Black Ghost - Hemi Challenger

[tom M]

i have always thought of this guy as a backyard hack,but he makes some sense here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...JxDdbwNSZwBmwg

[DW31S]

I know a stock ‘70 Hemi Challenger in 1970 couldn’t hang with the Silver Bullet or that Gapp & Roush Mustang in 1975. Could Pennington’s Corvette today through exhaust manifolds? Yes Indeed. Could a 1970 Stock Hemi anything through exhaust manifolds in 1970. No way. Hell, the SS/EA Hemi SuperBird Chrysler built for Jack Werst to beat Ray Allen’s Briggs Chevelle couldn’t run with the Silver Bullet. There were some damn fast street cars back then, and if that Black Ghost car is currently how it was in the 1970s, this guy is probably on to something. Wanna talk about another fast street car from that era, look up the “Mutt Brothers”….that Challenger wasn’t in the same league.

[1971ls6]

He is right on the money!

The latest thing on the Detroit streets is that he turned down 1.5 million a week before the auction

[GotGrunt]

I never heard of the car until it was publicized by hagerty & dodge a few years ago. Although the back story might be true, I highly doubt a bone stock hemi challenger “dominated Detroit street racing” as the hagerty headline said.

https://www.hagerty.com/media/video/...street-racing/

[cook_dw]

“He also vows to keep the car in the family and someday pass it on to his own son.“


So much for passing down to his own son.

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by cook_dw

“He also vows to keep the car in the family and someday pass it on to his own son.“


So much for passing down to his own son.

He gets no judgement from me.

Who knows what any of us would do if that much money was waved under our nose.

(On the other hand, my sister would kill me).

K

[cook_dw]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

He gets no judgement from me.

Who knows what any of us would do if that much money was waved under our nose.

(On the other hand, my sister would kill me).

K

I would hope I wouldn’t have made that statement and then sold later on. The green car will be sold for whatever the market value is when I’m gone. Wife gets the funds and she can do with it what she wants. Only stipulation is that whoever the next owner will be will cherish it like I and my father have. Sometimes money doesn’t mean as much as the objects memories it holds for that person.. I hope I can stick to my own morals as life goes on. But then again I don’t have to worry about someone offering me that kinda coin either..

[LT1vette]

Originally Posted by tom M

i have always thought of this guy as a backyard hack,but he makes some sense here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...JxDdbwNSZwBmwg

He DOES look, talk, like a hack for sure. But apparently he was on a Mopar magazine payroll, I never googled it.
He has some legit points, long winded for sure. But the car "appears" on the scene in the last 12-18 months(?). No mention of it with the Legendary "back door" cars when you see a write up about them. "Got my doors blown off by a black Challenger the other night, never seen the car before!"

Never saw it mentioned in a Royal Pontiac story, a Roush story......

[Lee Stewart]

Did the original owner order the car as we see it today? A Gator Grain vinyl top on a Hemi is super rare.

The Silver Bullet ran an A990 Super Stock Hemi which put out around 750 horsepower. The same engine that powered the 1968 Darts and Barracudas to 10 second quarter miles.

[DW31S]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

Did the original owner order the car as we see it today? A Gator Grain vinyl top on a Hemi is super rare.

The Silver Bullet ran an A990 Super Stock Hemi which put out around 750 horsepower. The same engine that powered the 1968 Darts and Barracudas to 10 second quarter miles.

Actually, the Silver Bullet’s mill was closer to 500 cubic inches. It was “poked & stroked” by Chrysler engineers and was also put on a helluva diet, as it had fiberglass nose, doors, etc. It was a freakin’ beast that ran through 4 Cadillac mufflers. It ran bottom 10s. The “Sudden Death” Mustang (Mustang II) was even quicker as it ran mid 9s. The Black Ghost wouldn’t have been a threat to those two.