Tired of Your Charger Sedan? Turn it Into a Pickup Truck!

Smyth Performance Will Convert Your Dodge Charger Into a Ute at a Surprisingly Good Price

Performance pickups truck fans the world over, are still crying over the demise of the Chevrolet, or Holden Ute, depending on where they were sold. Hugely popular as a performance pickup truck, the range was topped by the HSV GTSR W1 or SuperUte, its 645 HP 6.2-liter supercharged V8 nicked from nothing less than the Corvette ZR1. Ford also made an Aussie Ute. It ran a Falcon badge and a 430 HP supercharged five-liter V8.

Enter the Smyth Performance Dodge Charger Ute

Sadly, both those unibody Utes are no more. Holden is dead and Ford has also fled Australia. So the classic Ute is now confined to the history books. Or is it? well, not according to Rhode Island, US power shop Smyth Performance, in any event. See, Smyth specializes in pick-up truck conversions on anything from a VW Beetle, Jetta, or Golf to an Audi A4 and even the Jeep Grand Cherokee. Best of all however, Smythe’s Dodge Charger is probably the closest to the classic Ute concept.

Smyth is ready, willing, and able to empower you to convert any Dodge Charger built between 2005 and today, to a pickup truck at a most attractive price The $3,590.00. package includes custom-made aluminum panels for the load bed, prefabricated chassis reinforcements, new fiberglass side panels, a new tailgate, and a new cabin end too. The kit is finished by a set of Dodge Caravan taillights. Smyth requires a $1,000 deposit when ordering outside of the US.

All You Need is That Chainsaw!

A widebody version is also available on request. Conversion instructions come both on paper and in a video and all you need do is rent that chainsaw. For the rest, and depending on your donor limo, your Smyth Dodge Charger Ute can be powered by anything from a farmyard 292 HP 3.6-liter V6 to a drag strip king 6.2-liter supercharged 6.2-liter HEMI V8 churning out up to 800 HP. That would make it among the fastest pick-ups on the planet!

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Michele Lupini

Once a handy engine and chassis tuner, and a combative racer and rally driver, Michele took up the pen to express his passion for cars, racing and motoring over 30 years ago. He published South Africa’s go-to enthusiast motor magazines Cars in Action and Bakkie — some say against all odds — for a quarter century. In that time, Michele had a hand in nurturing many of South Africa's motoring media leaders. Today Michele keeps himself busy with his a range of international motoring media duties alongside his own theauto.page. And a little racing on the side.