If you’ve seen “Disco Dean” Karns on Discovery Channel’s hit show “Street Outlaws No Prep Kings” (NPK), or on the $10K Drag Shootout, you know he’s far from subtle. So, it shouldn’t be any surprise that when Dean decided to bring out a new NPK car it would be two things: pink in color, and totally over the top.
Dean’s new CTS-V is an eye-catching ride that’s going to be a player in the no-prep world.
The CTS-V wasn’t on Dean’s radar at all when he was thinking about building a new car. Inspiration for the Caddy came from research he had done for his girlfriend Lindsey’s new street car.
“Lindsey had been looking at the two-door CTS coupes for a long time. The car just wasn’t practical for the family at the time since it really couldn’t haul anything. I started looking for one and saw that the smaller V-6 engines weren’t that good, but she decided that she wanted a CTS-V, and I wasn’t sure if she was ready for something like that. We put it on the back-burner, and she actually ended up getting a Camaro. I noticed how aerodynamic the CTS-V was, that it had a good wheelbase, and it grew on me as a race car. Between that, and we joked about having a pink Cadillac like the song, it just started to make sense, so we built one,” Dean says.
Dean didn’t have the budget to build a totally new chassis, but he did have the funds to purchase a wrecked chassis that needed some TLC. A Jerry Haas car that had been involved in a small scuffle with the retaining wall was purchased to serve as the skeleton for the CTS-V. Dean went to a local junkyard and purchased a totaled CTS-V. The wrecked body, along with the chassis was brought to Larry Houck at Houck Fab. Houck started the surgery by gutting the CTS-V and grafting its shell onto the repaired chassis.
The 521 cubic-inch BAE HEMI and Rossler TH400 transmission were transplanted into the chassis to give the CTS-V a heartbeat. Now that the Cadillac was running, it was time to make it…
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