Hilborn Buick Photo Gallery

Darin Smith has been building and restoring classic vehicles with DWS Classics for more than 20 years. He handles everything from nut-and-bolt restorations to custom-built vehicles.
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Scott Shafiroff is no stranger to making big power with street friendly combinations. This is evident in his Ultra Street and Big Dawg series that routinely twist the upper end of the dyno on pump gas. Scott was impressed with results of a 509 dyno session that included a Hilborn EFI Injection system recently featured in Engine Labs. Always looking to make more power, Scott was interested to see if the same results could be applied to a more serious application and set his eye on one of his relatively new combinations, a 615 cid bruiser that stuffs a 4-5/8 stroke into a low deck block. Known as the 615 Twisted Low Deck it has already seen tremendous success in the street and race environment, but questioned whether the Hilborn would show the same gains in a more aggressive application compared to the 509.
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Blurring the line between street machine and land speed racer, this rare 1969 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II turns as many heads on the salt at Bonneville as it does at the local Cars and Coffee.
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Jody Babcock’s 1972 Plymouth Gold Duster started life as a 6-cylinder car and came to him with original paint and only 22,000 miles on the odometer. A fabricator by trade, Babcock wanted to impart some of those skills to his son, and the two transformed the car from stock to turbocharged drag-strip terror.
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