#33 "Hemi" Joel Nystrom Blue 67 Plymouth GTX
Day 1: 13.64-101.9
Day 2: 13.81-99.9
Day 3: 13.64-100.8
Day 4: 13.88-98.8
Day 5: 13.83-99.1
Final Average: 13.765-100.12

It's the 33rd fastest mopar on Drag Week, Joel's "parade car" as he calls it. It's so much more than that. She's a rolling, living, breathing, history lesson, a legendary automobile from a time when a company would dare to put a nascar race engine in a personal luxury convertible! 17 were built. Let that sink in...seventeen, and here she was, rolling down America's mid-west back roads in front of the unwashed masses, shocked Grandpa's trying to explain to their grand kids the significance of the car! Something akin to seeing Kim Basinger wearing cutoffs in a Wal-Mart...


#32 MaryBeth "Talongirl" Kiczenski Blue 95 Eagle Talon
Day 1: 13.78-124.4
Day 2: 13.63-124.0
Day 3: 14.09-94.8
Day 4: 13.62-120.1
Day 5: 13.60-117.9
Final Average: 13.748-116.28

As the 124 mph trap speeds indicate, this car is much faster than 13.70's, but she's used to launching on street tires, and the Drag Week mandated sticky rubber caused a serious issue. It's a fine line leaving with all wheel drive, and needing rpm to keep the turbo'd 4 cylinder spooled up and happy. The new rubber didn't allow the wheel spin/speed needed to accomplish that, so bogging and lag plagued MaryBeth throughout the entire event.

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"Livin' in a powder keg and givin' off sparks" 4 Street cars, 5 Race engines