Noah Anderson, from nearby Earl, NC, notched yet another Footbrake Bracket win at Shadyside with his original Max Wedge ’63 Plymouth Belvedere wagon. Anderson, who’s owned the car since 1982 when he held several IHRA B/Pure Stock Automatic records with it, beat Bill Hudson and his “Lickety Split” Fox-body Mustang in the final round of the Garland Buff Memorial event.

Taylor, SC’s Ronnie Strange and his classic T-Bird were scheduled to face off against Ronnie Dotson and his Mill Springs, NC-based dragster in the Pro Bracket final, but a Sunday curfew precluded their race. The “win” went to Strange “because he was the first to come get his money,” track owner Ronnie Buff explained. “You’ve heard of the ‘first-or-worst rule? Well, he was first.”

No sense in letting a good Corvette go to waste.