{"id":49259,"date":"2023-05-09T12:03:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T16:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=49259"},"modified":"2023-05-09T12:03:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T16:03:51","slug":"1139600_exomod-s-1968-dodge-charger-features-hellcat-chassis-carbon-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=49259","title":{"rendered":"ExoMod&#8217;s 1968 Dodge Charger features Hellcat chassis, carbon body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of companies build classic Dodge Chargers using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1135988_speedkore-built-a-hellephant-powered-1968-charger-for-stellantis-design-chief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original or custom chasses<\/a>, though ExoMod Concepts has taken a different approach. The Greenville, Pennsylvania-based company uses the chassis of a modern Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and then adds a classic Charger body\u2014made out of carbon fiber.<\/p>\n<p>ExoMod&#8217;s Charger body mimics the wide-body 1968 Charger, and thanks to its carbon-fiber construction it helps shed 400 pounds from the donor Challenger&#8217;s curb weight while also improving stiffness and rigidity. The resulting design, which takes 1,500 hours to complete, is around four inches wider than the stock Challenger.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"static-marker-video-player-primis\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ExoMod doesn&#8217;t stop at the body, though. The company also adds serious performance by way of a 1,000-hp upgrade for the donor car&#8217;s supercharged 6.2-liter V-8. The upgrade is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1119845_hennessey-has-1035-hp-package-for-dodge-challenger-srt-hellcat-redeye\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handled by Hennessey Performance<\/a> and includes changes to the fuel, intake, and exhaust systems, as well as the supercharger.<\/p>\n<p>No changes are made to the interior. The build also keeps the stock wheels and Brembo brakes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrapper first_wrapper\" readability=\"7\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" name=\"tccimg_100884053_m\" title=\"ExoMod 1968 Dodge Charger\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAD\/ACwAAAAAAQABAAACADs=\" alt=\"ExoMod 1968 Dodge Charger\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"first_image lazy\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"768\" data-url=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/exomod-1968-dodge-charger_100884053_l.jpg\" data-src-h=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/hug\/exomod-1968-dodge-charger_100884053_h.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/exomod-1968-dodge-charger_100884053_l.jpg\" data-src-l=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/exomod-1968-dodge-charger_100884053_l.jpg\" data-src-m=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/exomod-1968-dodge-charger_100884053_m.jpg\" data-src-s=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/sml\/exomod-1968-dodge-charger_100884053_s.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ExoMod 1968 Dodge Charger<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOur distinctive wide-body 1968 Charger is a modern supercar powered by a 1,000-hp V-8 tuned by Hennessey Performance,\u201d Rick Katzeff, ExoMod&#8217;s CEO, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>ExoMod&#8217;s 1,000-hp version of the Charger restomod is priced at $379,000. The company plans to limit production to just 10 examples.<\/p>\n<p>For buyers who miss out, ExoMod is considering a 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona as a follow-up and is currently accepting expressions of interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of companies build classic Dodge Chargers using original or custom chasses, though ExoMod Concepts has taken a different approach. The Greenville, Pennsylvania-based company uses the chassis of a modern Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and then adds a classic Charger body\u2014made out of carbon fiber. ExoMod&#8217;s Charger body mimics the wide-body 1968 Charger, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}