The Ringbothers 1969 Dodge Charger ‘Tusk’ Is A 1,000 HP Hellephant-Powered Animal

By Gary Gastelu |

Oct 31, 2023

This Charger is ready to live up to its name.

The renowned Ringbrothers custom car shop brought a 1969 Dodge Charger to the SEMA Show with a monster under its hood.

The “Black to the Future” coupe is nicknamed ‘Tusk’ and powered by a 1,000 hp version of the Mopar Hellephant 426 cubic-inch supercharged V8 crate engine.

The motor sends 950 lb-ft of torque to a Strange Engineering Ford 9-inch rear through a Bowler TREMEC T-56 Magnum six-speed manual and a QA1 REV Series custom carbon-fiber driveshaft.

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From there it gets to the pavement via a set of unique HRE wheels wearing Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires.

The chassis is entirely modern, with the front wheels pushed forward for improved handling and Fox coilover shocks all around its fully independent suspension.

Baer six-piston brakes handle the stopping, which is made easier by the extensive use of lightweight carbon fiber body panels and fender vents to help keep the discs cool.

Inside, the center console has been replaced with a carbon fiber piece and the instrument cluster equipped with retro-modern Dakota Digital gauges.

â€œPerformance and design shaped this build. It really shows what can be accomplished when cutting-edge techniques work in tandem with painstaking levels of detail and imagination,â€ Ringbrothers co-owner Mike Ring said.

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â€œThe second-gen Charger is one of those cars thatâ€™s so iconic as the zenith of American muscle car styling and performance, and thatâ€™s what we set out to replicate with this build.”

Ringbrothers didn’t reveal a price, but its full builds often cost several hundred thousand dollars and this one took 5,000 man-hours to build.