For the past year,
Here's the "50 Fastest" list they're working off of:
"June 28-- Gates open at 8:30 for spectators and the 50 Fastest challenge will begin at 10:00 and end at noon. Then, Buick Horsepower takes over. . . . These tentative hours can be tweaked depending on the number of musclecars that show up for 50 Fastest. We have quite a few so far that say they are coming including some big block Chevy cars, a
440-6 pak car, a Hemicuda, even a Studebaker with the R3 supercharged engine! And, we have a Buick GSX and a 70 Stage 1 too. If we get 300 cars that participate in this 50 Fastest challenge, then we'll have to re-write the schedule! Remember that these cars too must be NHRA legal! Make sure you have things like battery hold-downs, radiator overflow jugs, not too much rubber fuel line, etc."June 29 -- Gates again open at 8:30 for spectators and again we will run the 50 Fastest starting at 10:00 and this part of the program will run until noon. Then, again, Buick Horsepower takes over. . . . Same deal as yesterday if we get slammed with 50 Fastest challengers!
- * * "Also, the 50 Fastest is generating so much interest that you don't want to miss this part of the event! We have crews coming from all over to cover this and you may very well see your car in print or on TV if you bring your stock musclecar and see what it will run! Again, we should mention that if your musclecar is not on the 50 Fastest chart, you are still welcome to bring it and see how it stacks up. Then, maybe see it on TV in a few months!"
Also in that May 8 thread I posted this explanation of the "50 Fastest" list that is the basis for this event:
This 50 Fastest list originally appeared in Car Review magazine in
1984, and was culled entirely from magazine road tests from "in the day. So calling it the "50 Fastest" without an asterisk explaining its origins is misleading. It should really be called "The 50 Fastest Road Test Quarter Mile Times that One Ragazine Writer Could Get His Hands On in 1984."Just so the late model lovers didn't get their panties in a bunch, I also posted this link to the all-time 50-fastest: