We have all seen questionable wheel choices in our time... though, WhistlinDiesel just took things to a whole different level. He literally put horse and buggy wheels on a Hellcat. And yes, read that right.
We came across this absolute madness and seriously could not look away. The premise of the whole video sounds like automotive suicide. Taking a 700+ horsepower missile (that you'd typically see doing donuts in a takeover) and putting it on wooden cart wheels.
"I could have done that on this but I thought like 110 miles an hour they probably fly apart and then maybe yeah I would fly apart so we got aluminum ones," he said. Smart move, because we're all for chaos, but not so much that kind.
Here's the thing that got us; it's that this shouldn't work. At all. And yet somehow it does? The man's cruising around town, hitting drive-thrus, and people are confused. Which, fair enough. Imagine pulling up to McDonald's and seeing what looks an Amish drag racer in line behind you.
"It drives really nice actually I'm pleasantly surprised like it dude it's like a normal car it handles pretty good," he said while driving it. It just makes no sense. Physics should've been having words with his setup by now.
What really gets us is how people react. Half the folks don't even notice. They just saw a nice Hellcat and kept moving.
Now, before anyone gets ideas, please don't try this at home. WhistlinDiesel's got that "professional idiot" thing down to a science, plus the budget to replace whatever inevitably breaks.
We're still processing the fact that this actually functioned as intended. It's not surprising to see that there was some transmission and diff damage by the end (spoiler alert), but the wheels held up way better than anyone had any right to expect. Maybe we'll see some Alibaba versions soon?
Check out the full chaos for yourself: