After buying the car, Jason learned more about its history. He found that it was originally built by Tony Ferguson of Casper, Wyoming, and it featured a nitrous-assisted big-block Chevy. The car ran mostly on the West Coast and competed on the PSCA circuit in the Limited 235 heads-up class. After Ferguson moved onto another project, the nitrous combination was dismantled and the car was sold as a roller. It came up for sale again, so Jason drove to Texas and hauled the car home to Indiana. He immediately started picking away at it with plenty of help from his father, with hopes of building an attention-getting street car. Jason and Gene worked out the details and got the car back into racing form while also giving it some extra detail work to bring the combination to the next level.

The car’s “wow” factor comes from a beautiful two-tone paintjob and a killer stance with aggressive, black-accented wheels and race-ready rubber. The minimal 150 trim is the perfect breaking point for the mint green and black colors, applied by Jason Ferguson at Tubby’s Customs. Although it looks like it could’ve rolled off the assembly line in this color configuration, the mint green is a custom mix that fits the car perfectly. The body is steel, with the exception of the fiberglass hood, and the car still has real glass windows instead of Lexan.

Horsepower comes from a naturally aspirated big-block built by Shafiroff Racing. It’s a pump gas crate engine, coming in at 615 ci, but don’t let the big displacement convince you that this big-block isn’t street friendly. It’s built with a conservative compression ratio that can run on 92-octane, and it breathes deeply through a set of Brodix BB3X cylinder heads. A custom-grind Comp Cams solid roller was added to the mix, bringing horsepower up a little more than the advertised 925 hp. This combination cranked out 984 hp and 874 lb-ft of torque at the flywheel, and Jason’s plans for nitrous will send the big-block into four-digit rear-wheel horsepower territory.