Photos and Text by Jeff Burk

The horsepower from the Duttweiler engine is delivered to the Mark Williams axles and rear end through a Liberty five-speed and AFT three disc clutch. Koni electric shocks and Weld wheels are found on all four corners. A full complement of AutoMeter gauges monitor the engine’s vital signs.

When NHRA decided to have a Pro Stock truck class, few people imagined just how slow and boring the class would become. The weight of the trucks plus the mandatory 355 cubic inch naturally aspirated engines that power them practically guarantees that the Pro Stock truck class will remain a seven second /180mph class despite the best efforts of the racers and car builders.

Many journalists and fans have speculated about what should be done to make the trucks more exiting including traditional Pro Stock big blocks or small blocks with nitrous oxide injection. Those solutions aren’t likely to be employed for a variety of reasons, not the least being that it isn’t likely that NHRA will ever allow the use of nitrous oxide injection in a professional class.

Still, wouldn’t it be interesting to see how an NHRA Pro Stock truck might perform if NHRA loosened up the rules a little. We at DRO think we have seen what that mythical truck would look like and how it would perform. Submitted for your approval is NMCA Pro Street World champion Bob Rieger’s S-10 pickup.

The truck was built for Rieger by Jerry Bickel in his Troy, Missouri race car plant to compete as an NMCA legal Pro Street car. That means that all of the running lights including the head light and turn signals work. It has operational electric windows, a working stereo, and even a gun rack in the rear window and weighs in at a near stock 2825lbs. The S-10’s hood profile is very flat and close to stock.

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