Our first question was how fast was this Lingenfelter 427 in the quarter-mile, especially since our location was the Beech Bend Raceway Park drag strip in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Plus, Drews had a special weapon - John Lingenfelter himself, who was at Beech Bend to give a seminar on drag racing. If anybody could get a good time, John could with one of his own tuner cars.
    Alan revealed, "He ran a 12.4 at 124 MPH for his best on the street tires" Observing the launches, we noticed that Lingenfelter couldn’t get the radials to hook up. The tires smoked through first and the start of second and third gears. Obviously, Alan’s 427 needed a set of slicks to take advantage of the 500 horsepower and 500 foot pounds of torque, the former peaking at 5,600 rpm and the latter