The “Al Gary” Vega has a “mouse motor” and prior to this race had not made a pass for 25 years. Jim Hawkins’ Camaro is a legal NHRA AA/AS but had its single four barrel swapped out for a pair of quads for this race.

There were the typical obstacles to overcome that are part of  trying something new, but in the end the first (that we know of) Nostalgia Pro Stock event was staged and completed on historic Thompson Raceway Park’s  quarter-mile track located in the doorslammer crazy area of northeast corner of Ohio.

Pro Stock fans in Ohio are many so Thompson Dragway was a natural location for the event.  The historic track was among  the first to have an "Independence Eve" Pro Stock Shootout. It was an annual Pro Stock event at that track every July 3rd from 1970 until the cost of booking Pro Stocker for  match racing became prohibitive in the mid 1980s forcing the track to drop the event.  But thanks to the UMTA racers the tradition has been revived.

Vintage Pro Stock fans jammed into Thompson Dragway and stood anywhere they could see the action.