82-year old Willard Kinser made the relatively short trek here from central Kentucky with two very sharp looking race cars. At front is his 1998 C5 Corvette with a 589-inch BBC sporting twin Precision 91mm turbos with Big Stuff 3 injection. Willard ran a best of 5.73 in testing this morning, but says the car is capable of running well into the four's. The car at back is a Chevrolet Cobalt Super Stocker converted to a street-legal style car, with a 427 SBC with an F3 Procharger out front, and run as quick as 7.66 @ 180+ MPH.

Curtis Rhodes is here all the way Childersburg, VA with his 548-inch, roots-supercharged Camaro in the Outlaw 10.5 category.

Nick Yarber is here with a recently updated powerplant in his EZ Street Mustang, sporting a new aluminum block in the Pro Stock-style, 615-inch Ford that sports Ford Motorsports' "C" cylinder heads and motivated by a two-stage nitrous setup. Yarber has run as quick as 4.87 on the 295 Radial tire.

NMRA regular Bob Kurgan skipped competing in this weekends NMRA/NMCA event in Charlotte to join in the EZ Street fray here this weekend.

Brian Hicks has his sinister-looking twin turbo Dodge Challenger here competing in Outlaw 10.5

Several of the top teams in the Get Screened American Pro Mod Challenge are here as an exhibition portion of the show, as they gain valuable testing data while putting on a great show for the fans. Raymond Comisso's team was making some wholesale adjustments to his R2B2 '68 Camaro prior to this evenings qualifying session.

Mike Janis powered his Jancen 2010 Mustang to the best run of the opening round of qualifying and only five-second lap, a 5.98 at 239.48.

Like many of the competitors in the high-horsepower categories, Brad Personnett and his incredible twin turbocharged Camaro struggled to get a hold of the ORP surface, blowing the tires off and getting out of the groove of shape before passing the 60-foot clocks.

Californian Danny Rowe managed to lay down a game 6.046 at 242.80 for the second quickest lap of the round.

Fan favorite Melanie Troxel and crew continue to get a handle on their new '68 Camaro that they debuted recently. Melanie rattled the tires and lifted around 150-feet out and slowed to a 10.80 at 79 MPH.

Georgian Tony Johnson made it look easy, cranking out a great 4.513 at 170.79 MPH to lead Outlaw 10.5 after the opening round of qualifying.

Ken Rainwater and his sharp '04 Mustang slid into the second rung on the qualifying ladder with a 4.672 at 172.10 MPH.

Kevin Scott and his beautiful 1965 Chevy II showed the Limited Street field hows it done, distancing himself by nearly half a second with a stellar 4.859 at 157.37 MPH to pace the field after one round.

Ruben Tetsoshvi II sits in the second spot with an off pace 5.358 at 149.86 MPH.

Jerry Gunter and his awesome twin Procharged '69 Camaro struggled early in his lap, slowing to a 5.978 at a coasting 88 MPH that was good enough for the fourth spot.

Veteran Bob Kurgan experienced troubles early on in his qualifying attempt, slowing to a 6.42 elapsed time.

Atlanta winner Jimmy Martin was a little off his normally strong pace in the first session, slowing to a 5.835 at 134.70 MPH.

Nick Yarber and crew have been making adjustments today getting their new engine combination lined out and put it together well enough to hold the second spot after one round with a 5.477 at 142.19.