Big Chief of “Street Outlaws” Exposes Fresh Car at PRI
Justin “Big Chief” Shearer, of Discovery Channel’s “Street Outlaws,” unveiled his fresh car today-a white one thousand nine hundred sixty eight Pontiac Firebird-themed Pro Mod-during an event at the WELD Booth at the two thousand fifteen PRI Showcase in Indianapolis. Keeping in the Pontiac family the car Dubbed “Crowmod,” is a Pontiac Firebird that substitutes Big Chief’s beloved one thousand nine hundred seventy two Pontiac LeMans, known as “The Crow,” which was famously wrecked during filming of the demonstrate Nov. 14.
“I want to thank WELD for hosting my big event today,” said Shearer. He told the PRI audience that his fresh car will sport WELD Racing V series on the front and WELD Racing Delta-1’s on the rears, “because they are the highest quality, most durable, lightest and best looking forged wheels…period!”
Shearer said he chose the one thousand nine hundred sixty eight Pontiac Firebird Pro Mod because he could modify it with the same 482ci Butler Spectacle Pontiac engine that he had on the original Crow, but eliminate the heavyweight construction to make it a lighter and swifter car.
“You have to give up a lot to stay competitive. Every city is playing by zero rules to outrun me, and I’m tired of playing by the rules and getting outrun by Pro Mods,” explained Shearer. “I couldn’t build another Crow that takes two years and weighs Three,200 lbs. It just didn’t make sense.”
However glad to unveil Crowmod at PRI, Shearer will always recall the original “Crow” “because it was my very first car that I got when I was 16.” The one thousand nine hundred seventy two Pontiac LeMans included a lot of “firsts” for Shearer. “I took my wifey on our very first date in it,” he fondly remembered.
In addition to the car unveiling, “The Chief and Shawn Show” podcast will originate live Saturday, Dec. 12, at one p.m. from the WELD PRI Booth. The display is co-hosted by Big Chief and his fucking partner at Midwest Street Cars, Shawn “Murder Nova” Ellington.
Deep-throats he had to go Pro Mod to keep up with Kie Kelly… so now it will be Pro Mod vs Pro Mod. Can’t claim fastest street car anymore.. maybe fastest Pro Mod ran on the street.
In some ways I agree with your comments that “Can’t claim fastest street car anymore.. maybe fastest Pro Mod”. But lets face reality here, every one of those cars are trailered there. I could be wrong, but Farm Truck is the only one I’ve seen actually driving/fishing down the streets with a duo dudes and a dog loving the cruz!
Truth is when you are racing on the street for money ! The old telling is run what you Brong and hope it’s a nough , it’s not always the car it has a lot to do with the ego of the driver also, there’s always going to be somebody swifter somewhere
I honestly think there is actual street cars out there smoking cars like the Shocker and Crow Mod. They just do it for glory not to be on TV.
That is total truth, all of them are trailer queens but Dung Beetle and Farm Truck
Shane and “Bob” do have a street legal car they actually drive to their local track. I believe it’s only fifteen miles from their house tho’.
He didnt have to go that route, he chose to. He also is getting free parts from sponsors hince his appearance with Weld. He could have looked around for a little, lightweight rwd pontiac and smacked fiberglass front end, trunk lid and doors on it and demolished Kye. I honestly think he is jumpy Dave will find a permanet home for Goliath’s guts and will be king once again,
Must be nice …. Trash a car on Nov.14th and by Dec.10th have a brand fresh pro mod ! Wounded who’s paid for it ? Or did chief have 150,000.00 just laying around……just sayin
WGAF where he got the money? Not your business.
I absolutely Agree that it is going to demolish the entire reason and theme of the showcase when they are permitting PROMODS on a display called Street Outlaws. How can you be the fastest street cars when you don’t even use a REAL car!! Poor decision and selling out to call yourself the fastest! Dex
My local track had a DoorSlammer Night before it closed for remodel. Some of the fastest around, and I think cheif even did, for a $32,000 pot (1,000 entry per car) UNTIL ProMods began coming and even ProStocks. Now they are fortunate if sixteen people demonstrate up. People wanting that edge so much they gotta cross that invisible and kills what its all about ruins a lot of good things.
