This was totally my idea!

[340EH]

This was totally my idea! (ACR Challenger)

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/10/25/mopar-rolling-in-to-sema-with-challenger-acr-ram-392-and-more/



ACR Challenger! sexy! but what were they thinking taking out the back seat? It's still gotta be practical for street use. Calling it stripped down with all that Mopar performance stuff on it and "bright pedal package" might be a stretch. Otherwise I think it's fantastic!

(edit) I suggested this in a feedback box on one of the Chrysler websites, back in 2009 when it bowed and you still couldn't get it with a man trans. I had envisioned a minimalist Chalenger with 5.7 and a clutch pedal with no unnecessary periferals like A/C and radio and a severe diet for the interior and sound insulation type stuff. but I think the lack of a back seat kills too much of the utility of the car, I'd cop to removable. This like so many others will be a premium on top of the already expensive top of the line model rather than the low dollar performance enthusiast ride it should be.

Dodge Challenger SRT8 ACR
For the 2011 SEMA show, the Chrysler Group's Mopar Underground team created a Challenger image vehicle with some cool ties to modern history. Influenced by the success of the Mopar Drag Pak Challenger and more recently, the Dodge Viper SRT10® ACR resetting the production car lap record at the Nürburgring Nordschleife track in Germany, Mopar Underground created the Dodge Challenger ACR based on the stellar Challenger SRT8 392. Some of Dodge's and SRT's best handling vehicles of all-time come with the ACR acronym attached to them, and the Challenger ACR is no different. The Challenger ACR is a no-frills homage to the original option-delete cars of the 1960s and 70s.

Equipped with Mopar parts, such as a coil-over suspension, front-and rear-strut tower braces, short-throw shifter, front splitter, cat-back exhaust, custom exhaust headers and a set of Goodyear F1 Supercar performance tires, the Challenger ACR is an animal that has as much bark as its cornering bite. Performance enhancements in the interior include carbon fiber door panels, front race bucket seats with openings for a racing harness and the rear seat is removed and replaced by a roll bar and fire extinguisher. An SRT three-spoke flat-bottom steering wheel, SRT gauge cluster, custom bright pedal kit, Mopar Drag Pack center stack and a carbon fiber center console finish off the interior modifications.

The exterior has design cues similar to those found on the Viper SRT10 ACR, including a white body, charcoal painted roof, carbon fiber hood, rear deck lid, rear spoiler and tail lamp surround and an offset flame red stripe that runs the length of the car. Red painted mirror caps and brake calipers, unique black painted five-spoke 20-inch alloy wheels and red "ACR" fender badging finish off the exterior design details. The white and red theme carries over to the interior with white accents on the carbon fiber door panels, red armrest bars with white foam padding, red door latch release tethers, red painted roll bars and red accents on the carbon fiber racing seats covered in black Katzkin leather.

Mopar performance parts and accessories on the Dodge Challenger ACR include:
(Item/Part number)
Coil-over suspension/P5155942
Front-strut tower brace/P5155950
Front-strut tower brace caps/P5155763
Rear-strut tower brace/P5155751
Rear-strut tower brace close out panels/68095921AA
Short-throw shifter/P5155458
Cat-back exhaust/P5155957
Front-strut tower brace/P5155950
Drag Pack center stack/P5155250
I/P and shift bezel kit- carbon weave design/82211876
Door sill entry guards/82211234
Mopar fuel door/82212406

 

[Dr.Jass]

As usual, a corporation takes a great idea and screws it up. The way they've made the ordering process for vehicles these days, you can't build one yourself anymore, either... every option you want is part of a "package". Oh, you want deep rear gears? Those are only available with a sunroof and satellite radio. I understand the reason behind options packages, but the days of ordering a 1-of-1 are long gone.

The last time I saw a dealership pull it off, I was in Atlanta. The Dakota R/T had just come out, and they weren't cool with the package--a laden-down pig of a truck. One of my co-workers bought one. The same dealership had several stripped-down Dakotas: 5.2 Magnum, 5-speed, 3.92 Sure Grip trucks. No radios, base wheels and tires, and they were all short-box standard cabs. The did have AC, but you can't give away a vehicle with no AC in Hotlanta. They were freakin' rockets--way, way faster than the R/T model (auto only, extended-cab only). For a few extra shillings on your new-vehicle loan, they'd install the MP computer, cam, headers, etc. They had a demo so equipped; having driven that and Andrew's R/T, I would estimate the dealer's hot-rod truck was probably a second and a half faster in the quarter if not more. I wanted that truck.

"So, what will you give me in trade on my '72 [the Black Bitch]?"

"Uh, we won't."

 

[71ChargerRT]

That must've been a sweet little truck! I don't fit real well in a std cab of that body style, but cool truck none the less! I miss my R/T

 

[340EH]

That is precisely the truck I took apart to upgrade my Fury I (less computer, cam and headers). It was a hoot and a half! I wish I could have kept it together but it just wasn't going to happen.

 

[Dr.Jass]

That truck was a scream. I'm not sure I'd have taken the Black Bitch up against it. God bless those dealer boys... they saw the need and filled it.

 

[340EH]

I think you can see the ACR decal I had made on the tailgate in the one picture. I pulled the AC, foglights, radio and found the ultra rare dakota radio delete plate relocated the battery and put in a hurst short throw with a Pistol Grip of my own design, gunslinger did not have one available at the time.

(sigh)