Here's Where The Ice Charger From Fate Of The Furious Is Now

Here's Where The Ice Charger From Fate Of The Furious Is Now

The all-wheel-drive, spike-tired "Ice Charger" from Fate of the Furious is one of the vehicles. From the moment Dominic Toretto sped into the screen, flames spewed from his side-exit exhaust, the eyes of the audience were drawn to him. To overcome the bad guys and escape with his group, our hero needed this fully customised Dodge Charger.

The Origins Of Dominic Toretto's Charger

A 1970 Dodge Charger Road/Track (R/T) is the first Fast & Furious car. There was one hero car and at least three stunt cars in the production. The movie's close-up engine was leased from Chuck Taylor Racing Engines, although it wasn't the one that really powered the car.

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Just months after Dodge debuted the famed second-generation Charger, the bad guys in Steve McQueen's 1968 picture Bullitt utilised one to chase him around San Francisco. The 1968 Bullitt Charger captured the nation's attention. Then, in 1979, moonshine traffickers Luke and Bo Duke cruised throughout Georgia in their 1969 Dodge Charger "General Lee," getting into and out of trouble. Critics deemed the television drama 'The Dukes of Hazzard' as the most memorable use of a Charger ever. The Fast and the Furious, released in 2001, stunned the viewers.

In the first film in the franchise, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) opens a barn door to reveal a black 1970 Charger R/T. It's a drag-racing beast with huge tyres and a BDS blower protruding through the hood. Dom goes on to add that he and his father designed the car with 900 horsepower in mind and that he has been afraid to drive it since his father died. However, he uses the terrifying vehicle to dispatch the bad guys and win a quarter-mile race in the film's finale.

As the stakes in the world's biggest movie franchise rise, Dominic Toretto's superpower appears to be his Dodge Chargers. He customises them for whatever project he's working on, uses them as an extension of his own body, destroys them, then reassembles them. An expensive Dodge Daytona is featured in the sixth Fast & Furious film. In the seventh Fast and Furious, Dom constructs a lifted off-road Charger and parachutes out of a plane in it. In the new Fast & Furious 9 teaser, three Dodge Chargers can be spotted.

Dennis McCarthy Built The Fast And Furious Cars

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California-based Dennis McCarthy is the owner of Vehicle Effects, a custom car shop. He's also the Fast and Furious picture car coordinator, overseeing the franchise's automobiles since Tokyo Drift. Universal Studios gives McCarthy a list of stunt-ready custom autos for each new instalment of the Fast and Furious franchise, which he builds. Most hero cars come in eight or more variants, each with its specific purpose. McCarthy estimates that 50% of the cars he constructs are wrecked during filming.

The Ice Charger is a powerful muscle car constructed for the Iceland chase sequences. It is held together by a completely tubular open construction. The composite second-generation Charger body is one of the most extensive body kits available. The fenders are riveted to the body, and rivets are provided to line the windscreen and all window apertures. The engine rumbles, and a gaping side-exit exhaust pipe shoots flames.

McCarthy has settled on a basic drivetrain for most Fast and Furious movie cars because he wants to strike a compromise between building engines with enough power to pull off stunts while still being reliable enough to operate under challenging environments around the world. The Ice Chargers produced for the Fate of the Furious are powered by Vehicle Effects' standard 400+ horsepower LS3 V8 combined with a Turbo 400 gearbox. A sidewinder shifter is placed on top of the blocky transmission tube. A multitude of dashboard toggle switches regulates visual effects and the drivetrain.

The Ice Charger Is In A Museum

Many of McCarthy's designs were wrecked during the filming of the Fast and Furious franchise. McCarthy cannibalises the majority of the surviving automobiles, repurposing their drivetrains in future instalments. However, every now and then, a truly exceptional automobile emerges.

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The Celebrity Car Museum is located in Branson, Missouri. Over a hundred automobiles are on display at the site. The Velvet Collection, which the Velvet family amassed, is now on display at the museum. Kathy Velvet works at the museum while her son, Scott, travels the country hunting for new autos. The museum has a lot of cool cars from movies, including Toy Story, Jurassic Park, Inception, and RoboCop. On the other hand, the Celebrity Car Museum is dedicated to the Fast and Furious franchise. The Velvet family has a Fast and Furious collection with over ten vehicles from the movie.