{"id":2850,"date":"1995-08-01T09:37:00","date_gmt":"1995-08-01T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2024-07-01T22:42:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T03:42:13","slug":"the-ultimate-readers-ride-all-wheel-drive-300hp-s-10-pickup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/1995\/08\/01\/the-ultimate-readers-ride-all-wheel-drive-300hp-s-10-pickup\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Readers&#8217; Ride &#8211; All-wheel-drive 300hp S-10 pickup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sport Truck<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/sportmachines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Sport-Truck-8-95-30a-feature-1024x450.jpg\" alt=\"all-wheel-drive 300hp S-10 pickup\" class=\"wp-image-2851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Sport-Truck-8-95-30a-feature-1024x450.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Sport-Truck-8-95-30a-feature-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Sport-Truck-8-95-30a-feature-768x338.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Sport-Truck-8-95-30a-feature.jpg 1264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Normally, you&#8217;d expect a bigwig from one of America&#8217;s largest and most successful corporations to ride around in a chauffeur-driven limo or possibly drive a highroller car such as a Mercedes-Benz, a BMW or even a Cadillac. Not if that executive is a down-home country boy turned VP, whose love for cars and trucks has been credited with the successful about-face in the marketing of one of American&#8217;s most famous brands of vehicles-Chevrolet. Jim Perkins, Vice President of General Motors and Chevrolet&#8217;s General Manager, is a regular guy from Texas who just happens to like performance cars and trucks. His latest &#8220;ride&#8221; is an all-wheel-drive 300hp S-10 pickup, aptly nicknamed Baby Thunder by Mark McPhail of the Chevy Race Shop. Built with off-the-shelf GM parts by the Chevy Race Shop and John Moss&#8217; skunkworks operation at GM&#8217;s Arizona Proving Grounds near Phoenix, Baby Thunder is packed with a Corvette LT1 V8 that&#8217;s mated to a modified 4L60-E automatic and Astro van all-wheel-drive viscous transfer case that splits power to an S-10 4&#215;4 axle up front and standard 3.42:1 rearend out back. The rear suspension was lowered slightly and the truck was fitted with &#8217;93 Corvette wheels shod with huge Goodyear GSC tires. On the inside is a floor-mounted Corvette shifter, bucket seats and full instrumentation lifted from a GMC Syclone. Last year at our Sport Truck shootout (&#8220;Tripping the Lights Fantastic,&#8221; August &#8217;94), the truck ran the quarter in 13.90 seconds at 97.71 mph. So how do we know Perkins actually drives the thing? He made a surprise appearance in Baby Thunder at a recent truck show in Scottsdale, Arizona, where we took these pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/sportmachines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Sport-Truck-8-95.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Sport Truck 8-95.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-a7d13090-e2db-461a-8ef4-32168601948b\" href=\"https:\/\/sportmachines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Sport-Truck-8-95.pdf\">Sport Truck 8-95<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sportmachines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Sport-Truck-8-95.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-a7d13090-e2db-461a-8ef4-32168601948b\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sport Truck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concept","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3247,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions\/3247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}