What is one thing that most car enthusiasts have in common? We want to be unique. Whether it is through the car we drive or the way we modify said car, many of us pride ourselves on doing something just a little bit different than the guy parked next to us at the car show.

Adam explains why he wanted to stick to the Syclone’s turbo 6 roots.

Building something that is unique and our own can prove to be somewhat of a challenge at times. Speaking as an ex first generation CTS-V owner, your author can truly relate to this lack-of-aftermarket phenomena. Personally I thought that I had it bad with the price gouging, but then again I had never considered building a GMC Syclone and keeping the stock Engine.

Not only were the the parts scarce, they were almost nearly nonexistent. Drive host Matt Farah worded it well by saying that building the truck was a “huge game of trial and error” as opposed to going for the ever popular LS swap option. Why would anyone want to do such a thing?

Well, back in the day owner Adam Auerbach was inspired by a car that we know as the Buick Grand National owned by a friend of Adam. This motivated him to build something in the family. We must say that the bad ass results yielded from this decision make us happy that he chose this path.

The pickup was built on the idea of having the ultimate hill climb/time trial machine. The outcome of this plan was 500 AWHP with a low 10-second quarter mile time to match. Another snazzy feature of this truck is that what was once only produced as a automatic has now been converted to a manual trans.

We must say that if being unique was Auerbach’s goal, he has most definitely met it. There were fewer than 3000 Syclones ever produced and we probably aren’t going out on a limb by saying that there are none like this.