The fellas from the Castlemaine Rod Shop are renowned for building wild cars, but maybe they have gone over the top this time. The blokes from rural Victoria have stuffed a '69 Holden Kingswood ute with a V10 engine out of a Dodge Viper supercar!
Not content with over eight-litres of ground-pounding V10, they also added twin turbochargers! Originally this engine was going into an XP Ford Falcon, but that car ended up with a wild supercharged V8 and is destined for duties on the burnout pad.
![When an eight-litre V10 isn't enough just strap two turbochargers to it. (image credit: The Castlemaine Rod Shop)]()
When an eight-litre V10 isn't enough just strap two turbochargers to it. (image credit: The Castlemaine Rod Shop)
Iain Kelly is the Viper engine behind the Creators Online.
What would you put a Viper V10 in? Tell us in the comments.
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Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.
For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.
Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions.
Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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