As 1320Video goes through their Drag Week 2017 footage, we have to make note of the Opel Ascona that Magnus Frost is infamous for. This is a car that is a legitimate, purpose-built street racer. It’s original point and purpose is to run at the Stockholm Open, a kind of street-racing free-for-all in Sweden where large crowds block off major roadways so the action can go down. That “6 TIME” plate up front is the track record for the car’s wins on that renegade racing circuit…not bad for a little econobox of an Opel. Then Frost shipped the car over to the States to run at Drag Week 2016, where he ran 8.01@169 MPH…not the seven-second run that the 540 Chevy powered car promised. So for Drag Week 2017, the suspension got a re-boot that would make the Ascona a little more dragstrip-friendly and the results spoke for themselves: sevens out of the gate and pretty much the whole way through the event.
What’s cool isn’t that this little nitrous-infused screamer runs the number it does. What makes it cool is that it’s one of the cars that makes Drag Week international and diverse. Shipping a car to the States isn’t cheap, and neither are the intercontinental flights. Add to that storage time in the States, the question of whether or not the car will get hurt on the way over, and especially in the case of the Ascona, whether or not you can get any kind of parts if you hurt something. Yes, these Opels were sold in the States for a while (Buick Opel 1900) but that doesn’t mean you’re going to be able to run to the parts store to get whatever you need. Then again, how much Opel is really left here? It makes the trip, it runs the number, and it’s an international ass-kicker on the strip. This little freak rules.
Lets not forget that as bad ass as the car is Magnus and Dennis are to of the best hommies you can ask for.
Bryan, you stated it perfectly in the last sentence. I wish it was mine!
Seven second doorslammer! Sunday sunday!
No wait, Every day!