For the past year, www.Buickhorsepower.com has been trying to assemble
as many cars as possible
from the 1984 "50 Fastest Muscle Cars" list.  It's set for Wednesday
and Thursday June 28 and June 29 at Indianapolis Raceway Park.  Spike
TV's "MuscleCar show" is covering it.

Here's the "50 Fastest" list they're working off of:

http://www.buickhorsepower.com/images/stories/Documents/50_fastest.pdf

I posted about this on May 8.  Here's the latest, from the page
http://www.buickhorsepower.com/ , updated June 22:

"Welcome to the Buickhorsepower.com website! Here is our tentative
schedule. . . .

"June 28-- Gates open at 8:30 for spectators and the 50 Fastest
challenge will begin at 10:00 and end at noon. Then, Buick Horsepower
takes over. . . . These tentative hours can be tweaked depending on the
number of musclecars that show up for 50 Fastest. We have quite a few
so far that say they are coming including some big block Chevy cars, a
440-6 pak car, a Hemicuda, even a Studebaker with the R3 supercharged
engine! And, we have a Buick GSX and a 70 Stage 1 too. If we get 300
cars that participate in this 50 Fastest challenge, then we'll have to
re-write the schedule! Remember that these cars too must be NHRA legal!
Make sure you have things like battery hold-downs, radiator overflow
jugs, not too much rubber fuel line, etc.

"June 29 -- Gates again open at 8:30 for spectators and again we will
run the 50 Fastest starting at 10:00 and this part of the program will
run until noon. Then, again, Buick Horsepower takes over. . . . Same
deal as yesterday if we get slammed with 50 Fastest challengers!
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"Also, the 50 Fastest is generating so much interest that you don't
want to miss this part of the event! We have crews coming from all over
to cover this and you may very well see your car in print or on TV if
you bring your stock musclecar and see what it will run! Again, we
should mention that if your musclecar is not on the 50 Fastest chart,
you are still welcome to bring it and see how it stacks up. Then, maybe
see it on TV in a few months!"

Also in that May 8 thread I posted this explanation of the "50 Fastest"
list that is the basis for this event:

This 50 Fastest list originally appeared in Car Review magazine in
1984, and was culled entirely from magazine road tests from "in the
day.  So calling it the "50 Fastest" without an asterisk explaining its
origins is misleading. It should really be called "The 50 Fastest Road
Test Quarter Mile Times that One Ragazine Writer Could Get His Hands On
in 1984."

Just so the late model lovers didn't get their panties in a bunch, I
also posted this link to the all-time 50-fastest:
http://www.autofacts.ca/classics/fast.htm -- way, way topheavy with
late models. You have to go halfway down the list, to the mid-13's,
before you start to see the oldies out in force.

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