It is crazy how quick the cars have gotten in the last 5-10 years. It used to be a car in the 10's would be competitive in the heads up, street tire class. Now guys are in the 7's and 8's with turbo combo's that are the norm.  I still like going out on Friday grudge nights and thumping some late model muscle. The sad part is, it takes a power adder on top of a BB stroker to keep up with late model muscle anymore. I've ran some of the local street car shootouts and do very well if there is a non power adder class. Against the boosted and nitrous cars, not so much. In fact if they're only running one class I stay home. No point beating on my junk with power adder cars running deep in the 5's in the field. Exactly why I went to nitrous. There are no all motor street car classes around here. I was ALWAYS the only one running NA. I did better than expected in a few races, but it got old. So I stepped up and got a whole lot faster, but it still isn't nearly enough. Several 4 sec street cars show up to these shootouts, but I still raced for the fun of it. Now not so much...too many rule changes and BS.
CHIP
'70 hemicuda, 575" Hemi, 727, Dana 60
'69 road runner, 440-6, 18 spline 4 speed, Dana 60
'71 Demon, 340, low gear 904, 8.75
'73 Chrysler New Yorker, 440, 727, 8.75
'90 Chevy 454SS Silverado, 476" BBC, TH400, 14 bolt
'06 GMC 2500HD LBZ Duramax
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