Redneck Racing C10 is One Red-hot Life-size Hot Wheel
No orange track can handle the 2,000 horses this fire-breathing 1966 C10 is packing under the hood.
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While we’re not smoking (yet), this 1966 C10 built by Redneck Racing is already burning up the Hot Wheels Legends display under the rising desert sun.
Designed and built by the father-and-son team of Dan & Will Robertson of Phoenix, Arizona, this fiery C10 “was inspired by Dan Robertson’s lifetime love of pickups.” The family collected parts over the years before setting out to build the beast. With the help of a few friends, the build was completed over the course of five years.
Under the hood of the Redneck Racing C10 is a 530 cu-in Rodeck aluminum block with a 1471 blower mounted on top and a 20-amp MSD ignition kickstart the truck’s heart. Output is 2,000 horsepower, which is several hundred horsepower more than any orange track can handle.
And speaking of scale ratios, the team scaled the C10, running “straight as an arrow” at 152 mph with a time of 9.35 spc at one-quarter throttle. The expected top speed is 200 mph, delivering a time in the high six-second to low seven-second range.
The C10 wears a set of Mickey Thompson tires at the corners, the front pair wrapping a set of Weld racing wheels, the rear smothering a pair of Centerline double-lock rims. A three-speed trans-airshift moves the 2,000 ponies to the 9.5-inch rear, and the whole setup weighs 2,900 pounds with the driver.
The only thing that surprises us about this C10 is how it hasn’t set the streets of Sin City ablaze already. We have no doubt, though, that a trail of fire will follow the monster drag truck down the quarter-mile.
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