'Bipolar' Is I95 Motorsports' Gold-Plated 1975 Caprice, and Every Nut and Bolt Is Part of the Show

Most show donks have gold somewhere. Bipolar has gold everywhere. According to duPont REGISTRY's January 2024 write-up, the gold-plated parts on this 1975 Chevrolet Caprice convertible include everything under the hood and all the nuts and bolts. The seller's listing says the gold runs "down to the bolts and screws." That is not a figure of speech on this car. It is the spec sheet.

Bipolar came out of I95 Motorsports, the South Florida shop founded by Kenny Lewis, whom Road & Track describes as widely considered a pioneer in the big-wheel field. The car went through a frame-off build at the shop, and the listing says it took more than two years. In 2023 it won Best Donk at the Rick Ross Car Show in the Atlanta area, duPont reported, and in January 2024 it went up for sale through Wires Only on duPont REGISTRY.

The shop behind it

Lewis has been around donks long enough to remember the old way. He told Road & Track he noticed them as a teenager, with their candy paint, Cragar 30-spoke wheels and Vogue tires. He is also a purist about the name. "Monte Carlos, Cutlasses, the Rivs, they're not Donks," Lewis said. "It's only a specific car that's a Donk." Road & Track located his shop in Oakland Park, Florida.

He and other early builders spent the 2000s figuring out how to make big wheels fit at all, as Road & Track's history of the scene explains. With no aftermarket suspension to buy, Lewis said he put Jeep straight front axles in probably hundreds of cars. "Nobody was going to make us a spring," he told the magazine. Large-diameter, low-profile tires and proper suspension kits changed that, and the cars got lower and better engineered.

Bipolar is what that experience looks like with a no-limits budget: tucked wheels, modern brakes and suspension, and finish work you have to bend down to appreciate. It also fits a trend Miami's Donk Day founder Ree S. described to Highsnobiety in 2025, when he said builders had moved from paint, interior and motor to taking bodies off frames and painting the bellies of the cars. A frame-off build like this one is how the top shops compete now.

Gold down to the bolts

Start with the paint. duPont describes an immaculate color-shifting green finish with a matching canvas top. The seller's listing calls it a chameleon paint job that changes from red to green to gold depending on the light. In photos the car reads deep green in shade and goes gold along the body lines in the sun.

The wheels are gold 26-inch Forgiato wires. The listing calls them 24K gold plated, along with the bumpers, grille and trim. Behind them, according to duPont, sit six-piston, 14-inch Baer brakes. The suspension parts are gold plated too: Global West components, Viking coilovers and Strange ladder bars.

Inside, the factory interior is gone. duPont describes green leather with gold trim, a custom gold Forgiato steering wheel wrapped in green leather, and a trunk given over to a big audio system with subwoofers, green LEDs and sound controls. The listing adds a custom dashboard and custom lighting.

The LT4 under the gold

Under the gold-plated hood, the factory 350 is long gone. duPont reports a supercharged LT4 V8 in its place, with a Wegner Automotive drive system, a color-matched engine lid, billet engraved valve covers and a custom stainless steel exhaust with electronic cutouts. The seller's listing claims 850 horsepower.

One detail does not line up. When duPont covered Rick Ross's 2024 show, it referred back to the car as a "$429K 1975 Chevy Caprice Classic 454 nicknamed 'Bipolar.'" The listing and duPont's own earlier write-up both describe the LT4 swap, so the 454 reference looks like a slip rather than a different engine.

Champion, then for sale

Bipolar's win at the 2023 Rick Ross Car Show matters in big-wheel circles. Ross's show at his Promise Land estate in the Atlanta area has become one of the scene's highest-profile stages, and duPont reported that the 2024 edition drew more than 12,000 people. I95 Motorsports came back that year as reigning champions with a new car, a 1973 Caprice called Olive Oyl, which took Donk of the Year.

Bipolar, meanwhile, was for sale. duPont's January 2024 story put the price at $429,000. As of early November 2026, the Wires Only listing on duPont REGISTRY shows $369,000 and 412 miles. A car this specialized is a hard thing to price, and the drop says as much about the market for six-figure donks as it does about this one.

What it does not change is the build. Bipolar is a good snapshot of where the top of the donk world landed after 20 years of experimenting: a 1975 Caprice that sits right on 26s, stops on modern brakes, runs a modern supercharged V8 and looks, from any angle, like it was dipped in gold. Kenny Lewis told Road & Track the form has matured. This is what that looks like.