What can you say about Rick Dobbertin’s J2000 that hasn’t already been said? Some people call it the pinnacle of Pro Street, some call it the car that put a stake in the heart in the Pro Street movement. Maybe those opinions are one and the same.
Rick Dobbertin debuted his 1985 Pontiac J2000 at the 1986 Car Craft Street Machine Nationals and set the world on fire. Throngs of people and even a TV news crew flocked to the car, as much a work of art as it was an engineering masterpiece. For the next couple of years, the car made the rounds at all the major shows, including the HOT ROD Supernationals and Super Cruise, then it disappeared from the scene. It had been hidden in a storage facility in Chicago until last September when
