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There was a time when Outlaw 10.5 was what it was. If you wanted to run 10.5W tires on a doorslammer, you backhalved an original car and off you went. Placing these same tires on a lightweight, tube chassis car was certainly a thought, but not a thought which anyone really acted upon. Then came the formation of Extreme 10.5, and suddenly, racers being racers, the limits to which a doorslammer could go – tire size being the only limiting factor – became a legitimate conversation. Enough so that organizers of the Canadian Street Car Nationals formed a category with these very guidelines in place: 10.5W’s and let it fly.

And that they did. During qualifying in the headliner Door Slammer Mania category at the annual event at Toronto Motorsports Park, veteran Pro Modified pilot and esteemed chassis builder Mike Stawicki clicked off a 6.07 at 237 MPH aboard Canadian Jay Santos’ gorgeous new ’69 Camaro, sporting a screw-blown, 521-inch Brad Anderson powerplant between the fenders. The 6.07 marks the quickest pass ever recorded in the quarter-mile by a 10.5W-equipped doorslammer.

Billy Glidden, Spiro Pappas, and others have recorded several low six-second passes on the W’s, but it was Pro Modified racer Brad Personett who clicked off a 6.08 at last year’s Street Car Super Nationals in Las Vegas that shocked the drag racing world and gave the race to the fives some serious steam.