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Title: A PERFECT RELATIONSHIP: TOMMY PIKE CUSTOMS
Duration: 2:15
Video name: A Perfect Relationship Tommy Pike Customs
[Video footage]
An antique “Ford” truck sits parked on a wooded road. Sunlight glints off the customized
pickup’s glossy paint and “Supercharged” engine. Later, bearing a “Quaker State” logo on
each door, the pickup truck cruises down a rural highway. Later, standing beside the truck, a
bald, goateed man wears sunglasses.
[Text displays]
Tommy Pike, Owner, Tommy Pike Customs.
[Audio]
TOMMY PIKE: Hi, I’m Tommy Pike. We’re here at Tommy Pike Customs in Greenville, South
Carolina. We are an automotive lifestyles business.
[Video footage]
Several custom vehicles sit parked along the side of his shop.
[Audio]
We do everything from full restorations to pretty much anything that our customers need or
desire. But we were looking for something that would be different, old school. It would be a
show piece, but almost an interactive showpiece. The wheels started turning, and six months
later, here we are with this incredible, awesome ’69 F100.
[Video footage]
Photos document the changes to the truck.
[Audio]
Yeah, well, so what we’ve done is we’ve gotten rid of the twin I-beam suspension, and we’ve
gone now four-wheel independent suspension, four-wheel disc brakes, small 800 horsepower
modern GM drivetrain. It would equate to being the CTSV Supercharged power plant. It’s got
the Eaton 1.9 liter blower on it with all forced internals. CNC ported heads. Huge pulleys. I
mean, huge boost pulleys so that we’re making upwards of 20 pounds plus of boost on this
thing. It’s just all the way there. I mean, anything that we could throw at it, we threw at it.
[Video footage]
On the wooded road, the truck sits parked with its hood propped open.
[Audio]
It’s just a really nice compact, high horsepower motor. And pretty much just the best of the
best as far as modern components, so this thing runs and drives and rides like a modern car.
[Video footage]
Quaker State products stand on display inside Pike’s automotive shop.
[Audio]
My father used Quaker State. I mean, Quaker State is old school. My father was old school. I
like to think of myself as being old school. So, that being said, we do a lot of old school builds,
but yet we make them very relevant.
[Video footage]
A man buffs and waxes an antique car to a glossy shine.
[Audio]
And with the Quaker State brand now, their whole product lineup has been changed and
revamped and modernized. Their technology is just incredible. So it does give us added
horsepower. It does give us added fuel economy. And it’s kind of just like us. It’s old school,
but with a modern twist. And that’s the thing I like most about it, and why it’s a perfect
relationship.
[Video footage]
As the setting sun shines through leafless trees, Tommy drives the custom pickup along a rural
road.
[Text displays]
A Perfect Relationship, Tommy Pike Customs.