This Video Profile Of The Awesome Drastic Plastic AA/FA Will Have You Craving A Snoot Of Nitro!


This Video Profile Of The Awesome Drastic Plastic AA/FA Will Have You Craving A Snoot Of Nitro!

It kind of goes without saying that fuel altered are the best thing ever but even in saying that, all things are not created equal. Yes, some fuel altereds are cooler than other and for varying reasons. The Winged Express is awesome because it has created so many amazing stories and continues to wow audiences today. The Pure Hell car is fantastic because Rich Guasco was with it right up to the end of its racing life but for our money these days the Drastic Plastic AA/FA of Tom Motry is the kind of the hill. Joe Haas is the driver in this video and he’s a bad ass as well. Between the two of them they make a great team and the results have been proven over the last few seasons when they have set and reset their own “quickest and fastest” numbers in the history of the category.

So what you say? Just some guys with all the modern technology and money at their whim doing what they do? You’d be wrong if you thought either of those things. Tom is a regular guy. Joe is a regular guy. They have literally not one iota of computer assisted data gathering on the car. No driveshaft speed, no EGTs, no boost readout, not a damned thing. They tune it as it was done for many years which is by sight and by feel. They can basically make timing and fuel system tweaks and that is the extent of it. This has not hurt them, though.

As you will see in the video the car is an absolute missile. The best elapsed time the car has ever run is 5.28 and the biggest speed is verging on 280mph. This video was made by Les Mayhew in 2014 so it does not have the latest and greatest runs from the car but it does have spectacular footage from a couple of races that the team was competing at, specifically the IHRA event at US 131dragway and the other was the World Series of Drag Racing at Cordova that summer.

Our favorite part of the whole deal is the interview with Motry and Haas outside the then frigid PRI show in Indy. Just to hear the guys talk about running the car is awesome.

Press play below to see this Les Mayhew video profile of the Drastic Plastic AA/FA –


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