Photo: GAA Classic Cars
The weekend is just around the corner, and if you’re in the mood to delight your senses with some old-school, vintage-looking, award-winning hot rod, look no further than this here 1925 Dodge.
As the story usually goes with such builds, this contraption is a Dodge largely in name only. Sure, we have such a thing as the 1-ton 1925 Dodge truck rear end holding its back, and the powerplant (kind of, we'll talk about that later), but that’s about it. Pretty much everything else has been either custom-made or sourced from places that have little to no connection to Dodge.
At first glance, the build seems to have been designed to be on the aggressive side of things. Once one gets past the tame-looking Celery and French Vanilla paintwork on the body and wheels, one is faced with what seems like a very potent machine: large-wheeled, long-hooded, and apparently just ripe for a very fast drive down the road or race track.
Sporting smooth body panels, suicide doors, and a fancy canvas-style roof to cover the brownish-red Burgundy leather bench seat, the hot rod moves along under the power of a 440ci (7.2-liter) engine. The powerplant, controlled by a Torqueflite transmission, is part of the Magnum family of big-block V8s made by Chrysler with this displacement from 1965 until 1978. We are not given the specs for the engine, but back in its day, it developed up to 395 hp when fitted with a Holley six pack.
We’re told this particular vehicle was included in the top ten list of builds for 2006 by Hotrod Magazine. It can presently be found listed for sale on GAA Classic Cars, waiting for the right buyer to come along and bid for it when the sale opens in April. There's no mention of how much it is expected to fetch.
At first glance, the build seems to have been designed to be on the aggressive side of things. Once one gets past the tame-looking Celery and French Vanilla paintwork on the body and wheels, one is faced with what seems like a very potent machine: large-wheeled, long-hooded, and apparently just ripe for a very fast drive down the road or race track.
Sporting smooth body panels, suicide doors, and a fancy canvas-style roof to cover the brownish-red Burgundy leather bench seat, the hot rod moves along under the power of a 440ci (7.2-liter) engine. The powerplant, controlled by a Torqueflite transmission, is part of the Magnum family of big-block V8s made by Chrysler with this displacement from 1965 until 1978. We are not given the specs for the engine, but back in its day, it developed up to 395 hp when fitted with a Holley six pack.
We’re told this particular vehicle was included in the top ten list of builds for 2006 by Hotrod Magazine. It can presently be found listed for sale on GAA Classic Cars, waiting for the right buyer to come along and bid for it when the sale opens in April. There's no mention of how much it is expected to fetch.
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