The car you see here is nearly four decades old, pumps out 5,000 horsepower to the crank, flies the quarter-mile in five seconds, and hits 418 km/h (260 mph) in six. And the best part? We haven’t made it up! It exists and is road-legal in at least one U.S. state.
Rod Tschiggfrie, the owner of this Hurst Oldsmobile, points out that the taillights are perhaps the only thing that stays stock in this ride, while the whole body, chassis, interior and engine are new. There is no avoiding discussing the latter: a purpose-built 10.2-liter twin-turbo V8 under the hood can rev up to 9,000 RPM for lightning-fast drag strip runs. It produces around 5,000 hp (3,730 kW) on methane, but a smart ECU on board will tune things accordingly if you pour in another supported fuel.
Elsewhere, the extreme ride sports a full roll cage, a couple of racing buckets inside, and a removable fuel tank in the trunk. Firing up the engine is unadvisable without at least some kind of hearing protection – note the earplugs everyone is wearing in the video. Despite being woefully impractical, not to say downright deadly on anything other than the track, the Hurst/Olds is officially street-legal in Iowa. We can imagine noise pollution laws being quite lax there.
And how do you like it? Ever dreamt of driving to a grocery store and back in ten seconds total?