Street Outlaws’ Chuck 55 Doubles Up with New Screw-Blown NPK Car

A mainstay in the Discovery Channel’s multiple “Street Outlaws” series since its inception, Chuck Parker aka “Chuck 55” definitely made some noise on the no-prep circuit with his bright red 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air. Now, Parker is twinning as he recently doubled down with a second ’55 Chevy and revealed a clone of the original – but the newest one is sporting a screw-blown combination instead of Parker’s traditional big-cubic-inch nitrous engine.

As a teenager, Parker regularly raced on the streets of Oklahoma. He ran heads-up at local tracks and started racing in no-prep events in other states such as Texas, Kansas, and Missouri. “We were doing no-prep when no-prep racing wasn’t cool,” laughed Parker, who raced with James “Birdman” Finney, the Bird Brothers’ Jerry Bird, Kye Kelley, Chris “BoostedGT” Hamilton, and others.

By the time “Street Outlaws” first debuted on the small screen in 2013, Parker was already a veteran of no-prep racing. “At the time, I had the second version of The ’55 and it had a 632 cubic inch nitrous-fed engine. The first year racing the combination, I think I won somewhere around 13 events,” he recalled. “My first big payout was a $25,000 Bounty Hunters No Prep in San Antonio – as I recall, I raced Birdman in the finals.”

As no-prep racing gained popularity, the “Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings” (NPK) series began and it quickly became the biggest no-prep series in the circuit. With a 115-inch wheelbase, Parker’s Tri-Five is definitely on the larger end of the spectrum when it comes to cars in the field, and he faced a challenge in getting the hefty Chevy down to the weight he was permitted to run with his nitrous combination. “They don’t call them ‘a shoebox’ for no reason,” added Parker.

“I was carrying a few extra hundred pounds of weight,” commented Parker, who knew a change was needed. Parker also knew that to keep his car competitive, he had to make more power or switch to a smaller, more aerodynamic car.

Having been branded as “Chuck 55,” there were no questions as to what make and model he would choose for his new “Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings” build. “I knew it couldn’t be anything else. ‘Chuck Camaro’ just doesn’t have the same ring to it,” he joked.

Parker commissioned the team at Larry Jeffers Race Cars (LJRC) to construct the double framerail ’55 Chevy chassis, certified to run as quick as 6.0-seconds in the 1/4-mile, under…