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                                                  This 1968 Nova is a tribute to the past with the Yenko stripe treatment over the refrigerator white paint job . With its supercharged big block sticking through the hood and tubed out Pro/Street rear-end ,Don Yenko would call this a modern super car !         This Pro/Street special features a Chevrolet 8.1L 496 Stroker big block that makes  850+HP on 93 Octane Pump Gas.   It features a Scat Steel Crankshaft, Eagle forged H-beam rods & pistons. And the star of the show is the Weiand 8-71 Supercharger with a nitrous oxide injection system.   The big block is finished with a set of Brodix 360CC aluminum heads.    An ISKY roller cam with Crane lifters bump the valves. A polished BDS finned air scoop covers a pair of  Holley Pro-Series XE 950CFM 4...

  When this wild 1982 C10 went through a frame off restoration It was fully customized. Those touches include a powder coated frame, a tubbed bed with a wood floor and chrome hold down strips. At the rear a ZR-1 Corvette style rear roll pan was fabbed. Then the C10 was covered in Omaha Orange by PPG. The interior features a factory bench seat covered in grey factory fabric but it was upgraded with the Silverado option ,with pull straps, map pockets & chrome trim.     The factory dash bezel’s were fitted with Auto Meter Ultra-Lite gauges, And for control a Grant leather-wrapped steering wheel.   For the main attraction, we have a 502 big block with a polished 8-71 Weiand blower sitting on top of an intercooler.Boost is limited to 10 psi for the street but when it was dyno tested,it made 850 HP at 6,600 RPM with 794 lb.-ft at 4,300 RPM. The spent fumes exit through Hooker Super Competition ceramic coated Headers and 3-inch exhaust pipes.   Gears ...

      This 68' Firebird is a true beast ,sporting a 565 CID Reher-Morrison built big block Chevy with 1000HP.  Plus it has a 600HP Nitrous fogger  system on tap.. The big 565 is backed by an air-shifted BTE TH-400 Transmission  (with trans-brake).  It's been fitted with a Neal Chance bolt-together 4000 RPM torque converter.   Topping the 565 is a fully tuned 1200 CFM Dominator carb. that's fed by a Magna Fuel 500 electric fuel pump.         Keeping the enormous mill cooled is a massive aluminum radiator & CSR aluminum electric water pump . A complete MSD  ignition system provides the spark needed to get things going.  While a set of ceramic-coated Lemons headers scavenge the spent fumes .    The rear end is a Ford 9-inch with a back brace , inside we find a spool with a 4.30: gear set and hardened 31 spline axles. The rear end is swinging from ladder bars suspended by 3 way coil over shocks . ...

        This Sea-frost Green 1968 Camaro was ordered as a true Super Sport with a big block 396, then it was sent to Bill Thomas of Bill Thomas Race Cars in Anaheim, CA. There Mr.Thomas worked his magic on the 396.                   This car also has the Rally Sport hidden headlight package along with front spoiler, and the bolt on fiberglass Stinger Hood.     It features the Matching Numbers 396 block which is a rarity for a Bill Thomas car, because most of his builds had the 427 transplant. However, the original owner wanted to stay with the 396 and Mr.Thomas transformed Chevrolet's 396 into a sleeper big block that could terrorize any 427 on the street in 1968.   The 396 is set up with an Offenhauser Intake manifold with dual Carter AFB Carbs. A Comp Cams solid-lifter camshaft with the original Bill Thomas spec’s was installed during the rebuild .  The ...

  This 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Pro-Street custom is just amazing.  The build took over 4 years to complete with body and paint by Marx Hot-rod's.    The engine room features a Chrysler Mega Block stretched to 540 C.I. topped with  Indy Aluminum heads fed by an F2- Procharger. This combo makes over 1000  horsepower with the current drive pulley .                                               Spark is controlled by an MSD 6 BTM box and Pro-Billet distributor.   The cooling system features an Indy reverse flow water pump system that feeds into a huge four-core radiator equipped with dual Spal fans.    Ceramic headers and 3inch tubes expel the fumes. Backing up  that horsepower is a 727torque-flite trans.with a 35...