{"id":86593,"date":"2025-04-05T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=86593"},"modified":"2025-03-31T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T20:02:00","slug":"why-dodges-scat-pack-sounds-so-wild-and-what-it-really-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/heritage\/2025\/04\/why-dodges-scat-pack-sounds-so-wild-and-what-it-really-means.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Dodge\u2019s \u201cScat Pack\u201d Sounds So Wild &#8211; And What It Really Means"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You\u2019ve heard it rumble, seen the badge, maybe even flexed one at a stoplight &#8211; but ever wonder where Dodge\u2019s \u201cScat Pack\u201d name actually comes from? Turns out, it&#8217;s not just muscle car slang. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jalopnik.com\/1819487\/why-is-it-called-scat-pack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This deep-dive from <em>Jalopnik<\/em><\/a> peels back the decades to the late &#8217;60s, when Dodge&#8217;s marketing team cooked up the Scat Pack as a muscle-bound club for gearheads. Borrowing slang from jazz culture (\u201cscat,\u201d as in speed), and riffing off Sinatra\u2019s \u201cRat Pack\u201d, it became an identity for Dodge&#8217;s quickest beasts &#8211; Charger, Dart, Coronet R\/T &#8211; all united by go-fast guts and bumblebee stripes. A must-read for anyone flying the Mopar<sub>\u00ae<\/sub> flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Jason Marker | Jalopnik.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Disclaimer: This editorial article contains information and links to a third-party site. We can\u2019t guarantee 100% accuracy (we do our best) or vouch for their other site content (nobody\u2019s perfect) outside of this link. Let us know in the comments if there\u2019s something you think we need to review.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve heard it rumble, seen the badge, maybe even flexed one at a stoplight &#8211; but ever wonder where Dodge\u2019s \u201cScat Pack\u201d name actually comes from? Turns out, it&#8217;s not just muscle car slang. This deep-dive from Jalopnik peels back the decades to the late &#8217;60s, when Dodge&#8217;s marketing team cooked up the Scat Pack as a muscle-bound club for gearheads. Borrowing slang from jazz culture (\u201cscat,\u201d as in speed), and riffing off Sinatra\u2019s \u201cRat Pack\u201d, it became an identity for Dodge&#8217;s quickest beasts &#8211; Charger, Dart, Coronet R\/T &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":86595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2622],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heritage"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ScatPackMeaning_Feature.jpg","social_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ScatPackMeaning_Social.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\/86593"}],"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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86593"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86601,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86593\/revisions\/86601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}