Fast Five Dodge Charger is Jive.

The muscle car. Where to begin other than by drooling words all over the page describing in provocative detail what the credentials for such a title are. A muscle car must be bulging with style, oozing with menace and snarl like a wolf with a stick up its behind. Oh yes a muscle car must be many things including affordable, loud, fun and most importantly the engine must be the size of Montana and require enough fuel to drown an elephant. These factors have caused people to rally behind their particular poison with a devotion that the Catholic Church should be jealous of. This is exactly where the nineteen–seventy-something-or-other Dodge Charger from Fast Five falls flat on its face.

I’m going to get it out of the way now, no you wont find a Hemi under that bonnet. In fact you wont find anything with a Mopar symbol, what you will find is heresy, a Chevy small block. The problem has nothing to do with Chevy or Dodge products, the problem is that there is a Chevy product in a Dodge product. You wouldn’t order a Frosty with a Big Mac. You order a Mcflurry. Aside from the engine swap, the front portion of the car is made in a mold designed to mimic no specific Charger, but rather roughly imitate a Charger between the model years of 1968 to 1970. Oh, if you were wondering, the blower is fake too.