With steel wheels, a smooth idle, and a flat hood…there's little bark that hints to the bite of Dustin Hasse's 1970 Barracuda. We dug the smooth, low key appearance of the E-body, but the spooling turbo raised our eyebrow and when we saw it rip a 10.40 E.T. on Beech Bend’s dragstrip…well, that is what really got our attention. This fish is a seriously swift swimmer.

Under the Challenger's unassuming hood lurks a turbocharger that helps propel it to low 10-second E.T.s.

The '70 is powered by a 6.1-liter Gen III HEMI built by BES Racing Engines and runs on a steady diet of E85 fuel. A Holley Sniper intake manifold is force fed 15 PSI by an 80mm billet turbo. Dustin does the tuning himself using a MegaSquirt EFI. Dustin drove—yes, drove—his 10-second Barracuda over 200 miles to Holley MoParty in Bowling Green, Kentucky from Cincinnati, Ohio. But the trip was made more comfortable with full air conditioning, an A-518 overdrive auto transmission, modern coil-over front suspension, rack-and-pinion steering, and hydroboost power brakes. The overdrive trans makes the Dana 3.54 rear end much easier on the highway, something not normally associated with a 10-second E-body. Dustin made the bead lock steel wheels that hold 275-wide Mickey Thompson E/T street tires.

We caught up with Dustin immediately following his first pass at MoParty—which turned out to be the car's second pass ever since he completed the HEMI swap. We’re looking forward to seeing what the future holds in store for this wicked ‘Cuda.