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New Product: 1963-1987 C10 Chassis *both* “Classic” & “Pro-Touring” Available Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr2jjOQoYGg The long wait for the 1963-1987 C10 Chassis is over! Even better, both standard and stepped rail chassis options are available right now! Total Cost Involved is proud to offer you our new and complete 1963-1987...
2021 Optima Ultimate Street Car – Willow Springs
2021 Optima Ultimate Street Car.......errr Truck We recently hung out with Sean Kelly Jr. & Sr. at the Ultimate Street Car Association event at Willow Springs Raceway. What a great Father/Son team these two make. Sean had ran the Vegas USCA event earlier this year...
2021 NMCA #3 – The Boss Man ‘Sal’ wins both days
2021 NMCA #3 - Sal driving our '71 Camaro aka #ProjectReddawn takes home two plaques The epic battle between Sal in Reddawn and Efrain driving Ed's '67 Mustang ended with Sal coming out on top both days. Sal came out swinging early on Saturday and quickly took the...
2021 Pro Touring Truck Shootout ‘West’ – Sean Kelly podiums in the highly contested T1 Class
2021 Pro Touring Truck Shootout 'West' In its 2nd year the 2021 Pro Touring Truck Shootout is gaining popularity. This would be the first year for an event on the West Coast. Held at the world renowned Wild Horse Pass but more commonly known as Firebird Raceway. The...
2021 NMCA #2 – Sean & Efrain win & Andy Mule has his best finish ever
2021 NMCA #2 The second NMCA event of the year showed just how competitive this group of cars & trucks has gotten. In a tight battle in every class the winners didn't have much of a comfort zone. Sean Kelly in his #TCIequipped '67 stepside C10 won the Truck class...
2021 Inaugural Falken Tire Autocross Challenge
Racing Byrds and Falken Tire Autocross Challenge When the Racing Byrds came to us about joining them for another Autocross series we were pretty much immediately "IN". When we found out that it would include qualifying and a shootout we were very excited to join the...
TCI dominates 1st NMCA Autocross of 2021
TCI dominates 1st NMCA Autocross of 2021. Not only finished with 7 cars in the top 10 on Saturday, 5 of the top 6 on Sunday, all three podium spots on Sunday but also had the fastest car on the property both days. Chad Ryker, piloting our '67 Mustang was able to do...
2020 NMCA #5 – 2 wins and a whole bunch of fun
2020 NMCA #5 - Sal & Efrain come away with wins in Classic Muscle & Classic Muscle Pro Our VP of Operations Sal Solorzano came out swinging Saturday morning. On only his 2nd lap of the day he moved into 1st place in Classic Muscle. As the day progressed he not...
2020 NMCA Autocross #4 – 4 wins in two days
2020 NMCA #4 Autocross Chad Ryker pulled out the Double Win for the 2nd time this year. Only this time he was driving our Founder & President's '67 Mustang. https://youtu.be/hOEA8RaZTAI The Truck class may be small compared to Classic Muscle but there is no...