Ram Is Auctioning Its First 900-HP Rumble Bee SRT — and Every Dollar Goes to Charity
The one-off truck gets a Direct Connection supercharger and reaches its buyer months before regular deliveries begin. It crosses the block with a custom 2005 Ram SRT-10 on the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
Ram will hand the first customer-bound 2027 Rumble Bee SRT to whoever bids highest at Barrett-Jackson's Las Vegas sale on September 11, and the truck comes with a stablemate: a Viper-powered 2005 Ram SRT-10 rebuilt by RealTruck. The two cross the block as a single lot, and every dollar of the hammer price goes to charity.
The sale is scheduled for roughly 3:30 p.m. PDT in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, with UFC boss Dana White joining Barrett-Jackson CEO Craig Jackson on the podium. Barrett-Jackson is waiving its fees and commissions. Folds of Honor, which funds scholarships for the families of fallen and disabled service members and first responders, is the main beneficiary, with a share also flowing to Hispanic charities through the UFC Foundation. The winning bidder gets a VIP package to a future UFC event as part of the deal.
The date is not an accident. The auction falls on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and the partners are framing the sale as a tribute to the first responders and military personnel who answered the call that day and in the years since.
What the buyer actually gets
The Rumble Bee SRT is the flagship of a four-truck lineup Ram unveiled this summer, and the version on the block is the first retail-production example built. Stock, it runs the 777-hp, 680-lb-ft supercharged 6.2-liter Hellcat Hemi with a claimed 3.4-second 0-60 time and an 11.6-second quarter-mile. The auction truck goes further: Direct Connection's 3.0-liter supercharger kit is slated to push output past 900 hp, paired with a Magnaflow stainless cat-back exhaust.
The bodywork is hand-painted in a two-tone split of Molten Red Pearl over Diamond Black Crystal Pearl, with matching red bedside graphics, black flares, a black center hood stripe, satin-black 22-inch wheels, and a red "RAM" grille badge over red Brembo calipers. A numbered console badge certifies the one-off build. Ram describes these as planned details, so the finished truck may differ from the renderings released so far.
The 2005 SRT-10 keeps its 500-hp 8.3-liter V10 lifted from the Dodge Viper. ProMotorsports built it with input from Mark Trostle, who runs design for Ram, SRT, and Mopar, and RealTruck dressed it in a yellow-over-black scheme with Viper graphics, yellow-accented Alea leather, PowerStep running boards, a roll-up tonneau, and Husky Liners. RealTruck says this SRT-10 served as the design cue for the new Rumble Bee it's paired with.
Why the pairing matters
The SRT-10 is still the yardstick for street trucks. In February 2004, a stock example averaged 154.587 mph over a flying kilometer at Chrysler's Chelsea proving grounds, a Guinness record for production pickups that Stellantis says still stands. Ram's stated target for the Rumble Bee SRT is 170 mph, and the company has said it hopes to beat that figure in testing.
There is a pricing angle too. Ram's regular Rumble Bee SRT lists at $97,790 including a $2,795 destination charge, $5,000 below the 2027 TRX, and retail deliveries aren't due until the first half of 2027. The Las Vegas buyer gets theirs months before regular examples reach showrooms, with a 900-plus-hp upgrade already installed.
For a sense of scale, Ram's previous VIN 001 charity sale, the first 2021 TRX Launch Edition, brought $410,000 at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale in 2021, roughly four times its sticker. A two-truck lot with Dana White working the room and a 9/11 anniversary behind it should aim higher.
The auction runs September 10-12 and will air on History and FYI, with a livestream on Barrett-Jackson.com. Ram hasn't said whether the production Rumble Bee SRT will offer the Direct Connection supercharger kit as a dealer-installed option.
