Plum Crazy!

This Hellcat Hunter Uses Factory Parts and a Kenne Bell Blower to Level the Competition and Run 10s.

- Brian Lohnes

We love the history of Mopar performance around here, and we respect it. We respect the fact that in the mid 1960s you could drive off a dealer lot with a snotty, angry, snarling beast of a street car that would do burnouts for blocks and mix it up with the other machinery of the day at the strip. Those days were magic, and they will forever be lionized in the hearts and minds of muscle car enthusiasts everywhere. One thing we cannot get on board with is calling those the “good old days,” because frankly, we’re living in the “good old days” and the 2016 Challenger Scat Pack of Illinois resident Jim Hayes is proof positive of that.

Largely stock aside from the addition of a Kenne Bell supercharger package, this thing runs middle 10s and kills Hellcats, classic muscle cars, and virtually everything else that rolls up next to it. Oh, and unlike the muscle car guys of yesteryear, he is not constantly running the valves, boiling the car over on a warm day, or stuck to a sweaty vinyl bench seat in the summer. Nope, he’s rocking factory parts from front to back including the air conditioning in this Plum Crazy killer, and that’s what really caught our eye when we saw him competing at the Hellcat and Scat Pack Shootout during the Monster Musclecar Weekend at Gateway Motorsports Park outside of St Louis.