Title: The Mammoth: A 1,000 Horsepower Truck Built by Hennessey
The world of high-performance vehicles is full of surprises, and few are as astonishing as the Mammoth, a 1,000 horsepower truck built by Hennessey. In this article, we'll take a closer look at this incredible machine and explore what makes it so special.
A Thousand-ish Isn't Enough?
The engine revving sound that fills the air is unmistakable – a 1,000 horsepower truck isn't just a myth; it's a reality. But why does someone need a car like this? The owner, James, poses this very question in his video introduction.
"Car engine revving - A thousand-ish isn't enough? You still want more?" he asks, sparking curiosity about the owner's intentions. "Why? What is going on here? Nothing makes sense!" This sentiment resonates with many car enthusiasts who are always pushing the limits of what's possible.
This is a Thousand Horsepower Truck!
The Mammoth, as named by its creator James, is not just a car; it's an experience. Hennessey, the company behind this behemoth, isn't alone in creating vehicles with excessive horsepower that come with a warranty. The owner invites viewers to explore some of these exceptional machines.
"Today, we're going to talk about some of the sickest ones. Maybe learn something along the way," he says. James is joined by his friend Nolan Sykes for this adventure, and they embark on a thrilling journey to discover what makes vehicles like the Mammoth so special.
The World's Largest Shrimp Cocktail Truck?
Before diving into high-performance cars, we take a look at an unusual dream that James had – building the world's largest shrimp cocktail truck. His friend Jeremiah Burton helps him bring this simple yet peculiar dream to life with the help of sponsor The Zebra.
"Just imagine the simple dreams you can achieve with real money," Jeremiah says. "The Zebra takes the over-complicated task of securing coverage and makes it simple, almost as simple as dumping 25 gallons of cocktail sauce into a truck bed." With this truck, James aims to share the joy of shrimp cocktails with his community.
But Don't Worry About Spam Calls...
While The Zebra helps James with his dreams, it also addresses concerns about personal data. "The Zebra doesn't want your phone number and won't sell any personal data," Jeremiah reassures viewers. Instead, they focus on comparing quotes from over 100 insurance companies to make securing coverage simpler.
"How much shrimp is too much shrimp?" Jeremiah asks playfully as a way to emphasize how straightforward the process can be with The Zebra. They also reassure that their only goal isn't spam calls but finding your perfect policy by going to zebra.com/bumperto compare quotes.
Ranch? Gross!
When it comes to condiments, opinions are strong. James is not convinced about ranch dressing on shrimp, which Jeremiah finds gross but understandable given the Midwest perspective on such a topping.
Midwest Thing?
The term "Midwest thing" becomes a topic of discussion when discussing if there are creamy shrimp or any form of shrimp in the Midwest. It's an interesting angle that adds to the camaraderie between James and his friend.
Cars Sold by Hennessey
As they journey through vehicles, one name keeps popping up – Hennessey. The company behind this incredible truck is well-known for its contributions to high-performance cars.
"I don't even think they've eaten shrimp in the Midwest," Jeremiah jokingly mentions about the possibility of finding shrimp there. Despite the humorous comments, their adventure serves as a reminder that even with seemingly impossible dreams like building a 1,000 horsepower truck, hard work and dedication can make them a reality.
The Mammoth: A Legacy of Speed
In the end, James' dream of having the world's largest shrimp cocktail truck has been shared with his community. His journey into high-performance cars highlights the passion and innovation behind vehicles like the Mammoth.
Through The Zebra, viewers learn how to simplify securing coverage for their own needs, ensuring they're protected without worrying about spam calls or data sales. And who knows? Maybe one day, there will be a creamy shrimp version available in the Midwest, making it a dream more achievable than ever.
As James puts it, "So whatever your simple dream may be, start saving money and make it a reality by going to thezebra.com/bumperto compare quotes and find your perfect policy."
WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en(car engine revving)- A thousand-ish isn'tenough? You still want more?(car engine revving)Why?What is going on here?Nothing makes sense!(explosion)This is a thousand horsepower truck!Why? I don't know. It's madeby a company called Hennessey,but Hennessey's not theonly guys making stuffwith way too much horsepowerthat comes with a warranty.Today, we're going to talkabout some of the sickest ones.Maybe learn somethingalong the way. I'm James,this is the Mammoth,and this is The D-List.- (Nolan Sykes) Big thank you,insurance comparison site The Zebra,for sponsoring today's video.You know, life is about the simple things,which is why we took all the moneyThe Zebra paid us to make this adto achieve my simple dream,the world's largest shrimp cocktail truck.- (Jeremiah Burton) Justimagine the simple dreamsyou can achieve withthe real money you saveby using The Zebra tocompare insurance quotesfrom over a hundred plusinsurance companies.That's a lot of insurance companies.This is a lot of shrimp.(fly buzzing)Wonderful, tasty shrimp.(chewing)(coughing)The Zebra takes the over-complicated taskof securing coverage and makes it simple,almost as simple as dumping25 gallons of cocktail sauceinto a truck bed.- But don't worry about spam calls.The Zebra doesn't want your phone number,and won't sell any personal data.In fact, the only thingyou'll have to worry aboutis how much shrimp is too much shrimp?- (Jeremiah) So whateveryour simple dream may be,start saving money and make it a realityby going to thezebra.com/bumperto compare quotes andfind your perfect policy.- Whoa, shrimp? Hellyeah! Where's the ranch?- Ranch?That's disgusting!- That's gross, dude.- It's a Midwest thing.You guys wouldn't get it.- Midwest thing?- Are there, like,creamy shrimp out there?- I don't even think they'veeaten shrimp in the Midwest.There's no shrimp around!- It is landlocked, Yeah.- Yeah!- Do the Great Lakes have shrimp?- Guys, today,we're talking about cars soldby "performance dealers".Now that's companiesthat take existing cars,modify them to be faster, andthen sell them to rich people.Now there are a bunchof performance dealersall over the world, buttoday our journey beginsin a little town closeto my heart: America.Now let's say that you're adude or a gal in the 1960swho wants to buy a brand new Chevy Camaro.But the top of the line SS modeldoesn't come with enoughhorse juice for you.What do you do?Well, you can pay a visitto my friend Nickey.And no, I'm not talking about the mouse.Nickey Chevrolet was aChevy dealer from Chicago,and they realized the 1967 Camarodidn't have enough power, baby ,so they took it upon themselves to swap inthe bigger 427 V8 from the Corvette,something that Chevywasn't doing at the timebecause they thoughtnobody would buy Corvettesif the Camaros had the same engine.This is a thing thatlots of car companies do.The Nickey Camaro put down130 more hersie-burstersthan the stock Camaro SS,for a total of four hundred(comical squeak)and twenty plus five,i.e. 425 hursedeburs.That's right, guys. Thisis where we're starting.Four hundred and twenty five horsepower.(explosion)Now, Nickey wasn't the onlyChevy dealer with this idea.Enter the Yenko Super Camaro 450.They called it thatbecause, you guessed it,it made four hundred and fifty buff-asscounter-culture-ass horsepowers.These are two pretty cool Chevies.Alright, I'm not gonna lie.I think these are great Chevies, but,what if Chevies aren't your thing?Then allow me to introduceyou to my friend, Mr. Norm.So he took one of Dodge'ssmallest cars, the Dart,and slapped in one ofDodge's biggest pony makers,The 440 Magnum.He called it the Dart GSS,and it produced a prettyfricking solid 375 horsepower.You had Royal Pontiac who for $650would replace your GTO's 400 cubic inch V8with a high performance 428.They called it the Royal Bobcatand it makes 425 hurseburs.And then you got Bob Tasca at Tasca Ford,who swapped the Modified 428from a cop car into a 68 Mustang.He called it the KR8, or the "Krate",and Ford liked it so muchthat they basically copied itand turned it into the famous Cobra Jet.Tasca's Mustang made somewherearound 400 horsepowers.Speaking of Fords,I do suppose now wouldbe a good time to mentiona young man named Carroll Shelby.He blessed the worldwith a lot of horsepowerin the sixties, like theGT 350 and the GT 500,but neither of those cars compareto the most dangerous Shelbycar to come out of this decade.Of course, I'm talking about the Cobra.Alright, now, the Cobra was ateensy weensy British roadsterstuffed with a big, bad American V8.And most of them didn'thave seat belts, all right?And it evolved a lot through the sixties,but the beefiest boy thatyou could buy was the 427,and in 1967, before any of these carsI've mentioned on the list werein production, the 427 Cobraput down four hundred andeighty five horsepower.Yeah!