All Chevy Performance Volume 4, Issue 47 - November 2024

For years, actually decades, we’ve been seeing automotive-related magazine covers promoting Pro Street cars with blurbs like “Pro Street Lives” and “Pro Street’s Not Dead.” Well, if they keep trying to convince us with those types of sayings to “promote” Pro Street, doesn’t that send a message that Pro Street is, in fact, on its death bed? So, to counter those cover blurbs, I propose we stop trying to tell everyone the status of Pro Street and just let it carry on the way it has for the past 45 or so years: existing without a real threat of ever going away. Of all the muscle car build styles, Pro Street always appears to be on the “endangered species list,” while in reality, Pro Street builds, like Gassers, are a…

1. FORGED MONOBLOCK The stunning NW105 5-Lug continues the exciting evolution in Forgeline monoblock wheel design. A five-lug version of their original NW105 centerlock wheel, the Forgeline one-piece forged monoblock NW105 5-Lug, features a split seven-spoke design with tapered angular spokes and pronounced chamfered edges that create a high-tech appearance on par with its advanced engineering technology and standard-setting performance capability. It is machined from a single forging of proprietary 6061-T6 aerospace aluminum and is currently available in 18-, 19-, 20-, 21-, and 22-inch diameters with a range of widths and offsets. For more information, contact Forgeline by calling (800) 886-0093 or visit forgeline.com. 2. SECOND-GEN CAMARO DASHPAD Classic Industries announces the arrival of the new OER reproduction of the Camaro interior dashpad designed for 1970-1978 Chevrolet Camaro models. Each…

This highly detailed build keeps the exterior mods to a minimum, which makes the brutal powerhouse and custom engine bay sheetmetal a real surprise. From the outside you’ll see a great stance, tucked bumpers, and 20-inch Schott Tomahawk wheels. Even the period-correct paint color choices add a friendliness to the overall look. Once you open the hood the whole story changes. A Nelson Racing Engines twin-turbo 427 is surrounded by custom-shaped sheetmetal. That powerplant makes 1,225 hp on pump gas and feeds it all through a 4L85E. Supporting the crazy power is an Art Morrison GT Sport chassis with Strange coilovers, a 9-inch with Tru-Trac, and 3.70 gears. @TavisHighlander TavisHighlander.com Builder: Sonny’s Speed & Kustom (Twin Falls, ID)…

Aram Aramyan is a farmer from Fresno, California, but he’s not the typical farmer you might envision wearing wire-rimmed glasses and jean overalls with a three-pronged hay fork in hand. Actually, Aram is a 30-year-old citrus grower whose family immigrated from Yerevan, Armenia, back in 2002 when he was just 7 years old. “After we planted roots in Fresno, I immediately became obsessed with American classic cars,” Aram explains. “As an immigrant, making friends at school was difficult due to the language barrier, so with my newfound love of American muscle cars my parents bought my brother and I Hot Wheel diecast cars to pass the time. I had a fairly big collection but the car I played with most was a LeMans Blue 1969 Camaro.” Fast-forward to 2019 and…

BluePrint Engines sits in a unique spot in the performance automotive world. The organization builds thousands of engines every year, which makes them a major manufacturer. But they aren’t churning out run-of-the-mill stock replacement engines built to a minimum viable price point and little regard for performance. But neither is BluePrint a typical custom engine shop where parts don’t get ordered until you put down cash and where waiting time to get your engine can be months or even more than a year. It’s true. We’ve heard the horror stories of working with some shops. Based out of Kearney, Nebraska, BluePrint Engines has set up an entire ecosystem that allows it to build high-performance crate engines on a massive scale that is unmatched in the industry. Unlike an engine remanufacturer,…

The fact is that not many people can say they still have the car they drove in high school, and even less can claim they bodyworked and painted that car in their high school Vocational Education class and then drove it to their high school graduation. Well, Joe Van Nus, owner of this 1971 Nova, and co-owner of Dutchboys Hotrods in Vicksburg, Michigan, is able to make all of those claims. “I’ve owned this car since 1983, which was my junior year of high school. Originally, the car was from Alabama and I bought it in PawPaw, Michigan. My dad and I went to purchase the car right after a snowstorm, so we had to dig it out of the owner’s driveway to get it on our trailer and haul…