Finnegan's Garage

We Set a Record in Blasphemi! (2019x80)

Air date: Sep 28, 2019

This is the story of how my friends and I rebuilt my 1955 Chevy Bel Air Gasser in my home garage and then showed up to Hot Rod Drag Week 2019 and won our class. We overcame extreme sleep deprivation, tons of broken parts, and a grueling 760 mile drive to win the A/Gas class. We couldn't have done it without a lot of help and the best part is the in addition to this video about the trip there will also be a special extended episode of Roadkill airing on the Motor Trend App. Drag Week is a five day road trip with drag racing every day. The rules state that you must follow a specific route each day to four different tracks. At each track you can make as many 1/4 mile passes as you like but you can only turn in a single time slip. At the end of five days the five time slips you submit are added together and then averaged and the lowest average in each class is determined to be the winner. In 2018 I came in Second Place in the A/Gas class, which is for nostalgic '60s-era Gasser style cars. Since that time, Blasphemi, my Bel Air, has been broken and rebuilt several times. It spent most of 2019 inside my garage instead of on the street. I finally changed engine builders and a few other key components on the car and found the reliability that has eluded me the past two years. Blasphemi ran a record-setting 8.52 second pass at 161 mph at Drag Week and finished the event in one piece. It's still running and is back home in my garage, which means I can finally turn my attention to other projects like the turbo boat and my '67 Chevy C10.