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Smokin
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6/26/2001
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My god that was a awesome car. Did ya'll see how far that thing carried the front tires when it launched! I would love to own that car or a Charger like that! If I only had the $$$! I would even settle for a Hemi-Cuda! Anyone wanna take a guess what that Charger had in it? I'm thinking 440 with a Massive blower. Could have possibly been a Hemi. I thought the Shelby in Gone in 60 seconds was awesome, and it was, but the Charger wins the Crown in movies I've seen about racing,etc. 900 h.p and the 1/4 in 9.0!!!!! Dodge could definitly built them in that day!
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andrew
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6/26/2001
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I ahvent seen the movie yet but I sit through the preview when it comes on t.v. just to get a glimpse of it with the front end a mile in the sky. I hate the scene where it wrecks(I sob quietly each time!).
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GJoyce
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6/26/2001
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I haven't seen the movie yet, either, but I have seen on E! TV a 'behind the scenes' deal, and they showed the wheelstand from a different view. That car actually had a hydraulic lift underneath w/wheels, that moved the car up and down. So they could shoot some of it in slow motion, and the car still hold air... A little part of me died when i saw that the car wasn't actually doin the wheelstand.... Still SWEET ride..
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MACE
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6/26/2001
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Haven't seen the movie, without giving away the good stuff or the plot, did a rice-toy cause the wreck of that MOPAR beast, and prior to the wreck, did it eat alot of 'rice'?
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Smokin
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6/26/2001
11:31:19
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No, the Charger stayed in the Garage till the very end. A ricer didn't cause the wreck, but it wrecked while it was racing a very,very bad Supra.
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Mar
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6/26/2001
12:51:30
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I bet it had the infamous 426 in it. And i dont care if there was a hydralic hoist in it any car that can do the 1/4 in 9.0 can lift the front wheels. After it rolled they probably had to stop filming to shut it of because it was still running. I havent seen the movie yet but i heard it beats a rice.
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BigG
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6/26/2001
13:23:14
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Years ago I had a '70 Charger just like the one in the movie but it was green.
Sent the 440 though the radiator several times trying to immitate stunts like in the movie !
Until I got smart (yea right) and chained the motor mounts........
hehehe
Oh to be a teenager again..........
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QuadCab
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6/26/2001
16:08:01
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I saw the movie and it pretty much sucked except for the last racing scene. The Supra is actually a real life car someone drives around and you can buy it... http://www.suprastore.com/... then go to "Supras For Sale"
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MiKe x70x
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6/26/2001
16:57:40
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I saw the movie it was frigin awesome go see it its worth it.
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99DurangoV8
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6/26/2001
20:16:04
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In Gone in 60 seconds, a company built 7 (Car and Driver) of the GT 350s, 6 for the movie, 1 for Jerry Bruckheimer BUT each one was different internally, etc for different tasks they needed it to do so maybe they didn't really trash a beautiful classic car legend.
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Dirty D
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6/26/2001
22:17:40
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Hey, Quad Cab, did you see the same movie I did, I don't think so because it was BAD A$$!!! I'm going to see it again. SOME DUMBASS at work tryed to tell me that the Charger was a damned MUSTANG!! I told him it was a charger but he wouldn't listen. So I said lets go see it again, and who ever was right about the car, has their ticket paid for by the loser. I guess we're goin' to see it again. Gosh, I liked that green Eclipse too, But it had to get shot up by those Damned Japs, They're always Screwin' some shit up, Well at least they blew up their own Brand instead of the Charger.
Charger is wrecked while racing that BADASS Supra, It ran into a ........
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kicker01
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6/26/2001
23:06:34
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I saw it the night it came out (22nd) I gotta say that it was worth the wait. its too bad the charger had to wreck, they shoulda had it spank the supra right before the train shoulda hit the riced supra... LOL And it was worth it just to be out that night, it was a ricer mating season on the roads... All i heard that night was the buzz of the fart tips.
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Bernd
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6/27/2001
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Movies cars are nice...but real life is awesome!
http://www.magnumforce.com/cars/pro_street.htm
I remember when Ron was building his Charger...many many moons ago. He used to cruise it to the local Der Wiener Schnitzel on ElCamino on Santa Clara and then head out to the local drag races afterwards.
Nice guy, knows his stuff, and can build them pretty damn nice!
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roberto
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6/27/2001
02:07:57
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Hey Bernd, where do u live?
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Bernd
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6/27/2001
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I live in Texas. (Born and raised in San Jose, CA)
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Roberto
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6/27/2001
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oh no wonder it sounded familiar when you were talking about el camino and santa clara.
I'm from San Bruno right by the SFO airport.
