Turbo Big Block Milk Truck Takes on Fourth-Gen Camaro in Drag Race: Track Time Tuesday
Wicked Chevy Big Block-swapped milk truck no longer delivers dairy products, instead choosing to tear up the drag strip.
We’ve seen some strange drag races in our time on this giant rock, many featuring some pretty unusual vehicles. But the turbocharged, LS-swapped milk truck that rips up the strip in this video from YouTuber Drag Racing and Car Stuff might just take the cake in that regard. This fascinating project – the subject of this week’s Track Time Tuesday – was once used to haul dairy products and deliver them to your door, which is what they did in the old days, but now, it’s a true drag strip terror that’s too much for its fourth-gen Camaro foe to keep up with.
According to the video’s description, this big block-swapped milk truck was originally made by a company called Divco (Detroit Industrial Vehicles Company), a well-known producer of milk trucks built specifically for home deliveries. Divco built these and other types of vehicles from 1926 until 1986, so they were once a very familiar sight on American roads. This particular model is from 1963 and still sports its original patina, which makes it that much cooler in our book.
Regardless, you won’t find some straight-six or even an old-fashioned V8 under the hood of this particular delivery truck. Rather, it’s been treated to an LS swap with a turbo up top for good measure, which makes it far quicker than before – not to mention very likely quicker than any other dairy mover out there in the world. This much is clear when it took on a fourth-gen Camaro at Gainesville Raceway in Florida recently, as we can see in this short clip.
We don’t know what sort of mods the Camaro has been treated to, but the milk truck makes quick work of it right from the start. After popping a small wheelie, the big boxy beast rockets down the track and puts a small gap on the Chevy, ripping off a 12.17-second pass at 106 miles-per-hour, which was good enough to beat out the Camaro’s 12.81-second pass at the same trap speed. If nothing else, if the owner of this delivery vehicle decides to get back in the business, it’s pretty much a guarantee that they’ll get your milk to the doorstep faster than anyone else.
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