PRO MOD’S FIRST DECADE IN VIDEO

For the latest in drag racing news, visit . They were once a group of old Modified Eliminator racers who traded in their small blocks, Doug Nash transmissions, and 50-pound flywheels for large displacement engines and Lencos. They traded the rigid confines of class racing for the outlaw arena of high-speed bracket racing. But they wanted more. Then a group of Pro Stock racers, who had grown weary of fighting the relentless fight in high dollar professional drag racing, decided to put nitrous oxide on their racecars and let them “eat.“ As interest grew, small tracks in the Carolinas began booking them in for match races and then Quick Eight shootouts. Then, as a sanctioning body took notice, they made the Top Sportsman division a household name as the race began for the first driver to run 200 miles per hour. Then Bill Kuhlmann hit the historic mark at the 1987 IHRA Winternationals in Darlington, SC, and then the movement towards a profession