Project
Bill's Banshee

Some builds are about transportation. Some are about nostalgia. Project Bill's Banshee is about neither — it's about what happens when you take one of the cleanest square-body bodies ever made and give it the drivetrain of a modern performance SUV, then add another 500hp. You get something that's unadulterated. Something that screams down the road that is accurately described by nothing better than, well, a banshee.

The foundation is a 1979 Chevrolet K10 Silverado — a truck that already had presence in factory form. The two-tone blue paint, the chrome trim, the Silverado badge — all of it preserved and restored to a standard that makes it look like it just rolled off a GM show floor in 1979. Except it didn't. It rolled out of Headwaters Customs in Ennis, Montana.

Under that classic hood lives a 6.0 LS bored and stroked to 408 cubic inches, force-fed by a turbocharger to produce an estimated 1,200 to 1,300 horsepower. The entire truck rides on a full all-wheel-drive Denali chassis — modern geometry, modern braking, modern everything — wrapped in a body that looks like it belongs in 1979.

The LED headlights, custom billet grille, and chrome wheels are the only tells. Everything else is period-perfect. That's the point. Bill's Banshee doesn't announce itself. It just goes.