What is your life dream? What is a life dream? It is the vision that has consumed you since your youth. It is the aspiration that stirs your soul, inspires your greatest passion, motivate your best efforts and to which you subordinate all other endeavors.

For BKPE founder, Tim Barrett, this dream was born in 1986 when, at the age of 17, he got an awe-inspiring ride in a highly-modified 1969 SS/RS454 Camaro. All true gearheads understand the sensations -- the roar of thumping horsepower, the smell of melting rubber, and the palpitation-inducing acceleration -- and how they become an intoxicating siren. From that day on, automobiles were Tim’s mania.

In 2005, Tim Barrett and his wife, Kathy Barrett, founded BKPE to fulfill Tim’s life dream: to design, engineer and build the world’s most extreme performance cars. From the greatest of the muscle cars of yesteryear to the latest Über-cars being built by General Motors, Ford and Chrysler and beyond, the goal of BKPE is to retro-engineer performance into the 21st century. Thus, BKPE exists to provide our clients with vehicles that accelerate quicker, move faster, handle better, stop shorter, sound more aggressive and that are more pleasing to the eye than any other vehicle on the road.

As BKPE began to design its line of the world’s greatest production vehicles, it became apparent that many muscle car aficionados want to build their own vehicles without having to go to the expense of destroying and then restoring a factory-built car. These folks would need a complete kit of all necessary parts for a basic kit and then dozens of options to equip their kits as they desire. From this was born the Turn-Key Muscle Car Kit. Simply pick and then design a the muscle car of your wildest imagination at www.TURNKEYMUSCLECARS.com and in due course, a tractor-trailer will arrive at your facility with everything you need to build it. Nothing could be simpler.

As BKPE began to build its supply chain for the muscle cars its builds and its Turn-Key Muscle Car kits, it became obvious that the muscle car community needed a new kind of parts store. This new kind of parts store would carry more than restoration parts, it would carry the most comprehensive line of pro-touring and resto-mod parts available on the market. Indeed, to make it even more comprehensive, we designed our store to incorporate the creativity of the tuner world and the craftsmanship of the hot rod world. From our store our customers could make their wildest vision for the baddest muscle car of their choosing a reality. And they could do this all at the guaranteed lowest price. From this unmet need came the Black Knight Performance Parts Superstore. Designed for the do-it-yourselfer who knows exactly what he wants to build or wants to browse our huge selection for new ideas among the state-of-the-art in muscle car parts, www.BKSUPERSTORE.com is your one-stop shop for all your muscle car desires.

Because our heart will always be with the muscle car, our researching, designing and building these amazing cars has allowed us to amass knowledge and wisdom, information BKPE desires to share with the muscle car community. Of course, we are not the only ones with such information, and so we wanted to create an on-line community where muscle car enthusiasts could learn, share and socialize with other muscle car enthusiasts. Out of this came the idea for the Muscle Car Matrix. At www.MUSCLECARMATRIX.com you can find the standard de-coding and options information found on other sites, but you will also get restoration and technical information, the latest muscle car news, restoration and modification how-tos, a muscle car yellowpages, a muscle car-centered forum and much, much more. If it concerns the muscle car, you will find it in the Muscle Car Matrix. Stay tuned as this exciting project develops.

In interacting with the muscle car community, it did not take long to realize that there is still a great need for our fellow-gearheads, each of whom have their own cars and their own visions for how they want their cars to look and perform, to have access to master designers and craftsmen to build their cars. To fill this need we started Black Knight Customs, Inc. Literally, a one-stop shop for any restoration, customization or modernization project. Black Knight Customs, Inc., can meet any need within the community to improve any aspect of any car. If you can dream it, we can design and build it. The first step for the fulfillment of that dream starts at www.BKCUSTOMCARS.com.