Extreme Grip

Speedtech Takes us Inside the Build of This Corner-Carving Beast

- Samuel Lee Notte

IN MORE THAN 75 years of hot rodding, certain aspects of its offshoot genre, custom-truck building, haven’t changed: high style standards, innovation and a passion for showing off the finished product. Speedtech Performance, a major manufacturer of protouring suspension systems and ground-up builder of show-quality street machines, shares these ideals.

Primarily focused on customers’ GM muscle cars, the Speedtech crew developed a serious craving for a killer shop truck build, and an old, busted-up ’68 C-10 soon rolled into the shop. The crew had three main goals:

1. It had to be, first and foremost, a genuine street driver, comfortable enough for the boss’ wife to enjoy a Sunday cruise.

2. It had to be a no-holds-barred track shredding pro-touring muscle-car-eating machine.