Someone Needs To Buy This Small-Tire Lexus And Race It

We’re not in the business of plugging buy/sell ads here, but if we absolutely want to see and photograph the vehicle in question, then we’re plugging away, and it isn’t even done shamelessly.

Brandon Wilbur’s one-off 2018 Lexus LC500 is a car we most assuredly want to see up and running.

“I had this car up for sale a while back, and took it down because I’d decided to keep it and finish it. But after seeing my best friend wreck, I’ve decided this isn’t for me, so I put it back up for sale,” says Wilbur.

“I bought the entire car… it had been clipped in the front; we got a new OEM bumper for it, and sold the engine and transmission out of it to turn it into a drag car. I decided on this particular car because there isn’t another out there like it. It’s the only one. We tore it apart and built it up with a 25.1 chassis; the interior is all carbon-fiber, it’s all factory body panels. It still has the factory VIN on the doors and front window. We planned to do an all-billet small-block setup to run Limited Drag Radial, but it can run small-tire radial races, 28-inch tire shootouts, and so on,” Wilbur says.

The engine is an M&M Competition Engines 400-inch small-block Chevy with a Forced Inductions 114mm turbo, built upon a CN billet block, Revolution billet heads, a Bryant billet crank, and R&R rods. Wilbur has selected Billet Atomizer 800 lb/hr injectors to deliver the fuel, FuelTech FTSpark8 CDI coils to light the combustion process, and an FT600 ECU and an FT switch panel control it all.

There’s also a dry sump oiling system, a Waterman Bertha fuel pump, a Meziere billet flexplate and starter, a PST carbon-fiber driveshaft, and a 1.25-inch big shaft two-speed Turbo 400 from Extreme Automatics, as well as Strange Engineering brakes, Ron G canister radial rear shocks and spindle-mount front struts, Weld Racing Alpha double beadlocks, a Strange 3.89 ultra-light third-member, Moser 40-spline axles, and a laundry list more.

The price? $85,000 rolling, or $125,000 for the entire lot. See it here or here.