Eric Yost has been a Hot Rod Drag Week competitor for a number of years now, most recently competing in his Pontiac Firebird affectionately known as ‘Dirty Bird’. After last year’s competition, Yost sold off the Dirty Bird and decided it was time to build a new car – the 1968 Camaro you see here.

Yost’s new car was built at his Charlotte, North Carolina shop, Customs By Bigun, and features an awesome single-turbo, NASCAR-inspired small block powerplant along with a host of other goodies that have been assembled to handle the rigors of Drag Week and the Hot Rod Top Speed Challenge – the two arenas where he plans to compete with it. The craftsmanship on the car appears to be second-to-none, with a maze of tubing feeding the exhaust into the turbocharger and straight to the manifold. He’s also taken advantage of the wrap craze to cover the car in a “hue” that looks more like the car’s been sitting underneath a rusty metal building for the last thirty years.

The competitors who take on Drag Week are a group that, put simply, relishes in the challenge of doing something that few others are willing to attempt. This car will have a tow-behind trailer that’s chock-full of every spare part that will fit inside as Yost tries to be a bad, bad man again this year. We are especially digging the carbon-fiber cupholders and iPhone mount placed close to the driver. Yost has testing scheduled this week as Drag Week is coming towards us with the roar of a freight train.

A wicked machine with an awesome purpose, and we’ll be watching as the Drag Week torture test competition gets under way at Beech Bend Raceway in Kentucky on September 8th – just a little over two weeks away.