The smartest guy in the sport just can’t keep busy enough.
Tuerck at work at his day job in Formula Drift.But Tuerck may be better known for his off-season hijinks. He is the guy who stuffed a Ferrari 458 V8 into a Toyota 86 just because it seemed like a good idea, creating the crazy 4586. That car has generated nearly 70 million impressions on social media since its inception in 2016. Recently he put a Judd V8 Formula 1 engine into a Toyota Supra for similar reasons. Both cars worked splendidly.
And now he has done this, perhaps somewhat tame by Tuerck standards, but no less intricately engineered. It’s a 1966 Toyota Stout pickup truck, a vehicle that started out as a body-on-frame compact parts hauler. It was even intended to tow a trailer, using all 86 of its stock horsepower and all 100 lb-ft of its stock torque, though the trailer certainly couldn’t have been very heavy, could it?
“So I was in the middle of another build project with my friend Dominic building what is now the Formula Supra, and I was approached by TRD and Mobil 1 to do another build project,” Tuerck said at the SEMA show where the car made its debut. “They told me to come up with a project, present them with something.”“So my friend Dominic was doing some research and he found this really old pickup truck from Toyota. We found the actual truck in San Diego. So that was really close.
The team swung into action. “We scooped that truck up quick, presented the idea to TRD and Mobil 1, and they signed off on it. So then we went ahead and just started coming up with the actual game plan on how we wanted to build the car and with what parts and what engine and drivetrain and so on, and so on and so on.”By the time they were done there wasn’t much left of the original Stout.
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