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This Tuned Chevy S-10 Laps The Pikes Peak International Raceway And Sounds Like A Freight Train: Video

Let’s say that you’re the proud owner of an aging Chevy S-10 pickup truck. You can either sell it or give it away, or you can have some fun with it. The owner of this 1994 S-10 chose the latter, installing a GM crate motor (aptly labelled Frankenstein), gutting the interior and prepping it for the track, adding some racing slicks, and tuning the whole thing to “run with the big dogs” — according to a sticker on the back, among other things.

The entire GMT325-based truck looks like unrefined and unabashed fun, sounds like a freight train, and “may wreck or explode for no apparent reason” — according to another sticker, which might or might not add five horsepower.

Here it is doing a few test laps at the Pikes Peak International Raceway (PPIR) — not to be confused with the Pikes Peak Highway, home of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb — in Fountain, Colorado:

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  1. A local guy here took a old NASCAR Truck the old Tide DW truck and made it street legal. It sounded like 3 trains.

    It was always cool to see it on the street. He even ran it on NASCAR Goodyear rain tires.

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  2. Apparently the owner doesn’t know he has a ’94 and not a ’95….steering wheel.

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  3. I always wanted to buy the same chevy, it looks superb for me.

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