SpeedKore is the place celebrities shop for the most insane muscle car builds

Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
11 Jul 2019
1 min read

It takes a lot to stand out in Hollywood, and celebrities often turn to custom car builders to help them do this.

Robert Downey Junior was one such celebrity who commissioned the carbon-fibre wizards at SpeedKore to build him the baddest 1970 Boss 302 Mustang possible, featuring all-new suspension and a killer quad-cam fuel-injected 5.0-litre Coyote V8 from a new S550 Mustang.

Mr Downey Junior's Mustang was an insane hit when it debuted on the official Ford stand at the 2017 SEMA Show, leading Iron Man to commission SpeedKore to build another car, a '67 Chevy Camaro, for his Avengers frenemy Captain America. Sporting a supercharged 6.2-litre LS3 engine the blacked-out Chevy is the perfect contrast to the Mustang, helping seal those differences between the two legendary superheros.

Famous musicians like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Eddie Van Halen, and James Hetfield are all renowned car builders and collectors, so it should come as no surprise that SpeedKore also tricked up a Ford F150 pick-up truck for country star Brantley Gilbert. While this isn't like their full-carbon-bodied 950hp Dodge Charger, the tough truck is still guaranteed to stand out in a field of jacked up bro-dozers in Nashville.

Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.  For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.  Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions. Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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