Outlaw race at Huntsville, Alabama Words and photos by Bret Kepner 11/9/04

It may have been the greatest 10.5 race ever when the Outlaws met at Huntsville Dragway for the 2nd annual ORSCA Outlaw World Shootout.

Jack Barfield scored the richest Outlaw 10.5 purse ever with a $20,000 win in his 706-cubic inch nitrous '68 Camaro, defeating fellow Georgian Craig Miller's '92 704 Camaro in a 4.64 to 4.69 all-Gene Fulton-powered final. Barfield also won the 2004 Outlaw Racing Street Car Association points Championship with third-round victory in 32-car field. The team swapped a piston in 56 minutes before the final round!

John Lynam ran the Outlaw Pro Modified tables with his South Carolina '63 Stingray, stealing Jason Scruggs' track record with a 3.992/184.50 and dropping Mike Neal in a 4.01 to 4.07 final. Sixty-two Pro Mods on the Huntsville Dragway property made for marathon qualifying sessions!

Tim Lynch rocked the Outlaw 10.5 world when he unleashed an all-time record 4.545 at 166 mph, (the quarter-mile equivalent of a 7.02/206!), on the very last run of the very last qualifying session to lead 83 other hopefuls for the $20K ORSCA showdown. The Georgian's turbo 417 small block Ford was last to the stripe by a mere three thousandths of a second in a massive late-round upset.