I've been meaning to do a long write-up on this car, but I just havne't had the time. So I think I'll start the story of this car here on this thread and add little bits and pieces as I can find the time.
The owner of the car is a friend of mine from Las Vegas, AJ Greco. He contacted me out of the blue several years ago, looking for my help to acquire a Lingenfelter Impala SS that was near me. He bought the car and then proceeded to do amazing things to it. But let's talk about the SRT8!
AJ called me this summer with an idea to build a modern hot rod based on the SRT8 and show it at SEMA. The problem was, his local dealer wanted more than $40K over sticker! I made a quick phone call to a great dealership in Langhorn, PA (Reedman) and hooked him up with an SRT8 at sticker. When it came in, a couple months later, we didn't have much time to get things ready for SEMA. So we went right to work.
With zero miles on the odometer, the car was taken by flatbed to Kooks Custom Headers in Bay Shore, New York. George Kook, the owner, had just taken delivery of a new SRT8 and was planning to build a complete set of headers and exhaust using his car as the test fixture. Since we were on a tight schedule, AJ's SRT8 was used instead. The very first set of Kooks headers and exhaust was done about 3 weeks later and the car was then transported (still with less than 5 miles on the odometer!) to Texas for the remaining work.
The very first set of Kooks SRT8 headers, prior to installation on our project SRT8
When the car was shown at SEMA, George Kook came by to check it out at the Chrysler booth.
From left - George Kook Sr., AJ Greco (the owner of the SRT8), George Kook Jr, unknown