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SEMA 2019: Hulk Camino Big SMASH! Turn SEMA On Ear!

By Dave Cruikshank November 12, 2019
We’ve all seen pics of a chopped-up, El Camino rat rod floating around the internet, and we wondered what the backstory was on the car. As we got settled in Las Vegas last week, the first car we saw when hitting the floor in Central Hall, was the ratty, green-machine that had intrigued us so…

We met builder Chris Walker and his aptly named “Hulk Camino” built by his company ITW Hot Rods in Stacy, Minnesota. What you see here are the best parts of a 1959 El Camino. All the fat was cut away, transformed into a relatively small and much cooler version of its former self.



The starting-off point was a wrecked 1959 Chevrolet El Camino body. The roof was slid back and a one-off chassis and firewall were fab’d up to hold it all together. The thing is so low, hinged T-tops tilt up to allow ingress and egress.



Powered by a 400 cid, Dart block Chevy V8 and crowned with a humongous 671 BDS blower and two Holley 750 cfm carburetors, the “Hulk Camino” lays down a whopping 800 horses spinning a manual transmission, with Dana 60 rearend churning out molten stripes of rubber with ease. This thing is no shrinking violet either. It plays well at the dragstrip as too, snapping off sub-13 second runs at 125 mph at will.



Chris told Rod Authority that ITW Hot Rods has a 1957 Chevy Nomad in the pipeline, and it will be cut-of-the-same-cloth as the Hulk-Camino. Stay tuned to Power Automedia for more details.

 

The video:
https://www.dragzine.com/features/se...n-sema-on-ear/

 

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11.14.2019

Across the Country and Back for a Week in Vegas, SEMA 2019.

Our driver Chris just arrived back home in the parking lot as this is being written. Every year, the SEMA Show is a tremendous challenge, and even more fun. We are a small company, and the logistics of transporting our crew, customers, and 15 cars across the country and back is intimidating. We have been attending SEMA since 1998, and the show has continued to grow, and so have we.

This year, we introduced the world to our newest Factory Five, the Speedstar. We also gave a sneak peek at our F9 Hypercar chassis. You can read more about the Speedstar on our website, and also see photos and videos from the 2019 SEMA Show.


Dave Smith
President




Dave Smith with PowerNation's Pat Topolinski.



SEMA Show 2019 Photos & Videos!

The 2019 SEMA Show was the biggest and busiest one yet! We had two booths (one indoor and one outdoor), caught up with lots of friends like NASCAR's Joey Logano, All Girls Garage's Cristy Lee, and PowerNation's Pat Topolinki, and spent four days discussing the latest Factory Fives with customers. SEMA has become a huge customer gathering as many of friends go back more than 20 years! Check out photos and videos from the event here.

 

https://www.factoryfive.com/whats-ne...dstar-11-14-19

SEMA 2019 Report with Photos and Videos by Dave Smith