NITROUS EXPRESS LIMITED STREET
The back-halved, no-wheelie-bars, small-tire
Limited Street show was the sole property of
David Reese's
Procharger-equipped '68 Camaro. The South Carolina veteran,
who swore
no more than 471 cubic inches in the stock-appearing
beast, reset both ends of the ORSCA L/S Records with
a 4.86/151 with only two other qualifiers in the four-second
zone. A 5.03/148 on the hottest surface of the day opened
eliminations, but Reese dropped back into the fours for
the remainder of eliminations, culminating in a 4.96/148
over Georgian David Waits' big block nitrous '68 Nova.
EZ STREET
The ORSCA Drag Radial contingent again
found themselves listed behind the white Mustang of Mississippian
Dennis Bailey, whose 5.34/148 led the 32-car field by
only nine thousandths of a second over fellow Ford pilot
Trey Hewlett. While both ran in the 5.30s in round one,
Hewlett stole Low ET of the Meet in the second stanza
with a 5.31/145 over Jason Glueck's Missouri Monte Carlo.
In the semis, Bailey stopped Memphis legend
Donn Gingrich with a 5.37 and a 0.001 RT (!), but Hewlett's
5.47/144 effort actually lost to Mississippi Mustang
pilot John Kolivas' 5.70/136 courtesy of a quarter-second
holeshot (photo abvoe)! With Kolivas having run no quicker
than 5.57, the two Magnolia State Mustangs staged for
the final with Bailey the definite favorite. When both
drivers found themselves socked in with tire smoke, however,
it was Kolivas who pedaled his way to the stripe first
by a 6.04/134 to 6.10/130 margin.
