Kye Kelley Adds New Larry Jeffers-Built Pro Modified Camaro To Stable

In a move that will come as a surprise to no one, former Street Outlaws and No Prep Kings star Kye Kelley has added a bonafide Pro Modified entry to his racing stable, with the purpose of taking on the sport’s best dooorslammer racers with no compromises.

Kelley, a former champion of the No Prep Kings series, recently placed a number of his race cars and vehicles for sale in the wake of the series’ cancellation, investing in new businesses (including a dirt oval race track) and setting his sights on the acquisition of a dedicated Pro Modified race car. Just days after parting with his very accomplished third-gen Camaro known as “Can’t Get Right,” Kelley and company trekked from their Mississippi home base to Larry Jeffers’ chassis shop in Missouri to pick up an almost-new sixth-gen Camaro. The new entry, with only a couple of dozen runs on the proverbial odometer, is finished in Kelley’s trademark jet black colorway, and sports the screw-blown Hemi for power that was pulled from the third-gen.

Jeffers’ team installed the powerplant and put the finishing touches on the car, and then got Kelley fitted before he and his team test ahead of a planned debut at this weekend’s IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series finale at Darana Motorsports Park (formerly GALOT) in Dunn, North Carolina. Kelley is one of 25 entries expected there in perhaps the toughest IHRA Pro Modified field to date.

Kye Kelley stunned the doorslammer drag racing world a little less than a year ago, when he not only put the steel roof and quarter “Can’t Get Right” Camaro into one of the most competitive fields of Pro Modified entries in the sport’s history at the Snowbird Outlaw Nationals in Bradenton, Florida, but wheeled the outclassed chassis all the way to victory lane in what was one of the most improbable upsets of all-time. Despite that incredible triumph and dipping into the 3.50s in Pro Modified legal trim, however, the car and those like it from the No Prep Kings series have proven challenging to consistently match up to their longer, lighter, and leaner counterparts — and with that, Kelley knew the next step for his program was a car just like this one.