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Jeff Dunham Teams up with SRT for Project Ultraviolet

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The team at SRT is planning a surprise for the SEMA show. Fans of comedy and of ventriloquism have much to look forward to from the announcement that Allpar is covering.

Fans of Jeff Dunham have enjoyed his work due to the quirky characters he has put together. What they might not know about the comedian is that he is a huge car nut. Ever since he bought his first Hot Wheels in his childhood, he’s had a passion for muscle cars. That love and enthusiasm for high-powered cars is what brought SRT to his door step to ask for help in creating a new show car for the upcoming SEMA show.

Capturing the experience on YouTube, Jeff Dunham met with the designers at SRT to bring Project Ultraviolet to life. The concept began with a black 2012 Dodge Challenger SRT8 and the rest of the video follows the choices Dunham and the team are planning to make. Watch the first episode here:

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Get to Know SRT

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Street and Racing Technology, or SRT, has as rich a history as the cars it makes. The beginning of the company were in the 1950’s when Chrysler was looking to get more out of current cars. They had their engineers take a look at the engines and see what they could do to provide them with more power. The team succeeded, creating a new intake manifold system that featured long-tube intake runners. What this did was provide the means for the engines to ingest more air which then gave better performance. The name that was coined for this new system was “Ramcharger.” This was also the name that the team choose.

The next step on the history of the SRT name is in 1989. The location is the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. What happened to mark this day in auto history is that Dodge left the crowd in awestruck when the unveiling of the Viper concept car. People couldn’t get enough of the car and it’s muscle shape along with the 8.0-liter V-10 engine. With so much enthusiasm put behind it, the Viper was given the go-ahead for production just a few weeks later.

Fast forward to 2002 where Chrysler made it official that a new team was coming to give high-performance vehicles a kick in the butt. The Performance Vehicle Operations was created and along with it was the announcement of the Dodge Ram SRT10, the Dodge Neon SRT4, and the Viper SRT10. The badge that each vehicle wore was for Street and Racing Technology. In 2004, that became the new official name for the group.

Now is another time for the SRT team. With 5 vehicles under their care, they are looking to make sure that the SRT name means only the best. The Viper SRT is about to enjoy a rebirth and reclaim it’s time in the spotlight along. With the dedicated staff of engineers, it’s clear that SRT is going to continue to wow car-buyers for a long time to come.

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