HOT ROD Magazine’s hugely popular Drag Week is now just over a month away from hitting the pen road, and anticipation is growing as a number of very stout entries expected to be join the tour this year in an attempt to dethrone three-time and reigning overall champion Larry Larson and his now famous twin turbo Chevrolet Nova. And Larson’s 6.95-second blast to put a cap on last year’s dominating performance certainly signaled to the troops what they’ll need this year if they want the crown.

One of those hoping to walk away victorious is former Drag Radial competitor Nick Owens, who along with partner Earl Schexnayder, has put together an impressive Drag Week entry, utilizing a car that they simply “dug out of a pile in the garage,” as Owens put it. The pair began the project shortly after Christmas, and with all of the chassis work complete, it was picked up from the paint shop earlier this month.

Power for this ghastly road-going Mustang Cobra is a 600-cubic inch big block Ford, sporting a C&C aluminum block and John Kaase Hemi cylinder heads topped with what is believed to be a pair of old school NASCAR valve covers. A pair of GT47 88mm turbos lurk from the lower fog lights and feed through a methanol injection setup, creating what Owens and Schexnayder hope to be six-second, 200 MPH performance capable of unseating Larson and the Chevrolet dominance of Drag Week.

HOT ROD Drag Week gets underway Monday, Sept. 12 at Heartland Park Topeka in Kansas, winding through Great Bend, KS, Amarillo, TX, and Tulsa, OK, before concluding back at Topeka on Friday, Sept. 16.