8-second Grand National

Still think this wicked Buford is race-only? How many racecars have you seen with this much chrome under the bonnet? That enormous 88 turbo stuffs the Stage 2 with 31 pounds of boost, and Hartline's Buick dances around the thousand-horsepower mark on the dyno.

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On several occasions while driving to work, I had a guy in a blue Mustang GT rev his engine and point at my car. Of course he is always going in the opposite direction. I asked the local Mustang guys about him, and it turns out the guy had just installed a 410-inch motor and a NOS kit on it. Word on the street was that it ran 10.8s on motor.

As fate would have it, I spotted him at our local cruise night one evening. He had a pretty large crowd of 5.0 guys hanging around him, so I struck up a conversation. I asked him if his car was "as fast as it was loud?" He looked at me puzzled and said that it was. I told him that I was the guy with the GN that he kept revving at. He then made the fatal mistake of asking me if I "wanted to run it?"

I had my street tires and pump gas in it, while he had BFG Drag Radials on his. I was too far into this to come up with any lame excuses so had to take him up on his offer.

I said, "How much?"

"I don't have any money," came the response.

"I don't do charity work..."

My buddy was wanting to watch a race bad and came up with this solution: The loser had to put a sticker in their back window for 30 days that says "Grand Nationals Rule and Mustangs Suck!" or vise versa. He agreed, and we were set. We line up on the street right in front of everybody. We take off and he gets about a car in front of me. I start to catch him and spin, I ease up and get back in it and get to his door and start to spin again, I ease up and get back in it a third time and get just in front of him before the car breaks loose again. We are going 70 mph by now, and I ease up and he gets a half a car out and I nail it one last time knowing it will hook at this speed. I slingshot in front of him and beat him by 6-7 car lengths. He was to spend the next 30 days with decal proudly displayed.

A week or two later, I went back to the same cruise spot with my ET Streets and a tank full of race gas. Sure enough, the guy came back, this time with slicks and a full bottle. He was extremely disappointed that I had changed my tires, but asked me for a rematch. The stakes were he could either take the sticker off, or leave it on another 30 days.

We lined up again, and this time I came out hard. His buddies claim I lifted the tires (I think it was close). He got excited and sprayed it too soon. He started spinning, while I was winning. I let the car shift into Second and when I reached 70 mph, I eased up and coasted to the finish. He had given up and turned around.

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[Ef]saceone[sF] said:

yikes...take off the wheelie bar + parachute and it's a god damn SLEEPER from outside... 8 seconds...god damn

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west aust said:

wanna make it a sleeper, buy it remove all wheelie bars, parachute, signs and repaint it brown now you'll have a sleeper

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[Ef]saceone[sF] said:

god damn that thing NEEDS wheelie bars....I take back my previous comment. lol

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