Win a 1,000-HP Twin-Turbo Chevelle + $30,000 Cash (Choose Your Ride #6)

What you're actually looking at

Under the wrap it's a GM A-body Chevelle — though RestoRidesGarage never says which model year, and on a nameplate that ran from 1964 to 1977 that omission matters more than the horsepower headline does. What they do spell out is the driveline: a 6.0L LS-based V8 with twin Precision turbochargers, quoted at 1,000-plus horsepower and 800-plus lb-ft, feeding a built 4L80E four-speed automatic and a Quick Performance 9-inch rear end. Weld Racing wheels on Mickey Thompson rubber, four-wheel power disc brakes, a full suspension kit, and a fully restored interior fill out the sheet.

Read that parts list and the car tells you exactly what it is. The 4L80E and the 9-inch are drag hardware — the combination people run when the plan is to hook and go, not to chase apexes. The finish is a KPMF K75400 gloss white vinyl wrap with black stripes rather than paint, which is a genuinely meaningful line item: a wrap is a few thousand dollars of film over whatever bodywork lives underneath, and it's the first thing anyone taking delivery would want to look beneath.

Why a boosted A-body still lands

There is a reason the twin-turbo LS Chevelle has become the default American power fantasy. The chassis is cheap and endlessly supported, the 6.0 iron block will take boost that would grenade far more expensive engines, and the shape — long hood, square shoulders, no wing, no scoop — hides all of it. A four-figure horsepower number under a wrapper that looks like a nicely sorted weekend cruiser is a specific kind of joke that never gets old.

Be clear-eyed about what a car like this asks of you, though. At the quoted output the 4L80E is doing real work, and a built 4L80 is a wear item on a 1,000-hp car, not a lifetime part. Mickey Thompson tires and drag-oriented gearing make it loud, thirsty and busy at cruise. Boosted LS builds live or die on fueling and tuning, and neither the fuel system nor the tune is described. And there is no service history, no dyno sheet, and no chassis or body documentation on offer — the horsepower and torque figures are the builder's claims, and that's the whole file.

The fine print worth knowing

The Chevelle is not really the prize on its own. This is Choose Your Ride #6, and a winner picks one of seven vehicles or takes cash: the Chevelle with $30,000, a twin-turbo R8, a 1200HP GTR, a stanced Raptor R with $10,000, a widebody Hellcat with $50,000, a Lamborghini-inspired Ducati with $50,000, a custom Road King with $50,000 — or $100,000 flat. Notably, the vehicle photos in that pool are drawn from several different storefronts, not one garage, and sister sites including JustMenacing.com and Stanced.co promote the same Choose Your Ride promotion with the same 10/4/26 end date and the same $100,000 cash-out.

Entries come from digital poster packs running $15 to $150, with a 50x multiplier promotion running against the base rate, plus monthly VIP memberships at $14.99 and $49.99. The entry counts shown on the entry page and the counts shown on the shop collection page do not match for the same products, and the $50 pack is badged "BEST VALUE + 1,000 BONUS ENTRIES" while displaying fewer entries than the $35 pack. The site states no purchase is necessary and grants 10 complimentary entries at registration; the full alternate-entry procedure lives in the official rules, which are published only as a Word document download rather than as readable text on the site, so the odds, the drawing procedure and the prize's stated retail value are not visible anywhere on the site itself.

And the tax bill is real. A roughly $70,000 car plus $30,000 cash is a six-figure taxable windfall reported in the year you receive it. The $30,000 is a genuine help — it covers a large share of the federal hit for most filers — but state income tax, title, registration, insurance on a 1,000-hp car and the cost of trailering it home all come out of pocket. The $100,000 straight-cash option exists precisely because that math sends a lot of winners the other way, and RestoRidesGarage's own winners page shows three of its five listed winners taking cash.