The car is a handful and it's so much fun and it just loves taking abuse.
My name is John Krause and I'm at LS Fest X.
This is the first time that I have been able to make it, I've been living in Japan off
and on for the last ten years.
This is a 1964 Chevy Chevelle sitting on top of a custom C5 ZO6 perimeter chassis, drive
train, transaxle, all of the good stuff you get from a C5 ZO6 is inside this thing, including
ABS, even swapped that over.
From the fenders, we had to pull and cut those basically two an a half inches to fit the
315 series BFG rivals, which are great for autocross and then we also, because we are
running independent rear suspension in the car, the transaxle, we actually had to modify
the rear quarters to actually get the tires to mount on without having to do a whole lot
of interesting work if I ever get a flat, because this car gets driven and it gets abused.
I have been a car guy since I was born.
My father, he had 409 Chevys, basically until I was born he had a hot rod, and then once
I came around hot rods went away and I got to basically take on the mantel.
I bought this car when I graduated from college, I was originally thinking about joining the
10 and a half inch outlaw drag class, that was really big at the time around 2005-2006,
but then things like Goodguys, LS Fest, and all of these autocross centric programs started
popping up and I was like, okay, they are building something for me, they are building
something for my old car, I want to build something, let's see what we can do and rock
the world.
So I have been dabbling, I have been autocrossing through college, well through high school
and college and I was into that, I already had a car, actually a 4th gen Camaro at the
time running that.
But then I was like, I love these big body cars, this thing is all steel, it's all GM
steel.
So my Grand Champion experience has been very humbling.
Now I run locally in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region so I get to experience with
people like Marshall Reynard and Danny Pop on a weekly basis, so they are running Cam
S, they are running these type of cars, these types of Grand Champion cars weekly and I
get to measure up against them constantly and that is a very humbling experience.