By
Andrew Wolf August 16, 2018When we left off with last week’s debut episode of the
Horsepower Wars $10K Drag Shootout, the four teams — still gassed from testing their physical mettle against one another in the $10K Olympics — had, in the order they finished the competition, chosen the chariots for which they would spend the next nine and a half days preparing for battle. For Boddie’s team, it was the Buick Regal; Team Stinky Pinky took the third-generation Camaro; and the Dream Team and Team Bigun had selected the Fox-body Mustangs — a 1990 GT and a 1986 GT four-eye, respectively.After a little trash-talking amongst the teams — who, as we learned, all had plenty of trash to sling — it was time to get to work and get dirty.
Because the cars were purchased virtually as-is out of classified ads or on Craigslist, they came in various states of completeness and disrepair, and so right out of the gate, some teams had more or less work than others to strip the cars down. The Dream Team, for example, chose an already partially-stripped car, allowing them to get to work on the cage right away, whereas Team Bigun had to hustle to get everything off of and out of their more complete four-eye.