What do you get when South Africa’s wildest exotic car customizers take on an old-school American pickup? You get a slammed, blacked-out, badass '66 C10 Fleetside that looks like it just rumbled out of a Mad Max scene — with patina for days and horsepower to match. A farm truck in the city? You better believe it.
These are the guys known for chopping up Ferraris, tuning Lamborghinis, and turning McLarens into weapons on four wheels. The Race Speed Shop crew aren't afraid to mess with the world’s most expensive metal. So when a customer dropped off this weathered Chevy, the plan was simple: clean it up, flip it, move on.
But as fate would have it, they fell hard.
Instead of a quick tidy-up, this C10 got the full treatment — Race style. Now it cruises the streets of Joburg like it owns every traffic light.
Forget vinyl wraps pretending to be aged — this truck’s patina is 100% legit, baked into the steel in Cape Town before it landed in Joburg. The team left the bodywork untouched, just adding their signature blackout treatment. Every piece of chrome was murdered out in satin black — from the door handles and badges to the fuel cap, grille and bumper. Even the taillights were darkened to keep the look clean and moody. To top it off, they added a Race Speed Shop ghosted airbrush logo on the doors, purposefully faded to match the aged steel.
Those old sealed beams were tossed and replaced with Jeep Wrangler LED Xenon headlights, giving the front end a serious attitude upgrade. The wheels were next. Gone are the skinny stockers — in their place sit massive 21-inch Forgiato F-Clinique billet 3-piece rims, finished in satin black and wrapped in 265/30/21 Continental Sport Contact 6 rubber. The ride height is dialed in perfectly thanks to a full custom air suspension system that balances comfort with presence, and lets the truck squat mean when parked.
The brakes were never going to cut it, so a Wilwood 6-pot front system was fitted to give this beast stopping power to match the new heart. Under the hood, the factory inline-six was yanked and replaced with a properly built Chevy 350 small block V8. It’s mated to an easy-driving 3-speed automatic, making this thing just as happy doing donuts in a parking lot as it is cruising down Jan Smuts at midnight.
Photos by Stefan Danil Kotz
This is what happens when you hand an old farm truck to a bunch of lunatics who normally build track-ready exotics. The result is a resto-modded, patina-cloaked, V8-powered legend that turns more heads than a Huracán in rush-hour traffic.
