Poor Man's Drag Racing Class: The Altereds

Gone forever, one of the nastiest drag racing classes of all time, the Altered Coupes/Sedans & Competition Coupes/Sedans. The baddest of the bad, including the nitro burning Double A Fuel Altereds, rounded off to AA/FA. Folks referred to the AA part as “Awful Awful”.

I think there has always been some confusion about the Altered classes. In the Stock Classes, the cars had to be basically stock production vehicles. Although highly modified, the cars still needed to rely on factory produced and available engines, transmissions, chassis, etc. In the Gasser and Sports Car Classes, the vehicles themselves were basically production vehicles with highly modified engines… read more >