For 5 years, Dodge made the secretive and super-fast Scat Pack 1320, the quickest naturally aspirated muscle car Dodge ever built.
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The fog shrouding Bowling Green, Kentucky’s Beech Bend Raceway Park thickened, then turned to a light rain. With the starting-line action shut down at Holley’slast fall, I had slogged through the track’s grassy back forty to check out a rare car that snagged my attention: one of Dodge’s innocuous-lookings.
When it was introduced to the public in 2019, following the watershed 840-hp Demon, the entry price for the Scat Pack 1320—at $46,080—seemed scandalously low to those in the know. Comprised of all the salient traction technologies found in the Demon—line-lock, torque reserve, beefed-up axles and driveshaft, trans brake, aggressive rear gearing, active drag suspension, drag radials on special wheels—the Scat Pack 1320 was what even Dodge CEOdescribed as the “power-adder prep package.
With the Scat Pack 1320 already beefed-up from the factory for power levels well over 800 hp, it’s hard to imagine Billy Jack’s 1320 staying stock for too long. The dilemma would seem to be whether to maintain it as-is and get years of trouble-free, repeatable runs down the track, or to throw the kitchen sink at it. “We plan on keeping this car here stock,” says Billy Jack, before thinking better of it. “I basically got it for my father, which has been passed down from him to my son, Zack.
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