Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em honors were shared by the Time Bomb Vega on this later afternoon run going into the finals…

and Jon Wall in the Fireball Monza, who followed up this smoker with a run that sent the ashes of the late Jim Shores into the atmosphere when the parachute came out.

Displayed in the pits were two cool replicas of the transitional funny car era of 1965-1967; one was the Green Hornet altered-wheelbase Dodge, the other was an AMC Marlin like the one Preston Honea ran back in the day.