When you’re the chief design officer of a world-wide car manufacturer, and that manufacturer happens to be Stellantis—the international umbrella containing the beloved Dodge brand—being a car guy brings with it a gravitas that is a magnitude greater than anything mere mortals can imagine. As much as we’d like to think we have influence over the world of hot rods, we’ll never actually make high-performance production cars leap off the page and onto dealership lots like Ralph Gilles does. It’s his world and we’re just lucky to live in it.
Ralph Gilles, like so many of us, grew up admiring Mopar’s muscle car performers and watching Dodge Chargers in movies like and TV shows like . The Dodge Charger, specifically the 1968 model, had captured Gilles’ imagination
