New Screw-Blown S550 Mustang for No Prep Kings’ Giuseppe Gentile

From his years spent on the West Coast class racing circuit to his debut on television’s big stage with the Discovery Channel’s “Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings” (NPK) series, Giuseppe Gentile has always brought the heat. Now, he’s turned the wick up once again with an all-new, screw-blown S550 Ford Mustang that was purpose-built for the NPK ranks.

The Southern California native got his start on the streets of the San Fernando Valley in the mid-1990s and would often race late into the night with friends. His first car, a Mustang, instilled a love of the platform that never once waned as the years progressed. Eventually, Gentile transitioned to the track and began running with the PSCA, where he set multiple records and was one of the first in his area to pioneer turbo technology with his small-block combination.

“I took a few years off around 2011 but got back into racing in 2016 when Robert Remillard called and we partnered on building another Mustang,” noted Gentile of his infamous twin turbo New Edge SN95 Mustang. “I started running with [Jay] Boddie in his grudge racing series and won a championship, and someone told me to look into Street Outlaws.”

Gentile and Remillard converted their SN95 to a big-tire car and competed at their first “Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings” race during season three in 2019. Gentile made it all the way through to the final round, but Ryan Martin took home the win that weekend. Gentile continued on with a very competitive car and made several more appearances over the following months.

“We knew we didn’t have the right car for it, though,” he shared of what prompted the decision to put together a purpose-built platform for NPK in 2019. “Me and Robert got together and discussed the best combination, wheelbase, and a bunch of other things. I’ve always been a Ford guy, so we opted to stick with the Mustang.”

The racing partners picked up a Jerry Bickel-built chassis, then hit up a junkyard in Sun Valley to source the actual VIN-equipped 2016 Ford Mustang. It was a ton of work to cut the body off the sixth-generation pony car and graft it onto the Bickel armature, but the final result was well worth the effort.

Thanks to helping hands from Gentile’s uncle “Pino” Adante and friends such as Ryan “Junior” Shoftle, Jack Remillard, Troy Baugh, and Job Spetter, the bulk of the build was performed at Gentile’s home in his two-car garage. One of the easiest aspects of it all, though, was…