Worlds Fastest Pickup

["Mitchell D. Murray" <MitchellMurray@compuserve.com>]

On Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:01:48 -0500,
Alex C. Green, alex@ravenet.com wrote in part:

>Does anyone have any info or article reprints on the Gale Banks prepped
>Syclone LSR that back around '90-91 set the world land speed record for the
>fastest truck running at Boneville @210mph?

I am not sure of all the details, it has been a few years, but I think the
truck that set the record around '90-91 at
Boneville at about 210mph was not a Syclone and it was not Gale Banks prepared.
It was a two-wheel-drive extended cab (with the extra room in back of the front
seats and the little windows on the sides behind the door windows)
GMC S-15 with a normally aspirated (un-blown) 300 cubic inch V-6.
The engine used was based on a Chevy bow tie 90 degree V-6 cast iron siamesed block
with 3.75inch stroke and 4.125inch bore.
It used Chevy splayed-valve aluminum heads and short individual injector stacks.
The driver was a guy named something like "Don Stringfellow".  The Truck was
prepared at the direction of GMC motor sports.
This engine was later used in a different new-body-style two-wheel-drive
GMC pickup that went on tour with the NHRA drag racing series and did
exhibition runs during breaks in the program.  
It was also prepared at the direction of GMC motor sports.
I think it turned in the low 10's to high 9's, on gas, normally aspirated
(no blower).  The truck was lightened and the engine was supposed to put
out about 700 hp (not bad for 300 cubic inches, on gas, un-blown).
I looked through my old magazines to try to find some articles on these trucks but
I could not find them.
I remember that "Don Stringfellow" (or some name similar),
who actually drove the LSR record truck, wrote in to the Winstorm advisor to talk
about the LSR truck and to point out that it was not a Syclone, and his comments
were published in one of the first few issues of
the Winstorm advisor.  I could not find my copy of the issue - it's packed away
in a box somewhere.
Maybe some of the other mail list members can add some more information.

Mitch Murray