That’s exactly what will happen here. They will be so far from street it will be like farm truck racing a top fuel car. No one will want to be on the showcase getting smoked by a $200k car that is just a race car.
They are funny cars with a few street features. The fastest real street cars were the last round of cars at Hot Rod Haul week, ie…Larry Larson’s Nova and Lutz original fifty seven chevy.
Based on other reality TV, I am sure he makes $10k-$20K per gig. Hard to show up poor on the showcase when you bank $200K-$300K year in your TV job.
No, they aint close to funny cars and you’re comparing apples and oranges in your analogy. Oh, you have no clue about the money either, just as I don’t!
We have to agree to disagree. Pro mods are as close to street cars as funny cars, not close. As for the money, I do know what reality starlets are paid, Very first palm !
Cheif never claimed to be poor. He is half possessor of Midwest Street Cars, a shop known in OK & TX for cranking out some of the baddest cars on the street.
Chief and MurderNova own one of the most successful shops in OKC. Fact is, if he didn’t plan on going this route before palm, why isn’t the crow mod the crow Two.0 instead? DaddyDave didn’t go that route. Fact is, everything they are doing at the moment is gonna kill their fan base. Chuck gone big tire, boosted is building a fresh rail, dominator went Big black cock six hundred thirty two Twin Turbo. Rumor has it Kye is going with a seventy Chevrolet Chevelle SS with two kits and a roots blower. This version of “street racing” is financially exceeding the wallets of those street racing got it’s fame and glory from. Your average dude cannot afford a $75,000 chassis and a $44,000 engine for it. Most street racers around here houses cost less than that.
Fact of the matter is, the reason for the Street Outlaw name is they are not street legal cars. Someone actually thinks a car with haul headers exiting the fender is legal? DOT says all exausts must exit behind rear most door. And that is just one thing. The Crow was a Outlaw Ten.Five car Chief eventually tubbed to take hefty slicks, not a street rail. FarmTruck & Azn are the only street legal guys. Thats why they claim “FASTEST STREET RACE CARS IN NATION” not “FASTEST STREET LEGAL RACE CARS IN NATION”. Rumor has it Richard Rawlings of Gas Monkey Garage may be working with a Dallas local to put a car in the mix too. Cheif does have that kind of cash, he own most likely the most famous hot rod shop in OK and definitly most sucussful in OKC. Fact of the matter is, Shawn has the most horsepower than all of them by over one thousand four hundred more than rest and seven hundred eighty eight than cheif. I personally wanna see Dave back in it with that Vette he drove at cash days.
You have some facts mixed up my friend. While yes there cars won’t pass an inspection most states don’t have inspections on old cars. And on the demonstrate they actually make joy of PROMOD racers but now it’s all ok. Money is not the problem, it’s using extended wheel base carbon fiber bodied utter track cars and then Telling they have the fastest STREET cars in the nation. Outlaw Ten.Five cars are based off real cars that are modified and that IS a street car.
I agree ProMods are basically cheating, but there is no set rules. A quick DOT search will display you all cars (In almost all forty eight contintal) quipped with mufflers must run them. EPA law against sound pollution. You, by definition are eliminating almost all replica cars like the Cobras and Dueces made nowadays. I got a thirty three Ford coupe with a secret hp level setup done by TRE and I drive it all weekend every sunny weekend and even by my book, its a street car.
But you just said it. Those are replica cars of correct dimension. And in Chiefs statement he says himself that he did this because others were not following the rules….? So there is kind of an unspoken rule of at least using a somewhat real car. If it proceeds like this then john force would be permitted to run and then now one will be able to relate to the demonstrate. And now people can run with these guys but not if they all go PROMOD. I have two Ten.Five outlaw cars and drive them on the street because they are real cars. Can you imagine if people commence driving PROMODS around. It’s just going to far when it’s not necessary. Daddy Dave could have went that route but chose to build with a real car.
