No, but the coincidence is pretty cool though.
Originally I was trying to think of something with blue or some shade of blue in the name, trying to work from names like Red Fox, Goldilocks, and Bad Penny (HotRod's Camaro that was a copper color), among others, but the blue names weren't very cool. I had a fantasy football team called the blue brutes a little over a decade ago, so Brutus was a bit of a stretch from that. Brutus is a far cooler name than Blue Brute.
It's definitely not as powerful as that GTO (tempest really) but it has far more power now than the factory 350 that was in it.