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| Burnout of the event came from Stan Allen in the Bankston family's PN '68 Camaro which choked the pine forest just before a 4.25/167 Friday effort. |
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| Two-time IHRA Top Sportsman World Champ Terry Housley was again on a roll; the Tennessee veteran's Willys coupe hit nonstop runs between 4.05-4.09 before falling to Pro Nitrous winner Mike Castellana in the semis. Housley celebrated his son's 16th birthday at HMP by announcing that the kid would soon be piloting his own '68 Camaro in Pro
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| Valdosta winner Harold Martin qualified his EFI Grand Am for the PN field with a 4.10/177 but a burned piston forced an engine swap for the first round. The Michigan crew was finishing up the wiring when time ran out for their first round match with Ken Thomas. |
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| Hometown favorite Thomas Patterson used Bill Barrett horsepower to coax two 4.00s from his "HeadHunter" Willys before a holeshot and a 3.98/183.08 still lost out to Joey Martin"s 3.93/185.35 by thirteen thousandths of a second.
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| The car which really had 'em talking was Neal Bergin's '65 Corvair Monza. The Conroe, TX, chassis builder and second-generation pilot Jeff Benham squeezed a 4.47/156.14 from the 475-inch Chevy-powered, mostly-steel 'Vair to make it quicker than any of the many Corvair FCs of the late '60s/early '70s, (none of which ever went quicker than 4.70s in the eighth). Theft Control Specialist sponsorship got a chuckle, too. |
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| Troy Critchley made ten laps during the event while clocking more 4.0's than he could count. A 4.03/182.63 lost out to Thomas Patterson's 4.00/180.43 in round one but the AMS "Jackhammer" will stay on the ADRL trail until the team's new '71 'Cuda is sorted out. |
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| One of the event's biggest shocks was the failure to qualify of Gaylen Smith and the infamous "Texas Bounty Hunter;" tire shake held the Camaro to a best of 4.09/174 on the only run which went to the stripe under power. |
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