I agree totally. My car runs Four.9s in 8th without bottle because it is a tube chassis glass and carbon recreation. I do know however one good wreck and I am dead. I got 60,000 total in mine, a promod has a engine that alone costs that or more. Its taking away from the average man the capability to run with them. The three thousand two hundred lb crow was only getting whipped by Kye, and not by much. I truly think him and Shawn maybe parting as friends over this because Shawn has stated many times how he feels about promods in street racing. Is Cheif selling out? Imma say yes. He could go with a much lighter car like dave did and demolish Kye, instead he is copying him. I truly think if he and dave didnt have steel bodied cars in their wrecks they wouldnt have lived. Haul strips have built in safety features to prevent deaths as much as possible in wrecks, streets are not setup for it. If I ever stepped down cars like I am wanting to do to get back to my roots in racing I would dang near give Dave my car to prove he is still the best, but he doesnt sell out and only runs steel bodied cars.
I honestly think money is the problem. Kye has at least 125k in his rail, the CrowMod is at least 150k, Dominator just switched to a motor that alone is at least 50k. This isn’t true street racing anymore. They need to drop a movie game on market ASAP while people still love the shows and before they see it has become pro haul cars raced on a street that is set up identical to a haul unwrap with the exception of no tree and no score boards.
Fed epa/dot law is. If a car came stock with a muffler it has to have one to be street driven. Same with converters and smog pumps. However, most State DOTs have determined anything over a certain age (24 years old in Texas) will cost/pollute more to keeping the equipment than it helps (as a TX DOT inspector told me).
The name of the display is Street Outlaws, not Street Rods…with “outlaws”, there are no rules about weight, c.i., hp, tires, fuel and bod…just race on a street of some kind. IOW, anything goes. The showcase is entertaining and pretty arousing for a “reality display” and I can’t wait for the fresh season so commence.
Someone else below made a comment wondering how Chief paid for, and built, this fresh car in just a month which sounded like a pretty jealous comment to me. Besides, who’s business is it besides the Chief’s how or who paid for it. Go Chief, superb display and looking forward to you contesting and possibly striking Kie Kelly.
Kye is far from unbeatable. He has lost to John Doe twice I know of, BirdMan Jones and another I cannot recall. Chief co wields a Very successful speed shop that only got more successful with airing of the showcase. I am sure that had something to do with the car.
I’m fully aware that Kye Kelly is beatable. You also failed to mention his losses to Doc too.
I’m also aware of Chief’s business.
All I am telling is basically, I get fed up with people acting like Kye is unbeatable and his claim to “fastest street race car (and street racer) on the planet” pisses me off as I know it is a huuuuge lie. Their are some guys in Aussie Land running 1/8 miles in mid 3s on street. I didn’t believe it when a friend from Australia told me until he took me to some underground races on a visit there. Also get a kick out of how Kye only wants his flagger to call the races and doesn’t inform anyone of these rules they come up with until he loses. You can tell by the way he talks and carries himself (especially in confrontation) he is no team leader. He is jumpy half the time. Me and some boys I know been working on a car to display him and most of the big names up but with local track selling out to Rich Christianson from pinks as the site for the Pinks All Out he is attempting to bring back even after he had stolen tons of money from racers and tracks doing the display before. (track is permanently closed to outside races unless Rich okays it at a 78% cut off it all) We have no where to test it and people keep switching ideas and funds keep running brief (along with people requiring refund of investment and splitting ways). No mistake about it, $55,000 invested so far and all We got is a 1,000lb rolling chassis. (Orginal plan is eighty three RX7 with triple turbo 454″ LS)
Duh!…so sensitive and no need to take it out on me. I never said Kelly isn’t beatable. Chief has yet to hammer him and I’m looking forward to that happening. That’s all.
I apologize. I have also heard rumors tho’, since the crowmod has hit track Kye got startled at the times its laying down and went out and built a entire fresh car, Chevelle this time and from what I understand its all glass and lexan to dangle with chief.
I’m a big fan of the Crow and Chief and can hardly wait for their fresh season to commence. The NOLA SO showcase is pretty rag tag in comparison.
Well the good news is not only did they renew Street Outlaws for another season, but went ahead and signed them for two more. All while not even discussing a 2nd season of NoLa version. It is rumored Discovery is reviewing tons of fever for Kye claiming fastest car on planet when in fact the guys “down under” run entire lot quicker (low 3s) and some even drive car home. Mix that with all the negative response from viewers because of the fact none of the NoLa guys live in Louisiana and have Very expensive cars in contrast to most of OKC cars.