(electrical buzzing)And if you're wonderingwhy I'm not includingthe 427 Cobra Super Snake,I begged and I pleaded with the monolist,Ow!Ow!It shocked me!To let me put it on thelist, but it wouldn't let me,because there were only two madeand one of them belonged to Bill Cosby.So, as much as it pains me to do this,the Super Snake does notqualify for this list.It's the seventies, baby.We're kicking it off with a banger.Talking about the BaldwinMotion Phase III GT,the modified C3 Corvettethat in 1970 put downfive hundred and thirtyfive hursepurse. 535!I feel like saying the nationalAnthem right now, you guys.Uh, but unfortunately, that kind of powerwasn't gonna last verylong into the seventies.The EPA released a patch thatnerfed all the cars in the US.Baldwin Motion and manyother tuning houseswere forced to stopmodifying cars altogether,and instead had to makebrown plaid wallpaper,and corduroy bell bottoms.But beneath the shadows of the underworld,a few brave souls in thatdecade tried to fight back.Take for example a Pontiacdealership called Mecham Motors.They figured out a way to disableall the factory restrictions,And then they added alittle thing called a Turbo.Now, federal restrictions meantthat they couldn't sell these cars as new,so instead they "boughtthe cars" from their "dad"and sold them as "usedcars", which they calledMacho Trans Ams.Oh, yeah!These were more powerful thanany American car at the time,and they put down anastounding 325 horsepower.But there was another place in the 1970swhere cars were allowedto be fast and stinky.A little prefecture, rightoutside of the Atlantic Ocean,called Europe.Now, a stock 1978 930 from Porschemade about 260 horsepower, pretty good.But a company called BB decidedthat that wasn't enough,so they made their own Turbo 911.And besides cranking up theboost, they also installedpop-up headlights, BBS wheels,And!A 44 Magnum pistol hiddenunder the driver's seat,because German millionairesapparently needed all of that.This is now my favorite car ever made.All in all, this BB gun PP carmade a pretty good threehundred and seventy horsepower.Pretty good.Yeah, but not pretty good enough, Europe.Alright, so a guy named Willy Koenigbought himself a Ferrari 365,and decided 300-ish horsepowerwasn't good enough for acar that looked like that.So he vowed to make Ferraria proper sports car againby slapping two Turbos on that wimpy 365and bumping the power upto 620 horsepower, dude.Top of the list, baby!That was just the beginningof the Koenig legacy.Now, a couple years went by,we're in the eighties now,Pac-Man's already happened,Donkey Kong's already happened,and Willy Koenig getting hishands on a Tesla Roadsterhas happened.How much power did big Willy-stylemanage to squeeze out of his super car?I'll tell you how much. Uh,how's 710 horsepower about much?That wasn't even close to beingthe highest horsepower carthat Koenig made in the eighties.But first we got to talk aboutwhat's happening in the USat this particular point in time.At that time, the mostpowerful Mustang that Ford soldwas making like 200-ish.Steve Saleen startedcranking out custom Mustangs,but he mostly focusedon handling and aero,but not straight lineperformance or big power.Thanks, Steve. I guess.At this point, my boy Carroll Shelbywas in a committedrelationship with Dodge,but the most impressivecar that they made togetherwas the 175 horsepower Shelby CSX.If you feel like you want tocry right now, that's okay,but what's not okay is losinghope, because I have a feelingthat America might make a comebackat some point on this list.And that comeback starts now,with the 1988 Callaway TwinTurbo C4 Corvette, boy!Callaway was busy making turbosystems for European carsbefore they got their