Car Guy Magazine Car Guy Magazine Issue 1114 | Page 30

Dodge Rocks Dallas!
By Dale Jewett, Courtesy of FCA Digital Media

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f Sunday morning soreness is a definitive gauge of Saturday night fun — an
entertainment Richter scale, if you will
— then the Dodge Rocks Gas Monkey
Live party in Dallas set a record.
The Dodge brand celebrated its 100th
anniversary in the Big D with the brashness
and in-your-face performance that have put
a Challenger or Charger SRT Hellcat on the
wish list of thousands of car people this year.

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The odor of the day was burned rubber! More than 2,000 members of Dodge
Nation — some driving from as far away
as Massachusetts and California and
Manitoba, Canada – filled the parking lot
of Gas Monkey Live. That’s the newest
part of businessman and entrepreneur
(and Dodge pitchman) Richard Rawlings’
business empire that includes the garage
featured on his reality TV show, and a restaurant.
Fans willingly waited in line for their
turn to ride shotgun in a Dodge Viper SRT