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\u201cIt\u2019s like a disease; the worse they are, the more I want them!\u201d Dwight McMinn is a self-proclaimed muscle car junkie. \u201cI\u2019m the youngest of 8 and my brothers all had muscle cars when I was growing up,\u201d he says. At 16, he bought an old small-block V8, rebuilt it, but had nothing to put it in. He eventually found a chassis and built his first project car. That was 30-some years ago … today, he\u2019s at the Mecum auction in Kissimmee with his latest ride, and it\u2019s a winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dwight and his sons are the muscle behind Mowear Motorsports, a business that began from their personal passion. \u201cThe boys have learned so much,\u201d he says of his 22- and 24-year-old sons. The work they\u2019re doing is top notch as you can see by their 1968 Dodge Charger restomod. \u201cIf it\u2019s numbers matching, always keep it numbers matching,\u201d says Dwight. \u201cThis is a real \u201868 R\/T,\u201d but it\u2019s gone way beyond stock in this project. \u201cYou\u2019ll appreciate the engine story; it came out of a 2019 Challenger SRT\u00ae<\/sup> Hellcat Redeye. The owner found a 1,400-horsepower engine to put in his car so he sold me this one. I even got to ride in it before the motor was pulled out.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mechanically, this Charger is all new; from the 797-horsepower SRT Hellcat Redeye engine to the 8-speed transmission, Wilwood brakes, Ridetech suspension, custom driveshaft and Vintage Air. But Dwight likes to point out that if you just looked at the car from the exterior, you wouldn\u2019t know what\u2019s lurking beneath the hood. “I had a guy walk up yesterday and said ‘This is the nicest car I\u2019ve seen here!’ Of course, I disagree. I know the tiny blemishes when I build a car … but it looks SO original.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The subtle upgrade theme continues inside the\nCharger with new gauges in stock locations, a pistol grip shifter and high back\nbucket seats to replace the originals; \u201cI didn\u2019t want anyone to snap their neck\nwith all that horsepower!\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dwight has an interesting philosophy about cars, \u201cI\u2019m driven by building them. Taking a car that should be in the junkyard\u2026 every time we do this, I get a picture of what we can do as people. When I get done, I think how cool it is that we can do this with these old cars.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His wife says, \u201cYou guys should get a TV show!\u201d and that could be a great idea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat Dodge has done with these, I\u2019m having so much fun building these cars,” says Dwight. “The power and the quality.  It\u2019s a blast to do it.\u201d In fact, Dwight and the boys already have their next builds ready to go; they\u2019re going to do a couple of Superbird tributes. \u201cOne will be a 6-speed, the other an automatic, but they\u2019ll both be SRT Hellcat powered.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As we talked, I could really feel his passion, for cars and for life. \u201cI was watching an interview with Carroll Shelby and they asked him ‘What\u2019s your favorite car?’ His answer was ‘The next one!’ I guess I\u2019m the same way.\u201d Dwight got closer to his next favorite car by selling his current favorite car Saturday, January 16 at Mecum Kissimmee<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt\u2019s like a disease; the worse they are, the more I want them!\u201d Dwight McMinn is a self-proclaimed muscle car junkie. \u201cI\u2019m the youngest of 8 and my brothers all had muscle cars when I was growing up,\u201d he says. At 16, he bought an old small-block V8, rebuilt it, but had nothing to put it in. He eventually found a chassis and built his first project car. That was 30-some years ago … today, he\u2019s at the Mecum auction in Kissimmee with his latest ride, and it\u2019s a winner. Dwight and his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":47166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2624],"tags":[2948,1144,561],"class_list":["post-47164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-owners-clubs","tag-dodge-classics","tag-mecum","tag-restomod"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/destinedtobuildmusclefeature.png","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47164"}],"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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47164"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47408,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47164\/revisions\/47408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}