LANDON JORDAN GOING BACK TO PRO STREET?

Agent N2O hears that former Pro Street hitter turned Pro Modified racer Landon Jordan has sold his Pro Modified ’63 Vette and will return to the Pro Street wars for the 2000 season. It is reported that Jordan has already has bought a car but what kind it is isn’t known yet.

IS THIS THE TRICKEST SUPER STREET CAMARO EVER BUILT?

This Camaro built by Larry Wolyniec’s Competition Cars shop in Chicago is possibly the trickest Super Street car ever built. The car was built to the outside limits of the NMCA rule book. It is a tube frame style Super Street car built to allow weight to be easily moved to wherever it is needed.

Wolyneic employed cutting edge chassis technology in way the chassis and car are constructed. One of the unique components used in the construction of this car is the extensive use of carbon fiber components to redistribute weight. The Camaro is a 1990 model powered by a Fast Times-built rat motor utilizing an NOS nitrous oxide system and fuel injection system.

We are showing you a couple of photos of the car now and will do a complete feature once the car has been down the track.

MORE SHANNON JENKINS RUMORS

Even though Shannon Jenkins has confirmed to that he won’t be driving the Parsons Bros Willys for the 2000 season he has let it be known that he is actively looking for a sponsor so that he can race next season. Interested parties should contact Bobby Bennett Jr.

MAUNEY WILL BE BUSY IN 2000

Agent N2O has learned that besides driving his own Jegs-sponsored new ’63 Corvette in IHRA Pro Modified next year Tommy Mauney will also be driving the Parsons Bros ’41 Willys that Shannon Jenkins drove in 1999 at eighth mile races in the Southeast. Driving race cars won’t be his sole job, though. Sources tell Agent N2O that Jenkins will be refurbishing and building new cars for the Jegs Pro Stock/Pro Stock Truck team as well as finishing up a new car for Fuel Injection maven Harold Martin for an early in the year delivery. We hear that he will also be going to NHRA events with the Jegs teams in his spare time. It sounds like the chassis builder racer needs a clone to do all he is committed to.

RICK MOROSO BUILDING NEW C-5 VETTE FOR NMCA

NMCA Real Street racer Rick Moroso is going to retire his venerable ’61 Corvette from competition and replace it with a new 1999 C-5. The new car, which is supposed to be completed in time for the 2000 season opener for NMCA is being built by Canadian Super Stock/Stock car builder F.J. Smith and will be powered by a canted valve small block Chevy. If the new Vette is not finished in time Moroso will campaign the ’61 that he has been running for the last several years.

RULES REVOLT IN PRO STREET

NMCA Pro Street racers have sent the following letter to NMCA in response to proposed rules for the 2000 NMCA season including a recent additional rule for the Pro Street class that would allow naturally aspirated, 2450 lb Pro Street cars with planetary style trans to run the Sonny Leonard 820 ci engines. If a racer were to run that combo with an automatic trans, the car could weigh in at 2300+ lbs. DRO was told by a source at Hot Rod that a least some rules would be changed as a result of the letter. Just which rules and what changes will be made aren’t known.

Attn.: NMCA

Over the past few days there have been a lot of phone calls between all of us. It has come to our attention that there has been normally aspirated weight break changes without the knowledge to any of us. This rule only favors one car and will give them the capability of running 6.70. Didn’t we have enough of this last year? We don’t want it, period.

Number two issue is the 707’s. No one wants these motors in this class, even the people who can run them (i.e. Tony Christian’s ‘57, Annette Summers’ ‘68 Camaro, Danny Scott’s Chevelle, Tony Gentile’s ‘69 Camaro, Mike Bowman’s Chevelle, and Ricky Carlos’ Camaro.) Why do we need to spend $50,000 to build one just because Bobby Cross likes the idea? It will turn our 650’s to junk and we unfortunately do not have that kind of money. Bobby Cross will say, "What about the two or three people who have a 707?" Tell them all that they need to do is change their crank and rods. We cannot do thatt with our 650’s.

Number three issue is that we would all like to see rules policed at every meet.In other words, if a goofy combination that is new (i.e. turbo or normally aspirated) start running away from all of is, or if the late model cars are way behind, adjust them now. Not like our promises that we got last year.

We are all sick and tired of this, being run like a dictatorship, and would like to make some of our own rules. We are only asking for three things, let us have them and we will be happy, including sponsors who are getting tired of all of this, (Strange, Chassis Engineering and especially NOS.) Three things is all that we ask. If all of the racers on this cannot have that, then something REAL STRANGE is going on!

1. 2625lbs. normally aspirated NOT 2450 (for a late model car)

2. NO 707’s

3. Weekly policing of weights (just like NHRA and Winston Cup)

We don’t want one, we want all three!

Respectfully,

Tony Christian
Pat Musi
Mike Moran
Tony Gentile
Joe Culver
Mark Tate
Ross Stomp
Danny Scott
Annette Summers
Rod Williford
Mike Bowman
Ricky Carlos

cc: Bobby Cross, Willie Benner, Alan Scrimager, Katherine Girard-Cobb, John W. Cobb III, Brad Gerber, Bill Trevato, Ro McGonegal

photos by Jeff Burk