First Look: Lloyd Wofford’s ’10 Super Stock Drag Pak Challenger

Last season, after a lengthy 28 year hiatus to tend to his thriving business, Arkansan Lloyd Wofford returned to the sport that he loved so much in a big way by joining the tough SS/AH ranks behind the wheel of an immaculate new ’68 HEMI Barracuda that was nothing short of a dream come true for the 59-year old.

Now, just a few months later, already with his first win under his belt in the HEMI Shootout at the JEGS Cajun SPORTSNationals this spring, Wofford is ready to unveil the second of his brand new racing machines; a 2010 Dodge Challenger Drag Pak built once again by B&B Race Cars that will stray from the norm and compete in Super Stock trim.

In the earlier part of 2010, with the new car under construction and three decades worth of cobwebs to shake, Wofford connected with veterans Sonny Stancil and James Caro to get some seat time in a SS/JA Plymouth Volare that they had. After becoming good friends with the pair through their dealings, Wofford agreed to purchase the car and in turn the trio formed a multi-car effort to attack the class racing ranks. “The Challenger was actually my wifes idea” Wofford explained. “Last year at the points meet at No Problem, we had trouble with our Volare and realized that the injected cars – the Camaros Firebirds, and even some of the Mustangs – were starting to drift down into the lower classes and it was clear that the Volare was going to become outdated, so we built this car as a real Super Stocker.”

Like the Barracuda, the Challenger sports another eye-catching paint scheme designed by Scott Brown and carrying the namesake of Wofford’s business, Engines Inc., on the door. “The car is absolutely gorgeous,” says Wofford. My wife and younger son helped designed the paint scheme and it’s a little atypical of a Scott Brown design, but it’s just beautiful and I wouldn’t be surprised if it wins a best appearing award.” Power for the new sharp new Challenger will come from a 360 cubic inch, fuel injected HEMI.

“There are five different Chrysler engine combination that we could’ve gone with, and Sonny and James have been running the 360 for over 15 years now and they’ve pretty well got that combination down. It’s got aluminum heads, 2.02″ intake valves, and a 1,000 cfm throttle body. It’s really a pretty potent engine.” In addition to the Barracuda, Wofford will also handle the driving chores this year in Competition Eliminator in a B/SMA Dodge Stratus, while Caro, who serves as the crew chief on all of the cars the team campaigns, will pilot either the Volare or the new Challenger.

The stunning new piece is already on it’s way to Texas Motorplex just outside Dallas, where it will make it’s debut in Super Stock at the NHRA South Central division points meet. There, it will either start out in the GT classification as a GT/FA or GT/GA, or in Super Stock as a SS/IA or SS/JA, giving the team four options of classes to run in.

Interestingly, without even turning so much as a wheel on the racetrack yet, Wofford and Caro’s new piece is already drawing plenty of ire in Super Stock circles, particularly among racers in SS/JA, where they believe the horsepower factoring of the 360 engine gives the car in the neighborhood of a three tenths advantage out of the gate. The current national record in the class is held by Don O’Malley at 9.87. “I think there may be another one being built or was already built and hasn’t raced yet, but as far as we know, this car will the first Super Stock Drag Pak on the racetrack.”