2004 Dodge Ram 1500 SRT-10 Base

*Fuel Injected 8.3 Liter Viper V-10 *Tremec T56 6 Speed Manual Transmission *500 Horsepower / 525 ft-lbs Torque *Dana 60 Anti-Spin Rear Differential *4-Wheel Power Disc Brakes & Rack & Pinion Power Steering *Clean CarFax & Southern History *1 of 1,040 Produced in Flame Red *Slate Gray Leather & Suede Bucket Seats *Air Conditioning & Power Seat/Windows/Mirrors *22 Forged Aluminum Wheels w/ Pirelli Tires *AM/FM/CD/NAV Infinity *Odometer Reads: 6,897 Miles This 2004 Dodge Ram 1500 SRT-10 is an absolutely stunning time capsule, with collector-grade low mileage! Few vehicles in the history of the American automobile industry have arrived with the sheer audacity and shock-and-awe impact of the 2004 Dodge Ram 1500 SRT-10. Part muscle car, part pickup truck, and entirely unlike anything that had come before it, the SRT-10 was Dodge's most gloriously excessive statement of performance intent - a vehicle that rewrote the rulebook on what a pickup truck could be and left the automotive world genuinely speechless and harkened back to an era in the late 70s where Dodge produced muscle trucks such as the Lil' Red Express and the Warlock. By the early 2000s, DaimlerChrysler had established its Street and Racing Technology division - SRT - as the in-house performance arm tasked with extracting maximum performance from Dodge's production vehicles. The SRT team had already delivered impressive results with the Dodge Viper and various car-based projects, but nothing could have prepared the automotive world for what they had planned for the Ram 1500. The idea was breathtakingly simple and utterly outrageous in equal measure: take Dodge's best-selling full-size pickup truck and drop in the most powerful engine available in the Dodge lineup. That engine was the legendary 8.3 Liter V10 sourced directly from the Dodge Viper - one of the most formidable performance engines ever fitted to an American production vehicle. In the Ram SRT-10, this thunderous V10 produced 500 horsepower and a earth-shaking 525 lb-ft of torque, figures that were extraordinary by any measure in 2004. The result was a pickup truck that could sprint from zero to sixty miles per hour in approximately 4.9 seconds and reach a top speed that earned the Ram SRT-10 a Guinness World Record as the fastest production pickup truck in the world at the time of its release - a title that announced the SRT-10's arrival in the most emphatic way imaginable. The performance credentials of the SRT-10 were matched by an equally serious package of chassis and suspension upgrades. Brembo high-performance brakes, a sport-tuned suspension, a limited-slip rear differential, and massive performance tires mounted on distinctive five-spoke aluminum wheels gave the SRT-10 the ability to back up its straight-line performance with genuine driving dynamics. This was not simply an engine swap - it was a comprehensively engineered performance vehicle that happened to ride on a pickup truck platform. The 2004 Ram SRT-10 made no attempt to disguise its intentions. Aggressive hood vents, a bold ram-air hood scoop, SRT-10 badging, and a sport-tuned exhaust that announced the Viper V10's presence with a spine-tingling soundtrack ensured that this was a truck that commanded attention wherever it went. The side exhaust pipes that exited ahead of the rear wheels - a nod to the Viper itself - became one of the most distinctive and recognizable styling signatures of any American performance vehicle of the era. Produced for only a handful of model years and in relatively limited numbers, the Ram SRT-10 is increasingly recognized by collectors and performance enthusiasts as one of the most significant and collectible American performance vehicles of the early 2000s. It represented a moment of pure, unfiltered automotive excess that is unlikely to ever be repeated - a time when Dodge had the imagination and the courage to build something that defied all conventional logic and delivered an experience u