This year marks the ninth season of Optima's Search for the Ultimate Street Car presented by Advance Auto Parts, and the season opener at the high banks of Charlotte Motor Speedway offered a first look at some new changes for the series. For the first time ever, the series will run alongside Speed Tour, which is highlighted at many stops by the Trans Am series and SVRA vintage races, but also includes International GT and Formula Regional Americas championship racing, among other events.
That means when you come to see the ultimate street cars compete in 2022, you may also be treated to exciting wheel-to-wheel racing action from other professional series, as well as incredible vintage cars, and a rather sizable car show put on by the folks from Hagerty. Alignment with this new series required some changes in the format of the Ultimate Street Car series, most notably in regard to time on the big track in the Falken Tire Road Course Time Trial, which is now run over three days, with the novice run group leading out on Friday.
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What Is Pro Street?
You know it when you see it.
Pro Street in Pure Vision
Builder Steve Strope weighs in on the Pro Street look and what he would build today.
THE GAS ERA LIVES ON
These vintage race cars chart the evolution of technology in the early days of drag racing.
MOTOR HEAD FOR LIFE
Scott Sullivan is one of the original Pro Street pioneers. He still builds cars today out of a small shop in Dayton, Ohio.
BRINGING BACK PRO STREET!
David Freiburger and Roadkill Garage built a Pro Street Nova.
SWEET ASPIRATIONS
Jerry and Matthew Sweet added an 800ci Pro Stock mountain motor to chase HOT ROD Drag Week's Pro Street NA Record.
Making Bad Decisions Badder
Bradley Gray's 1970 Nova is a Hybrid! It's a streetable Funny Car.
ART PROJECT
This Rad Rides by Troy-built '63 split-window Corvette went from restaurant prop to ripping up the street!
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
THE PRO STREET ERA PEAKED IN THE '80S. ARE WE IN THE BEGINNING OF A RESURGENCE?
Making Connections
Project T-top Coupe: We install a Terminator X Max for big power.
