The Geo brand was founded by GM as a way to combat the low-cost Japanese imports…mostly by rebadging said imports as Geo vehicles. It was a strange brand to say the least, and it didn’t really produce any memorable vehicles. In fact, it didn’t produce any vehicles that weren’t borrowed from some other brand.

The only two Geo vehicles that are memorable for any reason is the uber-efficient and painfully-slow Geo Metro, and the Geo Tracker mini-SUV, which was really just a Suzuki Sidekick.

But if you can shoehorn a V8 engine into a Tracker, like the guys in this next video did, then you end up with a crazy wheelie machine.

While the Geo Tracker has found a second life as a popular off-roader, they are a rare sight at the drag strip because of their gutless 1.6 liter 4-cylinder engines. If you’ve got the time and know-how, you can cram a small-block V8 into a Tracker.

Thanks to their light weight and short wheelbase, toss in a little nitrous, and this Tracker can do wheelies like nobody’s business.

The Tracker belongs to Chris Wilson, who put some pics and info on his Facebook page, from what we can gather the engine under the hood was a Windsor Ford V8, but he says that’s gone now and he might install a 302. It’s a popular engine choice for drag racers due to its abundance of aftermarket parts and widespread availability of adapter kits…not that anyone makes a drop-in adapter kit for V8 Tracker swaps. But we’d totally take this car to the drag strip for a weekend of racing, how about you?