Antique & Classic Cars Blog

At least one reader is a devout 2002 fan–a truly cool car–who hasn’t seen many on this site. So, when I saw this one a block from my house and camera, seemed like an appropriate moment to up ‘02 content.

Luckily the owner appeared so I got some background too. This belonged to a Hare Krishna–not a pairing I’d think of, but he kept good care of it. Current owner Kelly Shields bought it, threw on a supercharger to take horsepower to 200, but alas the back end was too light for that to matter much with near-standard width tires.

So out came the 6.9:1 pistons and in went 10:1s, if I recall correctly, for a useable 130 ponies, unsupercharged. Shields also redid the chassis, body, brakes, etc. to make it stop as well as it goes. I’m not the only one to like the car. He’s had people walk up and say, “I’d like to buy that car from you right now.” Nope. But he’s building a garage where he may start rebuilding them for others on a small scale. Sweet.

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