Torkleson's unique '55 T-Bird/53 'Vette
(the car has a T-bird back half and a 'Vette
nose) powered by a blown Chrysler Hemi led
all qualifiers with a 6.485/218.02 blast.
But just two-thousandths behind him was Pat
Stoken's nitrous oxide-injected '67 Camaro
with a 6.487/217.66. All but one of the qualifiers
ran into the sixes.
Torkelson ran a string of 6.50's to get
to the final round while Stoken ran 6.40's
on the other side of the ladder on his way
to the nitrous versus blower final round.
Torkelson must have felt that Stoken had
the performance advantage as he took a shot
at the tree and came up with a stellar .017
light against Stoken's .094. Torkelson got
the win with his best timing of the race,
a 6.468 that buried Stoken's off the pace
6.927.
| PRO
MOD QUALIFYING |
| 1 |
Wayne Torkelson |
supercharged |
6.485 |
218.02 |
win |
| 2 |
Pat Stoken |
nitrous |
6.487 |
217.65 |
RU |
| 3 |
John Scialpi |
supercharged |
6.514 |
215.25 |
SF |
| 4 |
Dennis Radford |
nitrous |
6.524 |
216.71 |
SF |
| 5 |
Vern Mills |
nitrous |
6.544 |
220.75 |
1rd |
| 6 |
Lee Smith |
supercharged |
6.649 |
217.91 |
1rd |
| 7 |
Dan Vogt |
nitrous |
6.868 |
294.22 |
1rd |
| 8 |
Scott Bailey |
supercharged |
7.223 |
199.91 |
1rd |
|
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|
Top Speed |
Vern Mills |
220.75 |
|
|
|
Low E.T. |
Wayne Torkelson |
6.468 |
|
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SPORTSMAN RESULTS
The four-day bracket tournament at the Nightfire
Nationals began in 1976 and is believed to
be the oldest event of its kind. Amazing
for this day and age where dragsters dominate
drag racing, door cars won every day's race.
Idaho racer Burdette Hoelzle won the overall
points championship in a Datsun Pick-up!
and was runner-up to the race Champion Ron
Nickels who was in an '64 Olds 442.
