KHT Aftermarket division and racing team [1972 Dominator. KHT builds a Calvinator]

#1972 Dominator one off.
(Note - there’s precisely 0 quality points on the whole car now. Also we’re basing ourself off this - Click and we’re gunning for this - click . The years are identical, so it’s fair game too, so don’t tell me “going into the future by 6 years equals +3 points of quality into all categories”. Also yes, @Cncharger 's cars have +15 on everything if you’re wondering, so that’s a 2002 car we’re competing with :smiley: )

By 1970s KHT has started making a name for themselves, in great deal helped by the success of the Communitasia tuning packages and their moderate success at the racetrack, so in 1970 a client came up to the main office, requesting a repair of a Calvinator Model C from 1966. The car was in a very bad wreck. The owner managed to rack up impressive 600 kilometers in the car before crashing it off the road at 75 mph at a drag strip, while visiting an amateur drag racing event. The damage was extensive. The reason the owner did not wish to go to the Calvinator dealership was to avoid all the accusations of being drunk, and being sent to jail for 20 years for not having a special Calvinator permit (Since he bought the car second hand from the first owner, who drove it once and sold it immediately, before claiming “Nothing has been as great as Calvinator over the years. Now please take it away and PLEASE return my wife and kids. Last part wasn’t used in advert quotes for some reason”), which he found to be the most idiotic idea ever. The fact that rebuilding one could take years and cost millions didn’t sit well with the owner aswell. Whether he was drunk or not, we will never know, but knowing the Calvinator history, a driving God could pile the car into a wall while parking it, so it could all be a legitimate accident.

Sadly, as the work began and KHT has got in contact with Calvinator to order replacement parts, the reply was a cease and desist letter, with a demand of sending both the car and it’s owner to Calva city for interrogation and inspection. Deciding to do precisely none of this, KHT has offered a rebuild using KHT parts and custom fabrications. The owner agreed, which in turn resulted in Calvinator instantly suing KHT for trying to steal trade secrets of speed and performance. The lawsuit was dismissed once KHT ran the 300hp Mulsanne through the same track Calvinator ran their racing version of the Model C, the Lauriville, proving that they have nothing to gain in terms of speed, and that their stock car is already 2.5 seconds per lap faster than the legendary Lauriville.

The owner of the crashed Model C however took interest in the Lauriville results, the car that was so fast it got banned from the single make IARO-SCAR (because nobody else wanted to join the series invented by madmen) series. The main idea now was, that the rebuilt Model C should be as fast as the Lauriville around the track, while being easily repairable and modifiable.

First to go was the old front and rear bodywork, smashed to bits, replaced by some custom metalwork, finished off with a quad Monte Carlo left over headlights. The rear array was borrowed from yet not in production Parabolica and finished off with Adenauer taillights, and the six exhaust pipes (two on the left, two on the right and two in the back on the left of the car) got replaced by a brand new custom system. The whole car got stripped out, and all the unnecessary heavyweight materials got thrown in the bin to save weight. The same fate went with the archaic overengineered safety system, which got replaced by a simple modern one which allowed for the same results anyway. The wheels now were 1 inch bigger and about twice as wide, as well as being racing slicks, necessary for the track, the brakes were used from the Mulsanne supercar, and proper ventilation of the engine bay was arranged, to not allow the engine to blow up every time the driver decides to go fast for over 5 seconds.

On the engine, the KHT engineers realized that the 6 liter colossus just destroys itself at high RPM, so a new crankshaft, pistons and conrods were used, de-stroking the car to 5.1 liters. Complimented by new camshafts, carburetor setup, intake with an actual filter, custom exhaust manifolds and a tune to go with it all. A more civil and less deafening exhaust system was introduced, on the request of the client, so the car could do short stints through the city, where it would be deemed illegal, without drawing too much attention.

The less powerful (460 hp vs 540 hp stock), but now also lighter and better setup for speed car lost some of it’s top end (Now only 270 kph instead of 330+), but also lost 0.2 seconds of it’s 0-100 kph time (now 5.5 seconds), and managed to perform a 2.22:05 Automation track laptime, which was just a bit quicker than the ultimate Lauriville version of the Model C. The owner soon took the car to Gasmea with him, and was evading Calvinator employees for the rest of his life. His antics at car shows and track got a lot of attention from other enthusiasts, who could not figure out he make and model of the car since it no longer resembled it’s original Calvinator form, and none of the KHT badges were present. The crowd christened it “The Dominator”, which soon became the car’s official name in the KHT log books. The car survives to this day as the only true muscle car KHT has ever built.

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