Musclepalooza IX: The F.A.S.T. War Heats Up!

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If you weren’t one of the hundreds of people who joined us for Musclepalooza IX over the weekend, you missed one heckuva show. Besides the show cars, besides the wheels-up racing (both of which we’ll give you a glimpse of in later posts), you also missed a battle royale in the F.A.S.T. ranks as the 10.53-second e.t. record fell not once, but twice, and two prominent F.A.S.T. racers vied for the $1,000 bounty we offered.

First up, Terry Pennington in his ‘69 L88 Corvette had thrown down a couple mid-10.40-second runs during practice on Saturday, so we eagerly anticipated his first run of the day. Continue reading at Hemmings

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Posted at 8:22 am in Dan Strohl, F.A.S.T., Hemmings

Comments

racerjim
May 28, 2009 at 8:58 am

Nevertheless, still an amazing feat to rip off times like that in a stock-appearing series. There are cars with slicks that can’t do that!

fireball22
May 28, 2009 at 7:08 am

Nothing wrong with bias-ply tires, Jim. The Historic Stock Car Racing Series uses bias-ply tires exclusively (spec’ed with Goodyear). A little more forgiveness if the car gets out of shape. Besides, a ’68 Vette wouldn’t necessarily have a “radial tuned” suspension.

racerjim
May 27, 2009 at 3:45 pm

PLEASE tell me that there will be video! A 10.4 on bias-plies!?! Good God!