wasn’t fast enough for Stone, whose C4 won the title of "Fastest Street Vette In Texas" in 1999. In the process, he went through five engine builds, the last four done by Absolute Performance, a tuner in Jacksonville, Arkansas.
    How fast did he have to turn the quarter to win? In ‘99, his 10.81/133 beat all the other Corvettes. But that was after David "slipped past" the safety tech at the Texas Motorplex in Ennis. He’d have won the following fall too, except a hawkeye safety inspector noticed he didn’t have door bars on his roll cage. His consolation was that he did record the fastest ET of the day, a 10.42, and was prepared to hit the high nines with slicks and a full shot of nitrous.
    We caught up with Stone at the Viper/Vette Shootout last july at