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As RPM readers know, it’s very important for us to recognize not only the high power and ultra-fast builds you see each month in RPM, but also the roots of fast cars, including factory built performance and race cars that have helped steer the industry since its early days on the street and strip.
Tolono, Illinois’ Tom Jenkins is an IT Project Manager with a huge soft spot for his 1972 Buick GS factory muscle car, and rightly so, he’s owned it for over 37 years.
It all started with a 13 year old boy’s trip to the Cleveland Autorama. “I just went along for the ride since it sounded like fun, and that trip led to a lifetime hobby and lifestyle” Jenkins remembered.
Story: George Pich
Photos: Steven Taylor
If we told you that Rick Kiel is a retired blueberry farmer, you might not think someone who spends their time in the fields growing small, delicious fruit could come up with something as wild as the Potent Rodent...
However, Kiel has also been cultivating his wild side when he wasn’t sowing his crops, and the Pro Street Vega you see here is the yield. Michigan resident Rick Kiel enjoyed street racing in the 1960s, but rather than making a move to on-track drag racing, he kept to the dirt and went mud racing in 1985 running cut tire and scooper tire classes nationally.
Story: Steve Baur
Photos: Steven Taylor
The body of the stunning split bumper Camaro retains its original steel and glass from the firewall back. A fiberglass front end has been installed and paint work was completed by Keith Wolk Restorations in a Mazda 46V color.
For many enthusiasts and racers, family often takes priority over fun behind the wheel, but once the kids have been raised, the house is quiet again, and the financial strain has lifted, it’s often possible to get back to your favorite pastimes. For St. Louis, Missouri’s Noel Steibel, that meant finally finishing the car he bought so long ago.
A welder by trade, Steibel has been working on cars since he was 14 years of age.
“My father, Norman Steibel, raced throughout my entire childhood,” Steibel told us. “He started street and strip racing in 1960, so I was exposed at a very early age.”
By the time he turned 18, Steibel was already stepping into a Jerry Haas-built, old-school, tube-chassis 1977 Vega that ran 9s in the quarter-mile.
Story: Steve Baur
Photos: Stephen Taylor
Article first appeared in the May 2021 digital issue.
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Article first appeared in the March 2022 digital issue.
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