The 2010 Dodge Challenger with it’s HEMI engine is striking. History is repeating itself with the Challenger being offered in the stunning color known as plum crazy. The experience of handling the power behind one of these is almost as exhilarating as the color purple that shares its predecessor roots. Its hard to describe in words how the design captures your undivided attention.

The lines are on the Challenger make it one of the best looking reincarnations amongst its com-padres the Camaro and Mustang. The saying looks aren’t everything does not apply here.

What is so special about plum crazy? Its just a color that was once available in the past, but what it does is transcends time to the days when you saw the capabilities of an american car company just dominate. It was a time that anyone today under 35 didn’t experience, or did they. Perhaps a family member shared stories of their time spent working at one of the big 3, so in that sense it may seem like that of a legend.

Detroit is all about bringing it, and they are clearly doing just that with the Challenger. This is an example of something you won’t get from an italian car maker, or a japanese car maker, this is a car built in your backyard, and literally you can find the evidence tucked away in garages all over Detroit. If you ever had the chance to visit the Woodward Dream Cruise you would see not only the cars that shaped this era, and now the future, but the people who made it all happen.

The brilliant people who put their talent to work back in the day are still around, still passionate and they are what made these car companies successful. They occasionally surface and share all sorts of details. Things like how they implemented or tested ideas for a new design and how it all came together in the end.

These cars are the history and what provided the passion to build companies like Ford, GM, and Chrysler. It was people who loved their job, bragged about their job, and lived their job. The decision to reenact these cars indicates the companies want to revive the spirit. Owning a Challenger back then, you know it was made by hard working American’s, making a living wage. Lets hope that the focus on bringing these cars back also means bringing Detroit back so future successes are built upon the foundations that were established there decades ago.