Tredwear, makers of stick-on tire lettering, have built themselves a show car. What better way to drum up publicity than creating a wild homage to a muscle car icon? The internet loves this shit! Can’t blame em! The car’s known as the Scraptona, because, well, it looks like it’s made from bits of scrap metal. Looks like. Before we delve into the build itself, a quick history lesson.

In 1969 the Dodge Challenger Daytona took to the track in NASCAR. Ford were fielding the Torino Talladega with a rounded nose and smoothed bodywork making it more aerodynamic. It was doing well, and Dodge didn’t want to get left behind. “Hold my beer,” said the boys at Mopar and came up with the Daytona’s fully enclosed nose-cone and gigantic rear wing. The design worked a treat and the Aero Warrior became the first NASCAR racer to break 200 mph. The fun was short lived, however, as the powers that be changed the rules to ban the Daytona and Talladega in 1971. Boo hoo, our cars are too fast. Boring! Anyway, the Daytona became a cult icon in ‘Murican muscle circles and many, many replicars have been made since. None, however, quite like the Scraptona!

It was found on Craigslist and had spent the previous 28 years on blocks before being hauled out of the undergrowth and strapped to a trailer bound for Ozan Chassis Shop in Calera, Alabama. Ol’ Scrappy had been used as a parts car for other Chargers so it was missing all of its removable body panels, leaf springs, engine, and rear sub-frame. A lot of metal had been hacked off and transplanted into other projects over the years as well. A nice blank canvas then.

Ozan worked their magic on the Scraptona with a custom tube chassis/roll cage combo to underpin what remained of the body and an R5 Mopar V8 to spin the rear wheels. It’s a proper race-spec engine and makes around 740 horsepower in its new home between the Scraptona’s front wheels. Completely mismatched body panel colours may look sketchy by this thing is actually rock solid and needs to be considering the bomb that sits under the hood.