Quite different from all the trucks and the toned American muscle that will be featured in this year’s SEMA show, what we have here is the Chrysler SR 392 Roadster. If you’d ask me, I’d say this should belong to Tokyo instead of Las Vegas with how it looks. But hey, it’s a Detroit baby even dubbed as a “Detroit roadster” (whatever the heck that is).
The design sketch might look funny since it’s inspired by a 1927 street rod design. However, that should distort the fact that this Chrysler will be packing the same engine to be used by the Jeep Wrangler Ultimate - the new 392 HEMI crate engine from Mopar.
So what’s the fuzz over the Chrysler 392 HEMI crate engine? It’s capable of producing somewhere between 525 - 540 horsepower with torque ranging from 490 to 520 pound feet depending if it’s strapped with a carb or an EFI. So it would give trucks and SUVs a lot of power and pull but imagine all that strapped on a roadster. Menacing.
Oct 30