hands on the 'vette,but when they did, theygave it the business.It was the most powerful EPA certifiedAmerican car at the time,putting down 382 horsepower.No, okay, it's not the mostpowerful car on this list,but it gave America hope.Now, Callaway did makean 898 horsepower Corvettecalled the Sledgehammer,but the monolist again insistedthat I do not include it on the listbecause they only built one.The monolist is very logical.It's a machine. For now.So this brings us backto our friends in Europe,who were absolutelythriving in the eighties.You ever heard of AMG? Of course you have!But before they were Mercedes'sofficial performance division,AMG was an independent tuning housethat customized Benzesindependently of Mercedes.And in 1986, they made thefastest sedan in the world,one of my favorite cars ever, the AMG(wooden thump)Hammer.The Hammer made a prettynifty 360 horsepower,but it looked fricking rad doing it.A year later, RUF meltedeveryone's faces and expectationswith the CTR, alsoknown as the Yellowbird,a modified 911 that technicallyisn't even a Porsche at all.It has its own VIN number.And even though RUF wastechnically a production car,I'm including on the list,because the monolist told methat I had to or else. Orelse what? I don't know!I'm too scared to ask!It was in my room when Iwoke up a couple days ago!How did it get there?The only reason I know about itis because it posted it on Instagram!Why does it have an Instagram?Anyway, the Yellowbirdmade 469 horsepower.Speaking of RUF, this next carapparently had a RUF engine in it.A little company called Gemballacreated a car called the Cyrrus.Like the BB 911, it wasa slant nose convertedTurbo Porsche car,and it was so powerful,and it was so cool,that Vanilla Ice owned one.According to Vanilla Ice,it made 500 horsepower,and I believe him because he's been on TV.You know who else you should believe?Me, because I've been on TV too!I think it's time that westep it up a notch. Alright?So now I'm gonna talkabout the gnarliest carof the eighties, and possiblythe entire 20th century:The Koenig Competition Evolution.Look at this fricking thing!Look at it! Look at it!It's a Testarossa, butit looks way scarier,and it's also way scarier,because it has a Twin TurboV12 that makes, get ready,one thousand hurspur.That's right, boys and girls,we are at 1000 horsepower,and we are not even in thenineties yet. What's the point?I was really excited to talk about the500 horsepower Saleen S351,or 600 horsepower Alpina B12 7 Series,or even the 700 horsepowerHennessey Venom 800,which is a weird name fora car with 700 horsepower.That's right guys, we're afew minutes into the video,And I finally said the H word.The Venom 800 was a DodgeViper with a Twin Turbo V10.The goal was 200 milesper hour, but in reality,it only went a little measly 197.But Hennessey was young in the nineties,and he's still honing his craft.Not yet ready to unleash theinsane beasts under the worldthat we know today. Justa few years earlier,he was working on thefirst Hennessey car ever,a very humble Mitsubishi 3000 GT.And this brings me to another revelation.I haven't mentioned any Japanese cars yet.And the nineties were fullof sick Japanese tuner cars,like the HKS Zero-R. It's an R32 GTR,but don't call it a Nissan.HKS removed all the Nissan badgesbecause otherwise they wouldhave had to crash test the car.Besides the body cat, and the exhaust,and the backseat that wasreplaced by a fuel cell,the Zero-R had a single Turbo RB26that cranked out 600 horsepower.And guys, I put it on the listbecause of swagger points.Now, if I'm mentioning Japanese tuners,I have to mention potentiallythe coolest one, Top Secret.They built a ton of cars,but the one I'm includingis not the B12 super. Theyonly made one of those.So I'm including their R34 GTR,that they sold it as a package,and it made a very not bad,still relatively unusable onthe street, 730 horsepower.Another sick Japanese car from this erais the Abflug Super S900.Is that a super? No! It'san Abflug S900, dude!The entire body was reworked,including the doors,And so was the 2JZ under the vented hood.But you don't care about the hood!You care about the 900horsepower that came out of it.Look, I can't include everyJapanese tuner on this list.If you want to see that video,let us know in the commentsbecause