S1 Ep305: Reeves Callaway: How Duct Tape Made a Corvette the Fastest Car in the World
Past Gas
Donut Media
4.9 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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This week on Past Gas, we’re looking at the life of Reeves Callaway — the fine arts major who got expelled for hot-rodding his Austin Healey and went on to build some of the fastest, strangest, and coolest cars GM ever sold. From Alfa Romeos to Aston Martins, from Range Rovers to Mazdas, and of course the Corvette Sledgehammer — it’s the story of Reeves Callaway, the man who proved a roll of tape could change automotive history.
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| 1:48.0 | past gas. |
| 1:50.0 | Hey, how you doing, everybody? |
| 1:51.1 | Welcome back to the show. |
| 1:51.9 | This week, we're talking about Callaway, the purveyors of some of the coolest corvettes and |
| 1:57.0 | escalades and trucks and a lot of other sports cars in the world. |
| 2:01.3 | Reese Callaway started out doing some cart racing, |
| 2:04.2 | did some open wheel racing, |
| 2:05.8 | then put a turbo on a BMW, and that changed his whole life. |
| 2:09.9 | So let's get right into it. |
| 2:11.8 | It's Callaway on past gas. |
| 2:15.3 | In October of 1988, NHRA driver and Hall of Fame engine builder John Lingenfelter |
| 2:21.3 | climbed behind the wheel of a 1988 Chevy Corvette and carefully pulled out of the Callaway |
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