Originally, Outlaw 10.5 racing was an offshoot of NMCA’s Fastest Street Car Shootout, introduced in 1992 at Memphis Motorsports Park, and where the next year, the Super Street 10.5 class first made an impact. Additionally, sponsorship logos were limited to the car’s windshield or hood scoop in order to preserve the “street car” appearance of the class. Any engine size and any power adder or combination of power adders was allowed, giving credence to the “outlaw” moniker, though nitro always remained a no-go for insurance and safety reasons. The traditional Outlaw 10.5 car had to conform to five basic limitations: stock firewall, stock-style front suspension, mufflers, and all in a 3,000-pound package riding on 10.5-inch rear slicks (though the tread width of 10.5W tires actually measures about 11.25 inches). Plus, as the cars got faster, it cost more to field them, the teams grew more professional, and an entire cottage industry sprang up to serve the burgeoning O/L 10.5 scene. Outlaw racing attracted individuals in the purest sense, racers who for money or travel reasons preferred not to join the major sanctioning bodies-or who simply didn’t like to be told what they could or couldn’t do to their cars.īut without an overseer, rules remained loose, safety was often an afterthought (if thought of at all), record runs remained open to debate, and there was no accurate way to establish who actually deserved to be called a champion.
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Staged in relative obscurity at marginal eighth-milers across the Carolinas, through Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee, with the occasional trip down to Florida, Outlaw 10.5 (O/L 10.5) racing in the 1990s often resembled little more than a series of loosely organized grudge matches where side bets often exceeded advertised purses.
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