Here at Street Legal TV, we love sharing stories of cool rides that we find on the internet, or see at car shows. Sometimes those cars are local, other times they might be on the other side of the country. But no matter where these cars reside, they all have one thing in common: they belong to a gearhead, a car nut, an enthusiast, or whatever you want to call it, and they are the pride and joy of the owner.

We reached out to a couple of our readers recently and asked them to share a little information about their favorite car. Every month we’re going to feature Reader’s Wheels – a look at what people like you are driving. We’ll get an email set up that we’ll have at the end of each article, with some instructions for you, so we can hopefully get your wheels featured here on Street Legal TV. Check at the end of this article to get information on how you can get your wheels featured here in the future.

2005 Ford Mustang GT

Car owner: Darin Back
Engine: Supercharged 4.6L
Trans: Tremec T-56 Magnum 6-speed

Darin Back, from Canyon Lake, California, first bought his Mustang because he needed a reliable daily driver for work, but he also wanted something that was going to be fun to drive on the weekends, too. Being a Ford fan, the Mustang was a given, and after searching for a couple of weeks he found this 2005 GT.

It already had an Eibach sport suspenstion kit and was in great shape, but it didn’t take long before he decided to beef up the performance a little. One of the first modifications was to add a Kenne Bell supercharger to the 4.6L, and that upped the performance to close to 430 RWHP. With all that added go power, the car needed to be able to stop as well as it could accelerate, so he added a Saleen big brake kit.

The car originally had the stock Ford 5-speed trans, but a Tremec T-56 Magnum 6-speed was added last year. Other upgrades include an SCT tuner and a brake cooling duct kit, and all of these parts get put to the test, because not only does Darin drive this car for work, but he also races it at local race tracks.

This is the kind of musclecar we like to see: one that gets driven, and driven hard! And after a weekend of racing and pushing it to it’s limits, it’s back to its weekly duties of getting Darin to and from work. Awesome Mustang, Darin!

1949 Chevrolet Styline De Luxe

Car owner: Ed Stutler
Engine: 1994 LT1 upgraded to 1997 LT4
Trans: 4L60E

Ed Stutler built and modified this ’49 Chevrolet in his own shop at home in Iowa. The first and most obvious modification noticeable from the outside is the super-wide rear tires, which required a bit of sheet metal work to the trunk floor to accept the mini tubs.

Open the hood, and a modified LT1 is in between the fenders. Ed upgraded the ’94 LT1 with a top end kit to transform it into a ’97 LT4 Corvette engine. Backing up the 350 cubic inch V-8 is a modern 4L60E transmission, sending the power to a Ford 9-inch rearend spinning 3.53 gears.

Keeping the car visible day or night is the DuPont Centari 1972 Chevy fleet orange paint that Ed applied himself. He also upgraded the frame with a 1968 Nova subframe that he modified and narrowed, all in his workshop.

Ed now lives in California where he’s a part of three different car clubs, now that he’s retired. He regularly drives the car to cruise nights and car shows; and he’s currently working on another gem: a 1967 Pontiac Firebird that’s getting a full restoration. Impressive work, Ed!

1967 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S

Car owner: Bob Gough
Engine: 1969 340
Trans: Tremec TKO 500 5-speed

Bob Gough has been a Mopar fan forever. As editor of his local Mopar club newsletter, the PentaGram, he gets to see and learn about a lot of cool Mopars from other club members in San Diego, California. But Bob has a couple of Mopars of his own, one of which is this 1967 Barracuda Formula S that he restored himself back in 1999.

The Barracuda originally came with a 273 cubic inch small block, air conditioning, and an automatic transmission. The air conditioner stayed, but the 273 was replaced with a built ’69 340 V-8, and the auto trans was pulled out – and an extra pedal added – so the Tremec 5-speed overdrive manual trans from Keisler Engineering could back up the small block.

As clean and meticulous as this car looks on the outside, the truth about this Formula S is that it’s driven pretty hard, not only on multi-day vintage car rallys, but it’s also seen a couple of off-road excursions on some of those rallys, requiring extensive clean up to get it show ready for the next day.

Bob has also taken this car down the 1320 a couple of times, lining up with a friend and his 426 HEMI Satellite. Bob loves driving the car, but feels the 5-speed has really transformed it into the musclecar that it’s meant to be. Great job on the restoration, Bob!

Do you want your wheels featured here?

If you like the idea of seeing your own car here on Street Legal TV, and you want to share it with friends and family all over the country, then all you have to do is send us some information about you and your car. Tell us what you’re driving, because we want to know! Now, there are some basic rules here so we want to make sure that you are actually able to drive your car, it can’t be sitting on jack stands or cinder blocks.

Your car doesn’t have to be a show car, but it has to be driven – whether it’s your daily driver or a weekend cruiser that you take to car shows and car cruises. It must be an American car, or a car that’s powered by an American engine; so it can be a V-6 or V-8 swap, but the power has to come from an American engine. It can be stock, restored, a resto-mod, or even a complete custom build. If it’s a project that you worked on in order to get it back on the road, even better!

This is our first entry, so give us some feedback below in the comments section and tell us what you think. We have three more cars lined up for next month, but if you would like to see your own car featured here in Reader’s Wheels then shoot us an email to: wheels@powerautomedia.com. Send us one picture of your car, and tell us about it, and we’ll contact you for more information and pictures.