By Paul Ranney, DMD | August 05, 2026

You have probably been watching Kevin Tetz on television for years, whether it was on the hit show Trucks! on Spike TV or his Hands On Cars series. GearHeadTour had the chance to visit Kevin at his Nashville-area studio and build shop to get an up-close look at one of his wildest projects: C-Tane, a pro-touring 1967 Chevy C10 pickup.

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So, why C-Tane?

Cetane rating is a measurement used with diesel fuel, somewhat like octane rating is used with gasoline. Kevin’s truck is a C10. C10… cetane… C-Tane.

You get it.

And the name became especially appropriate once the engine showed up.

Kevin was still early in the C10 project when his friend and fellow TV personality Ian Johnson of Big Tire Garage mentioned that he had a 5.0-liter Cummins V8 turbo-diesel from a Nissan Titan XD sitting around his shop.

Because apparently some people have old lawnmowers sitting in the corner of the garage, and Ian Johnson has spare Cummins diesel engines.

The idea was simple enough: Why not put it in the C10?

Of course, “put it in” turned out to be a little more involved than your average Saturday afternoon engine swap.

Instead of simply hanging the Cummins over the front wheels, Kevin moved the engine roughly two feet rearward. The aggressive setback pushed the weight distribution very close to 50/50, turning what started life as a conventional Chevy pickup into something much closer to a purpose-built pro-touring machine.

And the rest of the truck was built to match.

C-Tane sits on a Schwartz Performance G-Machine chassis with modern suspension, a full-float 9-inch rear end and serious Baer brakes. The Cummins was also upgraded from its original Nissan Titan XD configuration, including a single turbo setup. In its finished form, the combination has been reported at roughly 600 horsepower and around 1,000 lb-ft of torque.

That is a fairly healthy amount of torque for a 1967 pickup.

Or a tugboat.

The truck rides on massive 18×12-inch wheels wrapped in 335-series BFGoodrich tires, giving you a pretty good indication that C-Tane wasn’t built simply to idle through the local Cars & Coffee parking lot. The chassis, engine placement, brakes and tire package were all aimed at making this thing actually work on a track.

That’s what makes C-Tane so interesting. Diesel swaps aren’t new. Pro-touring C10s certainly aren’t new. But combining a classic Chevy pickup, a Nissan-sourced Cummins V8 diesel, a massive engine setback and a modern performance chassis creates something completely different.

It’s weird.

It’s excessive.

And that’s probably why we like it.

Check out our video for a complete walkaround of Kevin Tetz’s C-Tane, including a look under the hood, inside the truck and underneath at the chassis that makes the whole crazy thing work.

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You can also check out another piece of classic American muscle we’ve featured: this 1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1 powered by a 428 Cobra Jet big block.

Because apparently we have a difficult time leaving perfectly reasonable vehicles alone.