Pontiac Car Show & Drag Race - Pontiac Heaven Drags & More VIII

Meet a Scotty Fenn-built '56-'57 Chassis Research TE 440 dragster fitted with a Hillborn-injected 389 Pontiac engine. The dragster had a flathead when raced by the original purchaser but got the Pontiac engine when Mickey Thompson bought it. After Mickey's death, the dragster came into the possession of one of his coworkers. Currently, Mark and Beckie West of Scottsdale, Arizona, own the dragster after finding it in a SoCal garage in 2003, where it had been stored for over 10 years. The rare SR84938 (SR for Special Research) 389 engine is scheduled to be rebuilt by the man who assembled it originally, Fritz Voit, as part of a planned restoration.

What's so cool about Mark and Brenda Greenwell's customized '66 Chevy van? How about its Hillborn-injected, twin-turbocharged 428 Pontiac powerplant?

Have you ever sat in an AA/F dragster? While it was running? Your humble editor got the ride of his life without ever leaving the pits. Read more about it in "Full Throttle."

Ray Baumgardner's low-buck Second-Gen T/A boils the hides.

As you saw on the cover of the Sept. '06 issue, Robin Roberts' 8-second '76 T/A was another highlight of the event. Here it waits in the staging lanes during the driver's meeting on Saturday.