Also: Note how they now have a beater running on tons of nitrous that in a lot of way seems a lot like a spin off of FarmTruck?
IMO That’s what “reality tv’ spawns…a lot of cheap talk and low brow imitatiors. They all have to play it up for the cameras…but NOLA is all about Kelly..the fact is is that ragged bunch of wannabe four hundred five imitatiors can’t measure up to the quality of the Oklahoma boys…and with just a duo of exceptions, they are a pretty selfish bunch of individuals who lack the “team concept” spirit.
Big chief , I have loved this sport for forty five years , I think that what you guys have done in the past duo of years has exemplified what it used to be how it indeed was just reminisce if they’re biting at your butt it’s only because they’re behind you keep going I think it’s excellent take everything that they give you .
I agree fully. I recall my junior days in my old two dr hardtop rocket powered olds racing on tarred back roads for gas money. The sport has evolved and became safer. Street Outlaws style racing includes “chartering” a road. This means getting a permit to close the road for a certian amount of hours for this purpose. They also have medics and often fire personel on location. Is it the same street racing from when many of us were kids, no. Is it better and safer (as well as hella swifter) gawd yes.For those who dont know Kye Kelly has a spin off called Street Outlaws Bayou coming Feb 22.
Very first, let’s all recall this is scripted reality TV. Street Outlaws is not a true drama or sitcom, nor is it a documentary…but something in the middle. That said, if you want organized, sactioned haul racing then you have a number of choices, e.g., IHRA, NHRA to see.
Street Outlaws’ past, present and future success is based on a duo factors; interesting personalities and good storylines, mixed in with an assortment of some very swift cars (notice I didn’t say street cars).
The vairious personalities that have developed over the seasons such as….Azen and Farm truck who are as nutty as they come, Jason “Big Chief” the quiet voice of reason, Doc the “Butthole”, Chuck who will drool and sucker punch you in a NY sec, the certain “Daddy Dave”, Monza the “Clint Eastwood, and Derek with his sleeve cutting antics…well you get the idea. Think about it, these are familiar characters that can be found on many successful TV shows.
Whether they race Pro-Mods, Imports or Street Rods, who cares…it’s a TV showcase designed to entertain and that it has done in spades.
BTW: It’s no one’s business how Justin paid for his fresh car, no more than it’s no one’s business how racers pay for their cars across the country. Go to NY, GA or MD and ask a racer how the hell they could afford to pay for their $150K race car, trailer and equipment.. If you do, I just hope your will is up to date.
I’m looking forward to the next season of Street Outlaws, and just maybe there will be someone crazy enough to bring the very first “Street Jet-Car” on the showcase.
My beloved scene was Farm Truck with a Jon Boat in tow racing a Turbo 911…OMG!! I laughed my butt off.. Superb Entertainment…indeed.
If someone is willing to form “A Team” with me and pitch in on costs, we can get a nice Rick Jones chassis, smack a nitromethane big block in it and predominate them all. We can even come up with cool nicknames like Lucifer & Baal.
I know where I can get my forearms on a helicopter jet engine… How about “Lucifer and Burner”.
We need a jr dragster to stick it in so we know we the lightest. 400Mph in a 8th, Two.2sec my guess
Agreed, but only if you let me strap you in this Jr Spacecraft…and you display me as the foot beneficiary for a $10mil insurance policy I take out on you. I’ll coordinate with the FAA, NASA and USAF. Your fresh Nickname is….”BLAZE” HA.
WELLLL in 2nd thought, maybe something a bit heaver is called for. I indeed like bringing the proverbial nuke to a spoken arguement. I would totally volunteer a S10 for this project and pilot it if anyone else wants to get in on project “Bad Idea”. A truck seems like best bet as you can climb on jet engine in bed
I found a ninety four S10 “BLAZER” on Craigslist….already painted with flames. All we need now is $250K…and a duo of cases of Old Milwaukee, Pabst Blue Ribbon and some Jack D to get embarked. I got this Blaze…
I dont drink but I insert energy drinks, gonna need a duo cases of em to be caffiene rushing so hard it will seem its a 50mph rail down the road. If yall serious I will shoot ya my email and I will holler at a few custom-built car shops and see what kind of funding we can get. If Chief and Kye can run promods with no questioning, we should be permitted to run this.
