Hoovey689

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Videos: World's Fastest Street Car drives 1,200 miles, whips off 6.95 ET @ 209 mph

uter. Rarely can it do both effectively. But there's a certain subset of drivers out there for whom "trailer queen" is as dirty a phrase as any four-letter word you could think of. Hot Rod Magazine has worked up an event just for these folk. It's called Drag Week, and the rules are pretty simple. Cars must run five tracks in five states over five days, lowest ET wins and everyone has to drive their bruiser from track to track. No trailers allowed.

This year's king of the heap is Larry Larson and his 1966 Chevrolet Nova, a racer that is staking its claim for the title of world's fastest street car. A twin-turbocharged 565 cubic-inch big-block Bowtie V8 supplies the grunt, and though it's never been on a dyno, estimates put it at more than 2,300 horsepower. As a result, Larson can launch the car down the quarter mile in 6.95 seconds at 209.1 mph, even after driving the car on public roads for five days straight – some of it in pouring rain, no less.


http://www.autoblog.com/2010/09/22/v...les-whips-off/

2BENVD

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thing is pure beast

Stormwind

Very cool. But I don't know what they mean by "street car" as if it even means anything because there is nothing street legal about that car. He made it to 5 tracks on a public road without getting pulled over and ticked but that doesn't make it street legal in any way.

Och

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^^^^^ LOL, exactly.

These slicks alone make it not street legal.

plex

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Impressive, amazing that he did drive that thing 5 days on the road including rain. Cars that fast are usually on a trailer lol....

edgeucated

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2300 hp, gotta give the guy respect

Danimal

I'm pretty sure street car, when it comes to drag racing means that the car still has active headlights, turn signals, etc. and was originally a passenger car.

The word legal is never mentioned in the post.