Minnesota drag racer, Wayne Fritchie proves that El Caminos really can make great drag cars with his 1,327 rear wheel-horse, ProCharged ’65 that runs 8s in the quarter and is capable of cranking 1,500 horses. An early Elk powered by an F3R139-blown 565 big-block, Fritchie’s car has been featured in Car Craft’s Summer Nationals where it wins the event’s dyno shootout every year.

Fritchie’s El Camino is apparently street legal and is never towed to the track on a trailer, though from its performance at the strip one would expect the fast ’65 to be towed behind a race team-sponsored semi, especially in light of the crazy wheelstands that Wayne’s 8-second street Elk pulls in our featured clip.

As we found out a while back from PIE’s turbocharged Dakota R/T, trucks really can stayed glued in the quarter-mile. But with over 1,300 horses at the wheels, Fritchie’s ’65 Elk struggles to stay planted on the ground as it rides on a wheelstand nearly halfway down the strip.

Proving its strength both at the dragstrip and on the chassis dyno, the ProCharged Elk earns for itself a round of applause as it nearly pulls the dyno off of its base, meanwhile loping like an 8-second street car should as it straps down and prepares to make real wheel horsepower.

Fast passes like those 8-second runs displayed by Wayne Fritchie’s El Camino are not possible by all street legal cars, but with the car’s stout ProCharger unit it’s easy to build competitive horsepower without sacrificing overall streetability. Would you build your ride to run 8s if you knew it were possible?!