The Saturday Shift: Watch This Lenco Equipped, 588ci NA Chrysler Powered, Top Sportsman Rocket Run 7s At Atco


The Saturday Shift: Watch This Lenco Equipped, 588ci NA Chrysler Powered, Top Sportsman Rocket Run 7s At Atco

I’ll admit it. I was in a Lenco kind of mood this week when it came to Parting Shift videos because it has been a while since we have featured a driver ripping the levers on the way down the strip to quarter mile glory. This time we’re at Atco Dragway in New Jersey and we are in the passenger seat of a really cool naturally aspirated 588ci Chrysler wedge powered Dodge Daytona bodied car. As best we can tell, this big RPM screamer runs down in the 7s without a blower, a turbo, or a whiff of nitrous which is hardcore. It would not put him at the top of a qualifying sheet but the fact the engine is doing the work with no additional help is pretty cool and wait until you hear it! This thing sounds like a more pissed off version of a pro stock when it is heading through the lights. The trans is a four speed Lenco and as you’ll see, the car is pretty well behaved during the runs we are able to see in this video.

This is a big year for serious top sportsman racers across the country because they (along with their long, skinny brethren in top dragster) can compete for an NHRA national championship for the first time ever and that is going to draw lots of heavy hitters to races all over the country in an effort to be the first to claim that title. There are so many of these cars out there now that it only makes sense. Proof that we live in the golden age of horsepower is that the typical top sportsman qualifying sheet is faster than a top fuel race from the late 1960s/early 1970s. The competition is just as fierce on the divisional level and this car will be found hitting the NHRA D1 trail in 2015 we’re sure.

Watch John Nilsson wind it up, dump the clutch, and rip the handles on his way to several stout 7-second elapsed times at Atco!

PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE SOME LENCO RIPPIN’ RUNS FROM THIS MOPAR SCREAMER AT ATCO –


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