I'd love to make a D-listabout Japanese tuning houses.They're like my favorite.And if you like this video,please do me a favorand hit the like button.It helps let YouTube knowthat we're doing a good joband it'll feed this video to more peopleso we can make more videos.And now we're finally in the 21st century.So from this point on, weare only including carsthat have at least 1000 horsepower.Sorry, Brabus 900 Rocket Edition,but you're off the swim team.Come back when you've hit puberty.So let's kick this Y2K party offwith the Hennessey Venom 1000 TT.Now remember how Hennyreally wanted his Viperto go 200 miles per hour?Well, this one did that.And it's got a thousandhurspur, baby! Toot toot!But at some point, Hennessey decidedthat Vipers shouldn't be the only carswith a thousand horsepower.So he also made a 1000horsepower Camaro ZL1,called The Exorcist. Get it? The Demon?And then he also made a 1000horsepower Cadillac CTS-V.That one didn't get a name.They just called it the Cadillac.Oh, and also a 1012 horsepowerJeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk,an SUV that has absolutely zero businessbeing fast in the first place.It's a Jeep! What are you doing? Why?And of course, the truck fromthe beginning of this episode,the Mammoth 1000. And I alreadytold you how many horsepowerthis truck has! 1012. And guys,pictures don't do it justice. It's huge.It's not just Hennessey, though.A thousand horsepower isapparently the new normal,and not at all alarming!Lingenfelter Camaro ZL1, 1000 horsepower.Remember our old pals at Yenko Chevy?Well, Yenko is back from the grave!I don't know if they died.They're back from wherever they've beenwith a 1050 horsepower Camaro.You ever been in a new Camaro?You can't see anythingout of those things!The doors come up to here!Oh, what's that? Athousand-ish isn't enough?You still want more? All right, fine,Let's kick it up with theAMS performance Alpha 10 GTR.This R35 tuning package doublesthe stock power of a GTRfor a total of 1100 horsepower.Shelby 1000, first car on this listthat's modest, apparently,because Shelby is back, baby.And he brought a 1175 horsepower Mustang.Still not good enough foryou? What's wrong with you?Alright, how about the 2013 9FF GT9R VMAX."James, what is a 95FFGT9R VMAX", you ask?Well, it's a heavily modified Porschefrom a tuning company in Germany,And it makes 1381 horsepower.But you know what?Those are rookie numbers.A baby might as wellhave made those numbers!(explosion)A little company called Speedkore,good friend of the channel,I believe Jeremiah covered this caron one of his first episodesof Bumper to Bumper.I'm talking about their Dodge Demon.Not only is it all carbonfiber, it's got 1593 horsepower!Why is part of this monolist wooden?What is going on here?Nothing makes sense!Next up we got the CovertTuning Dynamics LP2000-2SVTT.What is this, Terminator?That's a Terminator name.This thing is a very heavily modifiedLamborghi-ma-shi Murcielago,that makes 2000 horsepower!(computer error noise)(fax machine beeping)What!And guess what, guys?That thing's in second place!There's one more left!So here you go,you sickos!Underground Racing isnot just a video game,It's a tuning company from North Carolina.If there's one thing NorthCarolina knows, it's fast cars.And they offer a Lamborghini Huracanwith something called X Version.It's a Twin Turbo setup thatallegedly makes not one,not two, but (retching)It makes 3000 horsepower! (groaning)Okay. Time out, man,I can't do this, I feel like Mick Foley.- Are you hungry for more HiLow merch?Well, have I got a shirt for you!Yota's Tacos. They're thedirtiest tacos around.Get it in black, get itin white, or get 'em both,because they're only$29.99 at donutmedia.com.♪ Give it the beans ♪♪ At Yota's Tacos ♪If you don't get the jokealready, go back to school,But, Toyota Tacoma, Yota's Tacos,They're the trucks we drive on HiLow.I really like this design,more to come, donutmedia.com!- Thank you guys for watching,I know we couldn't include every car,if you have a favorite car that we missed,let me know in the comments,we're going to post abehind-the-scenes videoto the Donut Underground.If you like seeing me lose my ****over stuff that I don'tthink should exist,check out this video where Italk about fast electric cars.I love you. Bye.(funky music)