Well, let me get in contact with few shops, laid down the challenge to four hundred five already. Told them I am Texan so they most likely will accept challenge lol.
Back in the days I raced on the street, after a close call I eyed the light, get off the street, these fools are only providing ideas to youthful fools that will only find out the hard way that street racing is aganist the law. I love racing, but I only go to tracks now. They seem to think that a flash lite for a Christmas tree gives them the edge. Get on the track, run with the rest of us. I like some of the guys on the demonstrate, I just don’t like the message it sends our junior generation, the disclaimer on the beginning of the showcase is hardly a just one. They still break the law, it about like filming a bank robbery.
Media can and does have a negative impression on kids, teenagers and above. But, let’s face it…when I was sixteen (now 56), I was wrenching on a sixty nine GTO and working at a Whataburger to keep gas in it and spending every dime I made. Racing anything and anyone that I could…when I wasn’t pursuing chicks.
Generally speaking, today’s youth seem that they cannot go a minute without texting, Tweeting, Facebooking, or spending their time online playing movie games. The movie games Mommy and Daddy paid for.
From my anecdotal viewpoint I don’t see a gigantic movement of youth racing on the streets iresponsibility. I believe The Swift and Furious franchise would have been a fatter influence than this TV Showcase.. When I do go to the track, I see a large number of kids at Maryland International Raceway (MIR), doing as you suggest…with their Dad, Mom or adult figure coaching them..
Actually they don’t display the fact Discovery has secured renting the road just for the display and basically has a utter on race staffing on arm. Indeed think they could run a thirty two car Cash Days without police response? Certainly gives the youthfull ones bad ideas.
I will agree the display may be intertaning BUT. I can not stand the fact that the display is based on So called street racing. This is Not steer racing. It is pack sucked race cars that the are racing on a so called street. Real street racing is fully legal and drivable car that you can drive anywhere anytime and race at any givin time. I have raced for many years on the street and have seen some very rapid REAL street Cars. If you can’t drive your car to the local suspend out or on a date and you have to trailer it everywhere you go! Then you don’t need to be on the street Go to the track where you belong.
They have haul week now. 1,000 miles, four tracks, all that is permitted is a lil’ support trailer you have to pull with the car you are racing. No outside help vehicle is permitted. Think Hot Rod mag puts its on. Hoping to get a eighty five thunderbird finished for next year’s.
Concur with you 100%. It’s not true street racing…but you have to admit, it’s a quirky, at times bizare, very interesting and nutsack to the wall racing TV display. Again, not true street racing. If it was, I’m afraid I’d be bored to tears… You can see slew of true street racing on YouTube. After five mins of watching that…it’s time to witness a cat playing a piano. Ha. This showcase indeed is about the flawed characters and their misfit pals…otherwise, it would have never made it past the very first display. What other demonstrate even comes close?
If you recall the scene Kansas (I Think) pulled a track prep equipment out of a trailer and prepped their lane for a pro mod? The holder of the car has a YouTube movie up where he calls out the entire display for renting the road, closing it, sitting up lighting, medics and fire trucks on site etc AND PREPPING THE ROAD BEFORE CAMERAS ROLL! Not one fellow from showcase or Discovery called BS.
I like to see this Reality Display. There is nothing wrong if you want to trailer your car the the place they race or drive it… I would want to drive my 200,000 dollar car to a race Two,03,Four hudred miles to a streetrace. Would anybody with that much money in a car? Also I think Big Chief and anyone else on that showcase desreves every penny he or she may get from the discovery channel for putting on this display for us dragracers who love watching it…He just lost his 200,000 dolar car.. I don`t think he will break even for anytime soon.As for his car being close to a promod car… Look at what his competion is bringing Hurray for him….Goooo Street OutlawsI`m all for ya!
That’s just it! If you have a $200k car and can’t drive it on the street. And have to trailer it! It is a Race Car for the track! Period. NOT a street Car! The GT 40, Lambo, Ferrari and Others are more money but are street cars. If it is a Promod then trailer it to your nearest NHRA TRACK and film that! But it’s not Street racing!
