We’ve been accustomed to seeing Eric Yost tearing up both Drag Week and the Hot Rod Top Speed Challenge in the third gen Pontiac Firebird known as the “Dirty Bird”. While that thing was no beauty contest winner, it won Drag Week and the Hot Rod Top Speed Challenge multiple times in its class. Last year, the car was systematically disassembling itself on the drives between tracks. Eric sold the car to a new owner so he had to come up with a new whip for Drag Week. This year he’ll be running the super cool 1968 Camaro below. With a single turbocharged small block, mean stance, and a wrap to make the car look as though it were just pulled from a swamp, the car is sure to stand out both at the track and on the cruises.
Eric has been working hard on both this car and other projects at his shop, Customs by Bigun in Charlotte, North Carolina. The engine has “a few” NASCAR pieces in it according to Yost and with that single turbo on it, we’re sure it makes some stupid power. Eric was hoping to have the car on the track this week for testing. Like virtually every other competitor, he’s under the gun to get the car sorted and ready but the meter keeps running and sand keeps running through the hourglass.
We’re excited to see this car on Drag Week (for the first couple days anyway, Chad and I have the New England Hot Rod Reunion to live stream Thurs-Sat that week). Eric has his trick trailer ready to go with some spare parts and most importantly the chilled keg of suds that probably won’t last but a couple of days with the rowdy group of maniacs that go out on that adventure!
FOR NOW, SCROLL DOWN AND CHECK OUT THE PHOTOS OF THIS BITCHIN’ 1968 CAMARO!
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Yost is an OG solid builder and tough competitor. He will most certainly be very competitive in class this year. Most Bangshifters would be elated to do even half of what he’s accomplished.
But hasn’t all this “faux-tina” business “jumped the shark?” What’s the point of spending thousands on a body wrap just to make your car unconvincingly look like a heap? Each to his own, I guess.
Too bad Chad and Brian won’t be making the whole DW ’13 trip . . . . They’ll be missed.
That means Bruab isn’t announcing? Boooo.
Oh yeah, the faux-tina
VOMIT. Seriously, they probably did 90% of the bodywork to make it wrap correctly.
Oh Fonzie… there’s a shark!
okay, the car is cool as hell minus the wrap-tina
Usually not a fan of Faux-Tina but this is badass
A wrap does not cost thousands, a few hundred at the most and with him being tied in with NASCAR teams, all those cars on the track are wraps, every team has a arts and media dept where they design, print, and apply the wraps, so again, Eric prolly has more in just the front tires than he does in his faux-tina
I have priced wraps, they are way more than a few benjamins but like you said, he most likely has some good connections! Car looks like it will sorted out in short order.
I’m sure it’s a very impressive car, but I just don’t get making it look like ass on purpose. His car, his money.
Incredible car! Should be a strong contender in Drag week, and the wrap, Love it! Best I’ve seen in a long time!
Oh yeah, Love the image on the Iphone! Sneaky!
It’s a Bad Ass Camaro because Eric is Bad Ass. I can’t wait to see it.
It’s almost like a brindle rust….. I dig it…
I don’t know about ” Faux-Tina”… we called these “Sleepers”… 🙂
Hardly a “sleeper” with those wheels/tires, visible interior “scaffolding,” stance, and all that power piping hanging through the hood. Just sayin.
(Read Tommy Lee Byrd’s book “Street Sleepers: the Art of the Deceptively Fast Car” to learn more about why Yost’s new car isn’t a “sleeper.”)
I’m digging the carbon fiber cup holders!
Now that is planning for a long haul in a psudo-rat muscle car.
Looks pretty cool – but if your into that look google – jeff Wilson 55 chev
Its a great looking 55 from down under.
Sorry, can’t hang, Great effort mechanically and certainly tons of work. Gotta admire that. But are we ever going to get over this faux patina thing. Looks like crap and they like it? Should be in Hot Rod. They love that crap. If it was a jeep instead of a Camaro it could have made the cover. Does anyone really think that look is cool? It’s a smack in the face to all the little guys out there wanting to build nice cars on a budget. Most of them surely have a nice paint job on their shopping list. Can’t fault the man’s obviously strong mechanical abilities, but I wouldn’t want to cruise it down the freeway looking like that even if it had a top fuel motor in it.
I have 2 cars that I race. One is nice and one is crappy. Everyone loves the crappy one better. Go figure. I love it and the public will too. What’s not cool about a rusty fiberglass hood?
The car is so mean. But the wrap-a-tina has got to go. You could get the real patina by sanding the paint off the car and set the lawn sprinklers on it for a couple weeks.
Looking forward to seeing it run.