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Brian Hughes
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6/27/2001
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The movie is great...I have seen it three times...I saw it about a month ago. The race scenes are really good. The supra is owned by craig liberman the director of NIRA..I know him personally..He bought the car for 17,000 and now he has a guy comming to look at it for 85,000. That is a pretty good profit for not having to spend a penny fixing it up. Everyone go see it and support movies about cars (it doesn't matter if they are rice or american muscle). I was told if the movie did good in the box office they would make a sequel. The movie only cost 39million to make and they made a lot more than that opening weekend...so number 2 looks good.
Brian
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XLTSPCL
Dodge Dakota
6/27/2001
15:21:19
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It's actually an 11 second car with a top speed of 145 and a 0-60 of 4 seconds.
Check it out
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Joey
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8/08/2001
10:55:37
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For Brian, I just wanted you to know he bought it at 17,00 stock. That was before he added all the nitrous, and racing equipment, he probably has more than 80,000 in it besides the 17 he paid for it. Go to http://www.suprastore.com/supra/fasandfurhol.html
And look at everything he's had put in it.
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Chris
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11/12/2001
14:06:08
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First off screw the rice burners i hate cars made in asia. I serioiusly doubt that Charger had a Hemi or 440 just to tear up, when the guy said it ran a 1/4 mile in 9 seconds that was probably jsut a line made up in the script that doesn't mean that car did it, but i don't dobt a car with a blown hemi could. I imagine they used a small block on universal motor mounts and stuck a dummie blower on it
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xplikt
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11/12/2001
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The Charger was nice, but I still think the greatest car in a movie was the DeLorean from Back to the Future!
Any of you see Exit Wounds, with that REAL nice El Camino in the beginning....??
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riceisnice
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1/08/2002
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all right all you dumb asses, i hate it when people trash rice, especially when its old farts.you guys have no idea what you're talkin about. there is no way that any charger could burn the track faster then that supra. that big block just aint got the speed quarter mile or 1000m, don't care you can take that dodge and shove it!!!
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riceisnice
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1/08/2002
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http://store5.yimg.com/I/supra_1671_2087653
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NeedForSpeed
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1/08/2002
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Oh Dodge was the dominator in drag cars back then since they used the hemi engines. Wonder why Dodge stopped making muscle cars. Its funny how Dodge dominated back then, then they stop and when they pick back up again w/ the Viper wipes out all competition once again. Pretty awesome. Too bad Dodge doesn't make a muscle car thats affordable like the mustang, camaro, or Firebird.
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litlpunisher
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1/08/2002
13:53:48
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riceisformice Um been to the track lately. The charger could easily beat that supra. 9 second muscle cars are common at the track. (second imports are rare. Unless sponsored and are professional racers. as for you weekend racers best i've seen is high tens. Just a little info from a dumb a$$
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NeedForSpeed
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1/08/2002
09:46:59
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Any 1 notice why there were no real muscle cars drag racing those rice burners? I goto the street races here in Dallas and there is a mix of riceburners, Trans Ams and SS Camaros and most of the time those dudes have NOS on their V8's. There is no way the little 4 bangers would keep up. Were the Japs sponsoring this movie?
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Nirami..
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1/08/2002
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First, they are making a sequel called The Faster and the Furious or something like that, but it won't even start being produced till mid 2003 because Vin Diesel is booked till then. It is going to pick up at the VERY VERY end of the movie (after the credits), where Vin is driving in a red and white Charger, going down a dirt road somewhere in Mexico.
Second Chan is a Chinese name. So that group of racers are not Japanese.
Third. I liked only the two chargers that were in the movie. It was sad to see the black one go though. Just imagine what that thing could do with a good install of NOS though. Heh.
- Mikel
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alex
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1/08/2002
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Anyone notice how that Charger comes to a halt in the movie and when it takes back off, it's only smoking the right rear tire? 900 horsepower my hairy a$$$$....... Show me a ricer that can "melt the piston rings" (as Vin Diesel says after he wins the green car) and then drive back to the crowd with no smoke, etc.
Oh and while you're at it, show me a ricer that will hit 140 (from a standing stop on street tires) and then skid to a stop in the equivalent to the K-Mart parking lot.
Oh- let's find a 9-second Charger that will sky-jack the front bumper AND smoke the rear (street) tires at the same time, not to mention the fact that Vin Diesel is able to hold his head up straight and grip the steering wheel with one hand. ANyone ever seen in-car footage of Pat Musi or Tony Christian on a full-boogie run? Both hands on the wheel, helmet slap-a$$ back against the racing seat, etc......
If the director/producer had spent a little more time at the dragstrip, or even at a few more street racing venues (Chicago, Detroit, L.A., St.Louis), he would've had a movie that was worth a poop.
Oh Well.
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Aaron
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The red car at the end of the movie is an SS Chevelle (looks about 1970) not a Charger. The motor in the Charger I think was a hemi but I'm not certain (didn't make a note of it at the time). But even with a hemi, there's no way that Charger would do 9.0 in the quarter with all that weight.
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Nirami..
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Okay, okay. I made a mistake. It looked like one when I glanced back from walking out of the movie theater and caught the back of it before it went inside the car to Vin.
- Mikel
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Nirami..
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1/08/2002
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HAHA! Now I feel really stupid. I just watched it, and I have NO clue how I could think that was a Charger. Oh well. Still a bueatiful car none the less.
- Mikel
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teamfast
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1/08/2002
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Guys, ITS A MOVIE!
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DeaPee
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I own a truck -- a 4-wheel drive truck -- I still beat people in their "rice burners" on the road. That's because they have 4 cylinders under the hood and they don't understand that stickers aren't what makes the car go fast.
Don't get me wrong, the local kids who drive around thinking their tinted windows and custom graphics make their cars go fast are annoying, but the cars in that movie were BAD.
I can't afford to own a 4x4 and a fast car, so I chose the more practical and got a 4x4. If I could afford both, I definately wouldn't start with a Honda. I'd start with something like a '92 Stealth DOHC 3.0 AWD with Twin Turbos. True, they don't make as much for that as the Hondas, but that car would smoke 98% of the souped up rice burners out there while it's in stock form.
- Dave
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Mar
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1/08/2002
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That whole movie was probably sponcered by the enviromentalists that want people to buy 4 cyl.
I cant belive that in the end they make the chager motor brake and then total the car. And a 900 hp charger that has the traction to lift the front end like it did would totally distroy the ricer.
I hope the next movie is a rice killer.
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greybeard
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1/09/2002
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Mopars were king of the wheelies back in the 60's!There was a rear-engine "Hemi Under Glass" 'cuda fastback that launched almost straight up! Lot's of time wasted in the air but is sure was a crowd pleaser.
Ramchargers Racing Team moved both the front and rear axles WAY forward on their Dodge Coronets to get better traction for the awesome Hemi - they'd pop wheelies quite easy, too. They blew away GM's and Fords and made history as the very first "Funny Cars"!
"Speedvision" channel has quite a few interesting documentaries on ALL the old muscle cars.
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greybeard
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1/09/2002
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OK guys, I'm showin' my "grey hair" here but give me the sound of 8 clinders of American Brute Force Big Block "thundering" @ 8K rpm's over the "scream" of a V-6 or 4-banger @ 12K rpm's anyday! It's PURE testosterone because you can FEEL it from 10 feet away...
I saw a black 427 Ford Cobra kit car (with side pipes) the other day and almost got a "woody" because it seemed to shake the pavement! I can certainly appreciate high-tech BUT the cave-man, brute force approach of these old muscle cars is still awesome! (I sure do miss my '68 RoadRunner!)
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MikeD
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1/10/2002
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Is the new Charger R/T still in the making? I think it was gonna have the old Hemi like it used to not sure though. Heard rumors the project was dead.
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Joey
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1/10/2002
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Call me crazy, but i like the old classic look with the muscle car power. Give me a Dodge Superbee with that 440 and ill be happy. It might not look fast, but there aint a supra on the track that can hang with it through the quartermile.
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PatH
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1/10/2002
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For all of you not liking the movie,...
It's not why we went to see it :)
If anyone else went to the LA auto show last year(Jan '01) they got the nice looks at the supra and the eclipse. I don't remember them having the charger there but It would have been nice.
BTW, the supra is 650HP, the charger 750HP if i remember the specs released on the movie site.
I'd like that in my Dak...
LOL, in any car...
PatH
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KenL
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As a new owner of a mild '70 Cuda 440, I fully expected to blow away just about every stock car I met -- foreign and domestic. Unfortunately I've been a little disappointed. I've raced my friend in his 1994 RX-7 (akin to a Japanese Corvette) and he beats me every time 0-60, 1/4 mile and top speed -- now that's a joke...his 160mph to my 132. Even the stupid Eclipse can give my car a run for the money (it wins 0-60 and top speed)
The point is that comparing a 70 cuda, or '69 charger to a new Japanese car is like apples and oranges. Musclecars really are dinosaurs and the best I can say about it is that it's pretty darn impressive that Detroit produced some exemplary cars 30+ years ago that are still competitive with today's technologically advanced cars. I wonder why they didn't pit a Viper against the Supra. (stock Viper blows away suped-up Supra)
The one thing that today's cars can't touch, though, is styling. My Cuda turns heads everywhere, while no one can tell a Supra from a celica. I'll take my old mopar anyday!
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juniork
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1/11/2002
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if you watched the movie, when they were in the garage the first time seeing it, you will notice the spark plug wires going through the valve covers. My knowledge tells me it is a 426 Hemi.
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