It wouldn’t be an Alabama door slammer race without an appearance but fifty-year veteran Ellis Milner’s ’57 Bel-Air; daughter Lynne clocked a string of 4.20s at 170 mph.
034. Unseen on the Flowmaster ADRL tour since the ’06 Huntsville event, Bill Wilkins’ Florida-based 632-inch Pro Nitrous Mustang received tuning help from Joey Martin while clocking an early-shutoff 4.40/128 best.
Alabama’s legendary “Mr. Five-Speed”, Edmund Hall, ripped to a 4.27/165.10 on a rare timed trial in his 737-inch Trans Am. One week later, Hall bounced off the guardrail at Phenix City, AL; damage was substantial but no injury was incurred.
Seventeen Pro Xtreme Motorcycle hopefuls appeared at MMP and presented a fire show second to none; The top three qualifiers were all sitting at 4.44 seconds (!) until the God of Nitrous Bikes, Pennsylvanian Billy Vose, unleashed a 4.38/163.39 from Bernard Johnson’s Georgia 1500cc 2001 Suzuki Huyabusa to lead the field.
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