NMCA Pro Street Racing - Mid-Atlantic Mayhem

Fender-exit race headers are cool.

Jamie Stanton and partner Jake Holdridge took home their second straight event win by overtaking Bob Kurgan in the finals of Xtreme Street with an 8.12 at 176 mph while Kurgan snapped the input shaft of the transmission and rolled to a 15-second finish.

They call it the “Nuclear Banana”—we call it cool. John Warren’s ’72 Nova has slapper bars underneath the straight yellow body along with a nitrous-injected 523ci mill. He lost first round to eventual Xtreme Street winner Jamie Stanton, but still posted a super-quick 8.20 at 167 mph.

Dan Kroll brought his stock-suspension equipped ’69 Nova to the Xtreme Street wars using a 525ci big-block, Edelbrock heads, and Induction Solutions nitrous. He went all the way to the semifinals before losing to the feared and fast Mustang racer, Bob Kurgan. Kroll ran back-to-back runs of 8.11 at 170 mph in the first rounds of competition but slowed to an 8.36 at 170 mph in his semifinal loss.

We get so caught up in the heads-up racing that sometimes we forget there are other segments of NMCA events with the Car Show being just as popular as the racing categories. Over 100 car show participants packed the grounds at and plenty of Chevy iron was on display. We were impressed with the Pro Street cars that turned out for this muscle car event.

Jim Jarrett dipped into the 7.30s on occasion with his 3,200-pound missile in the Nostalgia Pro Street ranks. Jarrett relies on 638 ci from BES and an Induction Solutions single-stage direct-port nitrous system with a 0.030-inch nitrous jet size, as per the NMCA rulebook.

Jim Jarrett dipped into the 7.30s on occasion with his 3,200-pound missile in the Nostalgia Pro Street ranks. Jarrett relies on 638 ci from BES and an Induction Solutions single-stage direct-port nitrous system with a 0.030-inch nitrous jet size, as per the NMCA rulebook.

Joe Dunne pushed his ’68 Camaro to the edge of the 6-second zone with a best of 6.00 at 237 mph. His ultimate goals were to win the event and continue stretching his point’s lead. He accomplished both tasks by eliminating Alex Viscardi in the finals, 6.07 at 226 mph to Viscardi’s 7.13 at just 140 mph. Viscardi left too early, going red and handed over the win to Dunne.

Dangerous Dave Beeson rivals John Force with his 500-foot-long burnouts in his Nostalgia Pro Street entry. The ’80 Camaro is credited with the first 200-mph run in the category’s history and usually sits on top of the ladder in qualifying. The team fought various issues in the engine and traction department that slowed them down to 7.40s.

This ’69 Camaro from All-Out Automotive had two Vortech superchargers huffing into the engine. No word on the performance of it, but the car looked really fast. CHP