The Factory Appearing Stock Tire class is where the car has to look totally stock, yet these guys are now running 10s with stock tires. There are two classes—the thumper big-block cars all run together chasing current record holder Terry Pennington’s ’69 L88 Corvette that has run 10.30 at 134.27. In the small-block class, you have cars like Chris Kuskowski’s ’72 Plymouth Duster that has run as quick as 11.44 at 120 mph. Granted, these are dedicated race cars made to look like stock appearing muscle cars, but you have to admire a car with stock exhaust manifolds, intake, and tiny tires running low 10s or a small-block car running 11.44. My hot-dogged Chevelle is a simple street car with a 383, headers, sticky tires, and lots of aftermarket parts and so far hasn’t reached the mid 11s yet. So what’s my excuse? The F.A.S.T. engines are stroked and bored with monster high compression and cams that are big yet hide the idle quality and lots of other stuff that they don’t want to talk about. Nevertheless, this is impressive. It would be fun to see how quickly we could build an iron big-block Chevelle. It would look like a 396 and be somewhere north of 500 ci with lots of compression, a late-closing intake camshaft, and misplaced weight. It would be a hoot. Check out the action at fastraces.org.