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A tubbed, twin-turbocharged 1957 Chevy is not where anyone expects to find refinement, yet this build from Bryant Boats and designer Eric Brockmeyer makes the case. An all-fiberglass body, an Art Morrison chassis, Wilwood 14-inch brakes, a twin-turbo aluminum Brodix engine, and a Lenco four-speed add up to a Pro Street car engineered to work as a whole rather than simply launch hard. Read on to see how every ingredient was chosen.
A 1969 Chevy Nova rolled into Roadkill Garage as a bare shell — and rolled out packing more than 1,000 horsepower. Hosts David Freiburger and Steve Dulcich built the entire street/strip package from scratch, then hauled it straight to the track to see if the numbers held up. Fans are calling it one of the show’s best comebacks yet.
A 1967 Pontiac Firebird sat rotting behind a Georgia dragstrip for sixteen years before Mike Finnegan pulled it out and gave it a nickname: the rubber duck. Six years later, this milestone episode finds the car running genuine six-second eighth-mile passes at the very track it used to sit behind. There’s also a quieter moment involving an emotional ride and a woman named Otto’s wife reliving old memories. The full-circle version of this story is better watched than described.
A 1958 Ford Ranchero isn’t the car you’d expect to see wearing a roll bar and side pipes, but that’s exactly what makes this Pro Street build worth talking about. Ford’s second-year hauler borrowed its facelift from the Thunderbird and offered up to 300 horsepower from a fresh 352 V8, hardly the stuff of drag strip legend. Someone clearly disagreed. Take a look at how this family grocery-getter got the full strip-brawler treatment.
Barrett-Jackson’s 46th Annual Scottsdale Auction rolled a deep run of rare Mopars across the block in January 2017, and one lot in particular had the rest of the docket looking over its shoulder: a 1970 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda listed as one of only fourteen built, carrying documented race history and national records. Here is what made that car, and the Mopar run around it, worth paying attention to.
A 1964 Ford F-100 left Dearborn as a work truck for farmers and tradesmen. This one has a chopped roof, a hole cut through the hood, and a flame job loud enough to be heard from the next aisle over. What makes 1964 the right year to start with is a construction change Ford made that year, one most builders never think about. Read on for what Ford changed and why it matters to anyone cutting one up.