There’s a select handful of people who have run Drag Week in the single-digit zones. We aren’t talking nine-second quarters so much as we’re talking about the monsters. Larry Larson. Bryant Goldstone. Jeff Lutz. We’re talking street cars that could worry some NHRA heavy hitters in Pro Stock, cars that have plates, have lights, have everything they need to legally cruise down the highway. That is the beauty of Drag Week…you’ll get to see cars like Joe Barry’s 1956 Chevrolet 210 actually prove themselves with a week of just about everything. From the laps for timeslips to the miles logged in the summer heat, the strongest competitors do all of it well and those who do it multiple years with the same car…well, they deserve the recognition.

Barry’s Chevy is notable because excepting the fiberglass hood and trunklid, the body of this Chevy is legit. It’s all steel, with the chrome bumpers intact, the stainless steel trim intact, and it’s even got a freaking headliner between the roof metal and the tops of the cage. It’s a solid six-second car, no question there, but it’s one that is just as happy doing seventy down some backroad with a trailer in tow as it it is hard-launching at the strip. You want to know what goes on in a six-second street car? Take a look at the video.