DMC Re-Building David DeMarco’s Regal for NMCA Super Street

Over the last decade, perhaps no performance shop has flown under the radar more than Dennis Macpherson’s DMC Racing operation in Halifax, Massachusetts. MacPherson was an integral part of NMRA Super Street Outlaw champion Manny Buginga’s program back in the middle part of the ‘00’s, beginning with the chassis construction and ending up as one of the men behind the scenes, doing whatever it took to get the car down the track and win races. Since then, DMC Racing has been the force behind numerous race-winning operations, and the hope is that the vehicle featured in this article will become another one of those DMC champions.

David DeMarco, one-half of the infamous Troublemint Twins (along with brother Andrew), contracted DMC Racing to construct this absolutely stunning example of Outlaw 10.5-style terror, which is being completed this week. DeMarco, not one to mince words, told us that the car was built from the outset to make its mark in the NMCA’s Super Street class, and has been completely engineered with that purpose in mind. Proline Race Engines supplied the 540-cubic-inch BBC engine, which is pumped up by a pair of Precision Turbo and Engine 88mm class-legal turbochargers.

Rossler’s Turbo400 transmission is tasked with passing the power to a Mark Williams floater-style 9-inch rearend housing, and the DMC Racing team has been hard at work putting the finishing touches on the car this week. The chassis has had every one of MacPherson’s tricks applied to it in an effort to keep the weight down to a manageable number while still performing on the track, and DeMarco can’t wait to get into the seat and drop the hammer.

“Last year the car went 6.70 at 222 mph – that was with the old chassis and stock floor and 150 pounds overweight. The engine has been redone, we cut the body off the chassis and installed an all-new 25.2/3-spec chassis in it, new turbos, new rear, and just about everything else we could think of over the last several months. Dennis and his crew have been kicking ass on the beast and I just can’t wait to go racing again,” DeMarco explained. The car came off the chassis jig last evening, and the DMC crew is putting the finishing touches on it over the next few days. Testing will commence this weekend and the team has every intention of making it to the NMCA/NMRA Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing in Joliet, IL in just a few short weeks.