In 2018 a friend told me about a dirty Hellcat with a trailer hitch on it. He saw the owner walking up to it and he asked him if he really used the hitch. The owner responded "yep, I use it all the time to pull my fishing boat and I get asked all the time about it" (the guy was retired for a few years at that time). He told his wife 3 years earlier that he really liked the new Hellcat (2015). He checked one out at their local dealership. They talked about it and went to look at it. By then it was sold and the dealership wasn't able to get another anytime soon. (Remember how hard they were to get when they came out). When his birthday was getting close his wife told him she purchased plane tickets and wanted to take him somewhere for his birthday. They traveled half way across the country and when they landed, there was someone there to pick them up (salesman). He took them back to the dealership so this lucky guy could do the paperwork on his new 2015 Hellcat and drive it home.
He told my friend that he just loves the car and he drives it every day, rain or shine, on dirt roads, and through the mud. The only time he doesn't drive it when it's icy out, it's not safe in snow (Imagine that!! Who would have guessed!!). He also told my friend that he enjoys that car more than anyone that just puts their car in the garage and looks at it, his Hellcat is rarely in his a garage, it's truly just another car to him.
Everyone has their level of care they take with their possessions. We care for our cars differently than this guy and there's nothing wrong with that. I think it would be awesome to use one of these cars for a daily. When I finish my '65 SF, it'll see 7 to 10 thousand miles or more a year like my last build. After 200,000 miles I sold that one and it would still fit in at any car show.
