Brian Meyer murdered the slicks on every pass in 5.0 Mustang Magazine Real Street, which offers only a choice between 302-inch "old school" or 281-inch modular motor power on 10.5 X 26.5 tires with a single power adder at 3100 pounds. Illinois veteran ran the table with pole qualifier, Low ET and Top Speed (9.74/139.56) and event win.

Mike Abdalla hit 9.15/148 on his way to surprise runner-up in Edelbrock Hot Street. New Mexico racer outlasted heavy hitters in tough class which allows only 302, 351, or 281 modular engines with no power-adders at 3200 lbs. on 10.5 X 28.5 tires.

Biggest shock of Motive Gears Nats may have been the redlight by two thousandths of a second in the semis by undisputed King of Hot Street, Charlie Booze. Eastern killer went undefeated throughout 2004 season and had won two of five in '05; he was again the only racer in the eights or over 150 mph at Joliet, (8.97/150.82).  With Booze out, Dan Paolini gladly accepted his second Hot Street win of 2005; Ohioan's 359-incher with no power adders clocked a best-ever 9.08/148.71 en route.

On his way to duplicating Booze's perfect 2004 season, Gene Hindman's Centerforce Clutches 308-inch '88 Mustang won its fifth straight event in Tremec Transmissions-backed Pure Street category. Stock chassis with either 302 or 281 Modular engines and no power adders on 10.5 X 26.5 tires can still hit insane numbers like 10.42 at a record 128.38 mph.

K&N Filters Factory Stock division is just that...bone stock EVERYTHING except for drag radial tires. Shawn Johnson has lost only one round in '05; Joliet win came with 11.50s at over 117 and the closest competitor at 11.77!

Don Bowles, whose "Coal Digger" stick-shifted Fords earned NHRA and IHRA titles throughout the 1970s, still races FoMoCo products with his son. A true global giant in the coal industry, the Kentuckian now runs this 12.4-second '05 Mustang at NMRA Denso events.

Trilogy Motorsports and Jerry Barnes brought this simply astonishing street-legal '03 Mercury Marauder from Dearborn, Michigan, to hit 11.21 at 121.18 mph with 281-inch modular engine and street tires. This thing weighs 4300 pounds!