{"id":29941,"date":"2019-11-08T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=29941"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:23:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:23:55","slug":"fast-finn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/owners-clubs\/2019\/11\/fast-finn.html","title":{"rendered":"Fast Finn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Passionate Dodge Challenger owners come in all different ages, genders and walks of life from around the world. The love of pure American horsepower and the rumble of a HEMI\u00ae<\/sup> V8 engine crosses all borders and speaks the same language among gearheads. So when we ran into Katarina DiRosa, who\u2019s originally from Finland, at the Carlisle Chrysler Nationals show last summer, we had to find out more. She was hanging out next to her stunning Plum Crazy 2010 SMS 570 Challenger R\/T. Now, Finland is known for its great views of the Northern Lights, the Midnight Sun, and its vast wilderness, national parks and ski resorts. Parts of Finland are also located in the Arctic circle, making it a very unique place to live. This Nordic country is also very harsh on folks with a lead foot, as speeding fines in Finland get calculated based on the violator\u2019s total income. So, if you\u2019re a millionaire and get popped for going way above the speed limit, you\u2019ll feel it in your next bank statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe that\u2019s why there\u2019s more saunas\nthan cars in Finland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Luckily for Katarina, who likes to drive fast, she made Newburgh, New York, her new home in 2002 with her American husband, Lou, who happened to be a gearhead but was more into motorcycles. Katarina\u2019s profession of being a trademark paralegal wasn\u2019t very exciting; maybe that\u2019s why she liked fast cars. It also helped that Katarina\u2019s father also liked cool cars and contributed to her passion. That\u2019s probably why she always wanted a muscle car but her other half tried to discourage her. Lou knew his wife had a need for speed and would probably rack up a pile of speeding tickets. To compromise, Katarina and her husband bought a pair of Harley-Davidsons and often rode together. Unfortunately, Lou passed away rather suddenly in 2011 and it left a void in Katarina\u2019s heart. She ended up selling both motorcycles for a down payment on a house as she moved on with her life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recovering from the loss of a loved one, Katarina went for a drive and passed her local Dodge dealer, Croton Auto Park in Croton-On-Hudson in upstate New York. The Plum Crazy 2010 SMS 570 Challenger R\/T she and Lou had spotted sitting in the showroom three years earlier was still there. She always wanted that car, but her late husband talked her out of it fearing Katarina would get in trouble with such a high-horsepower machine. Especially since the SMS 570 Challenger R\/T had certain modifications that included a modified 5.7-liter HEMI\u00ae<\/sup> V8 engine with a Lysholm Twin-Screw Supercharger, SMS Six-Pack Intercooler System, cold-air intake and a free-flowing SMS exhaust. These mods had the Challenger putting out 500 horsepower at 5,700 rpm and 500 lb.-ft. of torque at 3,800 with a mere 4.5 psi of boost. To make it even more fun to drive, it had a six-speed manual transmission so aggressive that first-gear launches would just blaze the tires. For Katarina, it made the car even more desirable to own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Katarina\ndecided to give the Challenger another look since the price had been marked\ndown dramatically. The supercharged purple machine had sat on the dealer\u2019s\ninventory for over 36 months and they were willing to sell it at any cost. Katarina\nstruck a deal with the salesman and drove the Challenger R\/T SMS home. She knew\nif Lou was still with her, he would want her to be happy regardless of what his\nmisgivings may have been back then. Driving the Challenger and going through the\ngears was pure therapy for Katarina and put a huge smile on her face. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deep\ndown, she knew her late husband would approve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now, Katarina owns not just one, but\nthree Challengers in various colors and options. \u201cThey are my babies and they\nhave boy names,\u201d smiled Katarina. \u201cI sometimes call the SMS 570 Challenger \u2018Purple\nBoy\u2019, \u2018Purple Beast\u2019, or sometimes I call him \u2018Pretty Boy\u2019,\u201d she laughed. \u201cMy other Challengers include a black 2012\nChallenger R\/T Classic with red stripes that I call \u2018Lou\u2019 in honor of my late\nhusband, and I have a blue 2015 Challenger SRT\u00ae<\/sup> Hellcat I call \u2018Thor\u2019, he\u2019s the\nfastest.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Katarina also resides in good company\nas she\u2019s an active member of a car club, Hudson Valley #845 MOPARS. These guys\nand gals organize community fundraisers, car shows and cruises with their\nlate-model Challengers, Chargers and other Mopar\u00ae<\/sub> machines. Between Katarina\u2019s\nthree awesome Challengers, there\u2019s over 1,500 horsepower sitting in her garage.\nWe\u2019re sure Lou\u2019s smiling right now looking down on Katarina and shaking his\nhead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Passionate Dodge Challenger owners come in all different ages, genders and walks of life from around the world. The love of pure American horsepower and the rumble of a HEMI\u00ae V8 engine crosses all borders and speaks the same language among gearheads. So when we ran into Katarina DiRosa, who\u2019s originally from Finland, at the Carlisle Chrysler Nationals show last summer, we had to find out more. She was hanging out next to her stunning Plum Crazy 2010 SMS 570 Challenger R\/T. Now, Finland is known for its great views […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":29965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2624],"tags":[2946,526],"class_list":["post-29941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-owners-clubs","tag-car-shows","tag-challenger"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/feature-55.jpg","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29941"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30053,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29941\/revisions\/30053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}