What do you need to do to build a $3,000 race car? Well, that’s up to you. You can spend $2500 on nitrous for a very questionable four-wheeled gadget and hope that you make a few rounds…and we wish you the absolute best of luck with that. We’ll be somewhere down the track, hoping to get the ultimate photo of one of your pistons performing the ultimate “F— this S—, I’m OUT” moment for a killer cover shot. You can go find the most decent example of a worthy car for three grand and hope that your SN-95 or cheaper F-car will hold together. That’s not a bad way to go, but it’s not a safe way to go…if you are willing to trust the components. You might be ok, you might not be.

The Broke Bastard Garage decided to go to one of the safer routes: they are building their machine from the ground up. Their Chevrolet LUV is getting a small-block/manual trans swap, and they are starting the right way: by gutting everything that isn’t needed and hacking as little as possible to make the V8 fit happy. Kind of funny, since jamming a V8 into an LUV truck is going to require plenty of cutting. Check out the progress being made on the little rig by clicking the video below: