The other day I posted a 1965 Impala pro touring car that was pretty tough to look at. The thing was overbuilt and weird looking and just someone’s idea of what a high end pro touring car should look like. It was not good. This car is literally at the opposite end of the spectrum and many of you may have the same style vitriolic feelings toward this one in the other direction that you did toward the pro touring car. Why? Well the 1965 Impala we have here was brought back to life by the owner who pulled it out of a field and decided that he wanted to LS swap the thing and get it back on the road. He did that and added a turbo and then got obsessed with going faster and faster. The end result? A rather hammered looking but brutally fast Impala. How fast? How about 9.20s at nearly 150mph. Seriously.
The car has a stock bottom end 6.0L LS engine with a single 83mm Bullseye turbocharger which makes about 30psi of boost depending on the mood of mother nature. The engine wears 317 heads, has a Lil’ Johns stage two camshaft and makes some serious power to shove the 4.10 geared barge down the track with that level of alarm. Roll cage? Umm, he’ll get to that. The car has a 4L80 transmission that handles the weight and the power very well from what we saw as this thing made a bunch of laps at LS Fest right before our eyes.
