Plymouth HEMI ‘Cuda Muscle Makes Time At The Spa Classic Race

Apparently, there is a trend overseas with our Euro friends and the Mopar brand. Mopar muscle is slowly becoming a phenomenon that is becoming a large part of Europe’s road performance scene, whether it be Vipers in Germany or ‘Cudas in France. Our featured story, coincidentally, involves the latter.

That’s because the “Plymouth HEMI, ‘Cuda de Course” website has announced that the early HEMI E-body, built by the collaborative forces of AMMAS and Motul, has finished in the top 10 twice in the Spa Classic, American muscle going head-to-head with the dark, woods-filled track of the French circuit.

As the site tells us of Spa, the racetrack is far more challenging then Le Mans in the sense of its pitch-dark regions and sharp-winding turns. It makes it all the more amazing, then, that thanks to the driving talent of Mikael Osterg and a team of crew members from Peru, Venezuela, Sweden and Germany, that the ‘Cuda was able to take on the Spa Classic’s very best.

Up until the pro-touring trend started with some of our favorite American muscle classics, the muscle car genre as a whole was one associated far more with drag racing then road and track. With cool builds like our Mopar E-body from France, however, the wall between quarter-mile and endurance motorsport is slowly being torn-down.

AMMAS and Motul’s fast fish was also the fastest car on threaded tires at the Spa Classic event, as Mikael Osterg was able to qualify the ‘Cuda on the 4th lap with a 2.57-second lap time. The team also scored 6th place during the day race and 9th during the night time portion of the event, and the challenge for racing in the dark posed by the Spa track makes Osterg and company want to take on more night-racing sessions from now on.

American muscle is becoming all the rage in Spa, on the Autobahn and elsewhere throughout the Euro motoring scene. What part will you play in the multi-cultural, muscle car phenomenon?!