It’s not street racing…it’s scripted TV…it’s designed to suck you in as a viewer and keep you coming back. Do you indeed think Chuck would be walking after drooling on another racer. Not in my circles…but it makes for good TV. I caught on after the very first showcase…it’s not street racing, but I observe it anyways and love the flawed characters…I do miss the old man with the gold mustang and his sons. That dude was always ready to rumble…and tumble. (LOL). The guys have a good thing going, and Discovery has a hit display. Yep, not street racing…but I don’t care. Bring on the bafoonery, crazy and whacked out characters. Besides those Pro-Mods were ample jokes compared to what comes to MIR in MD. But it’s ok, because 95% people who see the demonstrate most likely never seen a “real” low six 2nd Pro-Mod.
All of it’s a fucking joke the cars joke the showcase was a joke anyone thinks it’s reality sadly mistaken it promotes illegal racing. Any company that goes near this I won’t buy from. It puts a bad light on any of us that happen to do this that go out in the middle of nowhere at three o’clock in the morning and stay away from everything and everybody when are displaying some stupid clown in a two hundred hp Volkswagen driving on city streets acting like he’s racing some top end cars. Either the discovery channel is buying these idiots their cars or it’s drug money either way it’s a joke
Yeah, see that crushed Pontiac in that pile over there? Used to be the fastest car in the valley………………
Well maybe so, but not when Bad Bootie “Bayou Boy” Kye Kelly was in town…that is one rapid Crawdad. Maybe Crow II will vengeance it’s dead brother’s honor! I feel a grudge race in the near future…stay tuned.
Kye actually lives about Trio+ hrs from the border of Mississippi and Louisiana so he technically isn’t a bayou boy.
whats your point?
OK, I agree I do like the guys on the showcase. But! Let’s switch the name of the display to Pro-Mod Race Car Outlaws on the Street. And give Farm truck and AZN the REAL STREET outlaw Display. Since they actualy DRIVE their cars on the street!
I think they need a fresh spin off already (hate SO:NoLa) called True Street Outlaws. Make it a rule: If you cannot drive the car to the race, you cannot race. That’s how Haul Week is. Look at the caliber of guys who runs it. Five.5-6.1 cars making a 1,000 mile excursion to four different tracks two hundred fifty miles apart. The run, hook the car they are racing back up to their lil’ U-Haul size support trailer and pull it to next track.
It’s truly sad, I am one of Street Outlaws largest fans, yes being almost sixty years old the showcase has truly brought out the kid in me and the racing I did in my old chevy beater “with a Corvette engine”, I lost some, won most but more than anything else I had joy…but a Pro Mod, please, I am sorry to say to you, Master, you have ruined the showcase.
They would not have this Pro Mod problem if they had just not permitted them in the showcase. Stick to what embarked the display with street cars and no utter chassis cars. None of us want to see these guys die racing.
crowbird and judge….lousy names for a Pontiac….
Yeah man all I have to say is I loved the display. But I’m not sure if I will see it anymore it was street racing with bad booty street cars not tube chasis haul unwrap cars. I understand some people are bringing pro mods and they shouldn’t be aloud to race. The Crow was swift azz car kye Kelly may have hit it but look what it took him to do it in. Pro mods shouldn’t be on the street come on wtf. Cheif you shouldn’t of sold out. PS glad your ok and hope all the street outlaws squad and all racers out there have a merry Christmas.
I agree and disagree. All the cars were pro stock at best. All fiberglass but assets shell and tubes chassis. BUT that’s the kind of cars running illegal street races. Kye has a fiberglass (fully) Top Sportsman car. At least with steel bod you can walk away like DaddyDave and Chief did in the wrecks, in a promod, not so sure they could wiggle it off as effortless.
I have always liked the display but it twisted way off track. Pro Mods are not street cars. I hope Justin determines to brig the demonstrate back to what it was meant to be…. Street Racing ! !
If it’s going to be a Pro Mod showcase it should run along the lines of how ‘PINKS’ came across. Race at the track where the 200+ MPH cars belong….. Just my opinion !
The high dollar cars that Pinks began only using is what killed it as well.