Project Salt Shaker
Clocking more than 267 mph, Banks Twin-Turbo Trans Am breaks Banks’ own 1981 record for World’s Fastest Passenger Car 1986 Banks Pontiac Trans Am World Record 260.212
January 1, 1986
225 mph Banks Twin-Turbo GT
“225 MPH? From a gasoline-powered street legal automobile? That’s incredible!” Yes, but not impossible. Yet that’s what a lot of people say when they first learn about
January 1, 1985
Banks Pontiac Trans Am
A street-legal Pontiac Trans Am with 700-hp and a Banks turbo breaks the 200 mph barrier and becomes a cover story for Car & Driver magazine. The
January 1, 1984
King Sting
Jim Denooyer posted top speed on Saturday, everybody said the engines were set on kill and would never last in Sundays marathon and two years in a
January 1, 1984
200 mph Trans Am
A street-legal Pontiac Trans Am with 700-hp and a Banks turbo breaks the 200 mph barrier and becomes a cover story for Car & Driver magazine. The
January 1, 1984
S-1 Express
Key West, Florida — After clinching the ‘Offshore II’ National Championship and setting the APBA Kilo Record at 114.141 mph, Butch Ryan’s ‘Express’ goes on to dominate
February 23, 1982
Peter Minallas’ 1100hp Trans Am sleeper
Custom one-off project 1,100 horsepower Trans Am sleeper! Peter Minallas came from Johannesburg wanting a 240 mph, street sleeper. Banks complied and Minallas set the record at
January 1, 1982
Sundowner Corvette
Banks Twin-Turbo 454 powers ’68 Corvette to 240.738 mph, to become World’s Fastest Passenger Car Banks twin-turbo 454 powers a ‘68 Corvette to 240.738 mph at Bonneville,
January 1, 1981
Performance Odyssey
Can you put a turbo’d V6 in a boat? That was the question General Motors asked Gale Banks … you can guess his answer!
July 14, 1979
Reg Benton’s Export Lion
Gale Banks turbocharged engines completely dominated the 1978 edition of the New Zealand Citizen Jet Boat Marathon by powering boats that finished 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th.
December 13, 1978