The Midwest Super Stock Mafia circuit was also booked in and they were running two qualifying laps with the two quickest cars returning for the finals. Jerry Sevik from Monee, Ill., and Rob Vanderwoude from Homer Glen, Ill., squared off in the money round. Sevik and his ’93 Z-34 Lumina ran a 7.813/176.77 effort that was easily good enough to trailer Vanderwoude’s ’66 Chevy II.

Dennis Holas pulls the ’67 Chevelle’s wheels thanks to a nitrous injected 565-inch mill under the hood. AJ Biondo in what appears to be a Nova is in the background.

Sportsman and Exhibition

Eighty-year-old Arnie ”the Farmer” Beswick was on hand for a match race with his nitrous oxide-injected GTO and had not one but two nitrous explosions in his vintage GTO. He repaired the car both times and came back to make all of his passes. A remarkable feat from a remarkable racer.

Rockford, Ill., racer Greg Higgins was the Super Pro (No Box) winner over Jim Prevo. Higgins’s Camaro had a .036 package with a 6.892 on a 6.890 dial while Prevo in a RED wasted a .012 bulb when he broke out by .021 on a 4.95 dial. Prevo from Mundeline, Ill., got some revenge for that loss when he drove his RED to the win in S/P (Box).  He strapped a .011 package on fellow dragster driver Monty Fisher that forced Fisher to go .006 under.

There was a second Super Pro (No Box) on a longer track and once again Higgins took the money when Jim Laughlin wasted a .039 RT to Higgins’s .118 when he ran almost a tenth off his dial while Higgins was just .019 over his 6.88 dial.