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http://www.competitionplus.com/drag...updates-taylor-covers-60-feet-in-0874-seconds

With crewchief and brother Paul, Taylor made his first test of the refurbished engine in good, (but not great), conditions on Wednesday with a corrected elevation of 787 feet above sea level. The launch covered the first sixty feet is an astonishing 0.874 seconds, the quickest in passenger car history by more than a hundredth of a second, before overpowering the world's quickest racetrack shortly after. Other than a 0.872 "sixty" clocked in testing almost a decade ago by Gary Densham in John Force's Mustang, Taylor's launch is quicker than those of NHRA supercharged nitro Funny Cars!
 
And the war wages on.

http://www.competitionplus.com/drag...dates-hossler-hits-351821568-taylor-runs-3529

Opening with a shut-off run on which the car recorded an elapsed time of 0.900 seconds in the first sixty feet, crewchief Frank "Ace" Manzo and team consultant Billy Stocklin later tuned the new Jerry Bickel Race Cars Chevy to a 3.542 at a career-best 213.64 mph. A third attempt in atmospheric conditions of a mere 86 feet above seal level resulted in a 3.530; the run was within one thousandth of a second of Taylor's new 3.529 record but came with the fastest speed ever recorded at 214.96 mph to erase Taylor's 212.42 best posted on January 17. Finally, Hossler staged for a fourth shot in virtually perfect conditions of 62 degrees, a track temperature of 80 degrees and a corrected elevation of eight feet below sea level. The result was an indescribable 3.518 at an amazing 215.68 miles per hour.

The maroon Camaro covered the first sixty feet in 0.898 seconds
 
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