PPE 1970 Chevrolet C10 Duramax Diesel Conversion

The 1967-72 Chevy pickups represented a sea change in light-duty GM trucks, from utilitarian to lifestyle-oriented. Part of what drove that transition was a growing American love affair with RVs and campers that needed a pickup to tow and haul them around the country.

While many of these so-called “Glamour” trucks did exactly that, we bet none were setup for the kind of hauling this sleeper white 1970 Chevy C10 can do. Pacific Performance Engineering has stuffed a massaged 700-horsepower 6.6-liter V-8 Duramax diesel engine under its hood and paired it with a six-speed Allison automatic transmission.

PPE added their 4094R water-cooled turbo kit, intercooler, Allison Stage5 transmission upgrade kit, Xcelerator race tuner, a hot-rod wiring harness and topped it off with a stainless steel exhaust.

The result? An oil-burning classic pickup that can do the quarter-mile in 10.53 seconds at 132 mph!