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JUNKYARD FIGHTER
Drive!
|August 2025
Nick Taylor's 1979 C10 Sleeper Build
SOME BUILDS ARE FLASHY. Some are perfect. And then there's 'Rufus'—Nick Taylor's rough-and-ready 1979 Chevy C10 Big 10 that started in a junkyard and ended up a turbocharged pavement-pounder. Built in Davie, Florida, this squarebody isn't polished for the show field. It's built to run. And it does—with boost, bite, and no apologies. Being a full-time firefighter, Nick isn't the type to stand back while someone else turns wrenches.
He handled this build himself over two years, sinking $50K into what's now one of Florida's meanest black-patina bruisers. His goal? Simple: "Build it, enjoy it, cruise the country."
OLD SCHOOL LOOK, NEW SCHOOL POWER
This story is from the August 2025 edition of Drive!.
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