When he was 14, Bryan Castle saw a photograph of the '63 Chevy pickup his dad owned in high school. He soon discovered his ever-increasing desire to own a '60-66 Chevy C10 pickup as his first vehicle.

Chevy wanted in on the emerging performance pickup game in the early 1990s, so i's engineers took off-the-shelf parts and created the bad-ass Chevy 454 SS. Based on the half-ton C1500, the 454 SS ...