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.

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Andrew Wolf

Andrew has been involved in motorsports from a very young age. Over the years, he has photographed several major auto racing events, sports, news journalism, portraiture, and everything in between. After working with the Power Automedia staff for some time on a freelance basis, Andrew joined the team in 2010.
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