Other than the lowered stance and the air dam up front, that looks like a pretty typical 1988-1998 Chevy pickup, right? In some sense it is because SCTA rules for the Production Pickup class in which is races are pretty darned tight with that they allow and don’t allow for aerodynamic modifications. This is the epitome of the flying brick and we love it. Last week when I re-ran a collection of my favorite trucks from Bonneville Speed Week 2013, reader Warren Barbee sent me an email with several photos of this Chevy truck, known as “Chock Full O’ Nuts” to me. I quickly jumped onto the SCTA website and checked the pre-entry list and saw that the truck is on the list and it is entered in the E/Production Pickup category. I then glanced back at the photos and saw that when they were taken the truck was running in AA/Production Pickup with a honking big block under the hood.

This naturally got me curious, so I went into the record book on the SCTA site and what I discovered floored me. This truck owns every record but ONE in the Production Pickup category and would anyone like to venture a guess as to which record is not in the grip of the truck? Yes, you are right. E/Production Pickup. Here’s the truck’s current list of accomplishments from the SCTA record book:

The E-motor record that they will be chasing was set at 135.134mph in 2012 at Speed Week by the Little Bit O’ Racing team. The only other records in the class are vintage engine records that could be on the team’s radar as well. Who knows! We do know that in E-motor, the truck will have between 180 and 260ci under the hood, so big RPMs will certainly be the order of the day and that 135mph record will certainly require that little engine to work damed hard to get there. It may feel like a Sunday drive for the team who has several records over or very close to 200, but as we have seen in the world of land speed racing, sometimes the “slower” records are even tougher to capture than the big dogs.

Oh, one last cool gearhead tidbit for you to check out. See the rear tires on this truck? Those as NASCAR rain tires! Yes, there is such a thing as the stock car guys will run on road courses in the rain. That being said, we’ve never seen them outside of a NASCAR pit area so it is pretty neat to see them bolted to this hammer of a pickup truck.

We’ll be keeping an eye out for the truck in impound and we’ll be keep you posted on their quest to essentially own the Production Pickup record book. Pretty wild!

SCROLL DOWN TO SEE SOME OF WARREN BARBEE’S COOL PHOTOS OF THIS TRUCK FROM A COUPLE SPEED WEEKS AGO –