Today’s late model, factory-built racer cars are nothing short of high performance marvels, if you ask us.

To our knowledge, no true factory-built racer has ever snagged a seven-second time slip. Sure, cars with OE parts or financial support from the factories have turned the trick, but to do in an actual assembly line produced vehicle is a whole new animal.

Based on the numbers that we’ve been seeing from Carl Tasca – part of the legendary Tasca Racing family – and his Super Stock-esque Cobra Jet, it was apparent that eclipsing that seven-second barrier was a matter of when and not if.

Well, on Wednesday while testing at the Bradenton Motorsports Park in Bradenton, Fla. ahead of this weekend’s season-opening NMRA Spring Break Shootout, featuring the inaugural Cobra Jet Shootout, Tasca got the job done, reportedly cranking out a killer 7.96 at 174 MPH from his “Winner White” 2010 Cobra Jet to become the first Cobra Jet into the sevens. And last we checked, Tasca does it the old fashioned way, rowing through the gears of a Liberty five-speed with aclutch as he charges down the 1320.

Our hats off to Mr. Tasca for his accomplishment; one of many that the new-age factory wars have and will surely continue to produce.