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Ah, the good old days. My ride back in the '60s was a Chevy El Camino fitted with the (vastly overlooked) L78 engine: Basically, a Corvette 396ci putting out 425hp. Thus, it came badged with the SS tattletale, which was a bit surprising for a truck at the time. I did little to it other than a Hurst shifter, a set of Doug's Headers, some air shocks and a set of big, sticky radial tires. Turned the quarter in 13.2 seconds at 108mph.
But I noticed a company called Speedkore has produced a replica 1968 Charger dubbed, "Hellucination." It's a carbon fiber body with a Hellaphunt 1,000-horsepower supercharged V8 backed by a ZF eight-speed automatic. Talk about neck snapping!
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All CF with the Helliphant in it. Now THAT'S a speed demon. Neck-snapping and ground-leaving if it weren't for some (hopefully) aerodynamic design elements.
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Come on, this is a musical instrument forum! When I saw "Hemi" and "Hurricane" I immediately thought of the Mid-Century Chrysler Warning Sirens. Hemi powered (the original 50s Hemi) they were tens of miles loud and enough wind came out them that they were also used to disperse fog around airstrips: stories were that the sound waves would compress the fog cloud until it caused the moisture in it to rain. Try that with your "this one goes to 11" guitar amps. Can a Marshall Major cause it to rain? No, I thought not.
I'm thinking of a city-wide concert of Varese's "Ionization" -- tell the house sound guy I won't need to mic the siren.
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Needless to say, I grabbed my then main squeeze - an original Swedish-made Hagstrom Swede, dead-stock with all-original innards and a set of flatwound 12's - and high-tailed it over to his house in ten minutes flat... If you've never had the pleasure, forget what you think you know about Marshalls: this one's in a different galaxy altogether - big, fat, bold, and clean when the mighty 100-watter has long since gotten into the "tone zone" and a 50W Plexi is screaming like a demented banshee, with tons of headroom and none of the typical "British amp" tube compression at any useable volume; if Jim Marshall's intention was to build a jazz amp for the arena-rock/metal crowd, this was it... Oh yeah, did I forget to tell you that this thing is loud: my bud lived about four blocks from a major neighborhood shopping center, and his next-door neighbor - a guitarist himself, who owned a super-sweet silverface Deluxe Reverb and candy-apple red Strat with matching headstock - was able to hear it loud and clear above the din of early Saturday-afternoon Brooklyn traffic... I didn't stay in it too long - I had too much respect for my hearing - but I can tell you that it rattled every organ in my body that could be rattled, as well as a few that I always thought of as immovable, and it wasn't even breathing hard; I can only imagine what it could have done with a pair of 4x12" cabs... The only comparison I can draw from personal experience is when I took some test passes in a dragster a few years ago: the off-the-line kick that hammers you to the back of the seat, the seemingly unlimited power that just keeps coming on effortlessly as you hold down the throttle, and the tactile sensations throughout your body as you struggle to rein in this mechanical (or in this case, electronic) behemoth... Can a Marshall Major make it rain - no, but if there's anything else out there that doesn't require a pit crew to provide the same raw adrenaline rush I've yet to find it...
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