It’s difficult to imagine that Barry Mitchell could make a bigger splash at Donald Long’s upcoming No Mercy 7 event than he did this spring when he completed a historic and impressive double-up with victories in both Outlaw Drag Radial and Pro 275, but with the help of Tim McAmis Race Cars, he hopes to steal some more headlines as he chases the $60,000 prize in Radial vs The World in a first-of-its-kind machine.

With a little less than a week to spare before qualifying begins at the South Georgia Motorsports Park, McAmis and his team have wrapped up a drag radial-equipped machine for Mitchell: a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro featuring a host of state-of-the-art parts and pieces from nose to tail, along with a powerplant and driveline combination that’s got “competitive” written all over it without ever having turned a tire.

Mitchell, recognizing the need for 3.8-second power, sourced a Brad Anderson Hemi powerplant from none other than supercharger doorslammer wizard Todd Tutterow, topped with a Hammer Superchargers roots blower from Troy Critchley. The transmission is a three-speed Lenco setup with a Tutterow-designed converter drive unit and a Neal Chance converter, and the power is transmitted through a carbon fiber driveshaft.

Under the classic Camaro body is a McAmis full billet Drag Radial housing with heavy duty four-link bars and wishbone designed in-house just for radial tire applications, along with Mark Williams carbon fiber brakes and full floater axle kit, a Strange Engineering billet center section, Mark Menscer shocks, and Sanders wheels wrapped in 315 Pro Mickey Thompson radials out back. Kinetic Engineering struts are bolted-up up front and Weld V-series front wheels are paired with Mickey Thompson 25-inch frontrunners.

Many will recall a video that McAmis himself produced last year poking fun at the odd appearance of the relatively small radial tire in a traditional big tire wheel well opening, and so the TMRC team filled in three inches of the front of the wheel openings on this car to produce a more appealing look.

Jeff Hoskins painted the car a sleek gloss black with dark silver stripes, and, combined with the polished wheels, the airbrush work, and the unique (for radial tire racing) strut rear wing, has resulted in what is a hands-down a Best Engineered and Best Appearing Car award winner at any race Mitchell shows up at.

Mitchell picked the car up today at McAmis’ shop in Hawk Point, Missouri and, like a kid with a new toy, made the trek back home to North Carolina. Tutterow plans to meet up with Mitchell on Monday to fire the car and ensure all is well before testing on Tuesday and Wednesday and then heading to Georgia.