V8 Smart Car Throws Down on the Dragstrip (VIDEO)

A drag racer dropped a big block V8 in a Smart Car. It's fast.

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Since the dawn of the automobile, tinkerers have been stuffing the biggest motors they could find into the smallest cars available. Sometimes it works brilliantly, like in the Shelby Cobra 427. Other times, well, take a look.

Someone dropped a Chevy big block V8 into this Smart ForTwo and now it’s quite the little rocketship. There’s over 50 years of potential engines that could be lurking under this amicable bodywork, so we won’t even guess. But what you can assume is that it’s making some ungodly amount of horsepower.

Turn up your speakers for this one.

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[via TopGear]

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