The first round of Pro Street had a few singles due to some breakage with Randy Walker’s 6.323/221.85, Mack Moffat’s improving 7.030/199.73, and Gary Soulages at 7.299/192.48 all advancing to the next round of eliminations on single passes.

WFO teammates met up in an all Arizona match up as Kelly Bluebaugh took quick care of Joe Alsworth’s Hwy 69 entry with his best pass of the weekend, a 6.461at 217.98 mph.  The Conquest Trans Am of the Henry brothers was the second quickest behind Randy Walker at a fine 6.418, 219.94 mph when Tony Marino caught a red light start in Scalpi’s Chevy. Hairston eased to his victory over newcomer Dawood at a 6.618/224.55 mph to Billy’s best 7.593 at 193.88 mph.

Walker not only performed like a champion, but luck was on his side in the RC Construction 1974 nitrous El Camino, when he got another bye run when his competition, Gary Soulages in the potent Ford Lightning truck, could not make the call in time. Walker made a half-track pass with the Charles Carpenter-tuned machine and got an instant trip to the final round as the team would get the odd lot single in the semis too.

In an extremely tightly fought race, Valencia, CA’s Tim Henry cranked out another 6.40 pass at 6.429/219.94 and the win when Bluebaugh in the Auto Trader/WFO Monte Carlo unfortunately put a rod out of the 728-inch WFO powerplant but still ran a close 6.571 at 182.35 mph. Hairston made it look easy as he laid down an easy 6.542/220.30 pass when Moffat spun the tires in his Corvette and had to lift way early.

Going for the record instead of saving parts, Walker made an all-out pass with the points-leading Pro Street El Camino and probably would have taken that ET record, but his 6.347, at only 206.83 mph cost the team five pistons and a few assorted sleeves too. In a record hour and 20 minutes the Walker Brothers, Charles Carpenter, Thomas and the crew changed the injured parts and were ready for the final.

Hairston put up Low ET and Top Speed of the entire event (6.284, 229.47 mph!) in his semifinal round match up with Henry. Henry left first (.016 RT to Clint’s’ .038) but it was costly for him and his crew as they broke and shut off with times of 10.346, 122.85 mph.

That set the final in which it was anyone’s race, with both drivers really on with their reaction times (Clint .014RT to Randy’s .019) and it was a side by side adventure all the way into the lights as the bright orange GTO of the Hairston family picked up the win in Las Vegas at 6.322 and 229.31 mph to back up the PSCA Pro Street ET record and just miss the speed record too.

After all that work in the pits, Walker was right there too with a very close time of 6.392 at 217.63 mph.