The storied history of my favorite car begins with a Hollywood b-movie starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson who played street racers traveling the country in search of dollars and thrills. The movie was Two-Lane Blacktop and it also starred a ’55 Chevrolet 210, a car with the right look, stance, and performance to burn its image into my brain for years to come. I was a teenager who knew that someday I had to have a ’55. I wanted it to look like a late-‘60s era NHRA Gas Coupe class car AKA a Gasser.

Decades later, when I finally got the chance to build this car during several episodes of Roadkill, I never envisioned it being truly fast. I assumed it would just be a fun street car. But over the course of the last few years I became obsessed with competing at an event called Hot Rod Drag Week, a week-long test of street car supremacy both on the road and on the dragstrip. Preparing for Drag Week meant honing my skills behind the wheel and under the hood. I wrenched and broke and wrenched until my knuckles bled and finally my straight axle, stick-shifted, ’55 Chevy Bel Air rewarded me with something I never dreamt was possible-an 8 second pass down the quarter mile.

This shirt is a snapshot in time: the day I bang-shifted my way into rarified territory for a Gasser, as Blasphemi tripped the lights in 8.97 seconds at 150 mph at Atlanta Dragway during Drag Week on September 14, 2018. I’ll never forget the feeling and now you can be a part of it, too.

Oh yeah, I blew up the Hemi immediately after the 8 second pass so all the proceeds from this shirt will go towards fixing the hand grenade that made love to the chainsaw inside of my engine. Thanks!