In a small town in northern Michigan, there is a man making waves in drag racing, and more specifically, he’s got the LS community’s attention. You may know him from Instagram and YouTube, Kenny Dangler’s passion for fast cars runs deep. When he’s not trying to set records on the track, he spends his time building high-performance cars and trucks for customers at his shop, Northern Performance Cars in Gaylord, Michigan.
Kenny’s third-gen Camaro is one of the nicest we’ve come across. Careful attention has been paid to every detail of this car from front to rear.
Humble Beginnings
Kenny describes Northern Performance Cars as a small shop but told us it has given him the opportunities to do some cool stuff and to grow over the years. “I had a tough start, but it’s smooth sailing now,” Kenny said. He has always been a Camaro guy with a fondness for cars from 1982-1992. So it’s no surprise Kenny chose a third-gen Camaro as the basis for what is his biggest and most involved build to date.
Being his first complete chassis build, Kenny nailed the stance on his Camaro.
Before this build, Kenny had put together some all-steel all-glass type cars that were plenty quick. Although he refers to his previous cars as bolt-together with minor fabrication, don’t be mistaken, his Fox Body Mustang ran 4.38 seconds in the eighth mile. “I’ve had several fast cars, but this is the first chassis car I’ve built,” Kenny said. “I’ve done some great builds in the past and have taken what I learned from the previous cars to build something better each time.” This latest project took him two years to complete, but technically, only six months to build. According to Kenny, parts delays held things up extensively. “I could have had the car completed last year, but it took a year to get some of the parts,” Kenny explained.
Kenny Has A “Built Not Bought” Mindset
With everything needed finally under the Northern Performance Cars’ roof, Kenny got to work with intensity. When it comes to race cars on this level, certain aspects of the build are typically outsourced to different experts that specialize in one area of the car. That is not the case here, as Kenny is very proud of the fact that he and his team are responsible for the entire build. “I built every single part on the car in-house other than the transmission, which I purchased from FTI,” Kenny said.
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