Boss 302 Mustang Drags Blower GTO, Chevy, and Turbo GTI, Someone's a Six-Second Rascal

As opposed to venues like The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, zMAX Dragway, Texas Motorplex, or the great Orlando Speed World, Island Dragway is quite an intimate venue. However, believe it or not, its traditional 'Test & Tune Day' events attract a lot of feisty racers and their incredible rides. Hey, there's no need to take our word for granted.

Instead, suppose you sift through our archive from their races. In that case, you'll see this passionate racing-dedicated channel on YouTube has plenty of surprises, including assets like a Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 getting a nasty surprise from a six-second monster when dragging Ford Mustangs and classic muscle cars, quirky encounters between things like the Ford Mustang Mach-E and a Pontiac G8 GT; Plaids dragging each other with no mercy and taking no prisoners, or even unexpected rivalries between a Ford Explorer ST and Toyota GR Supra that yields a surprising result, plus the usual array of Hellcats, GMs, Blue Ovals, and Ram TRXs.

Not long ago, since the fame of the dragstrip probably soared above and beyond, the videographer has also started capturing old-school shenanigans like an orange Plymouth Road Runner fighting the Chevy Corvette or a Buick Regal and turning out to be a stellar nine-second rascal, the mighty Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat sharing the racetrack with a hilarious-looking 'lifted' Ford Falcon (gasser), or an orange Monte Carlo double-racing a 1947 Mercury and making it feel blue about its losses, not just the body's color. But wait, as there is more.

A recent feature (embedded below) shows us a very unlikely pairing – a green Ford Mustang was involved in a skirmish with a classic first-generation Pontiac GTO. However, as you might have guessed, there was nothing classy about these two meeting at the racetrack. Instead, the Blue Oval is a rascal second-generation Boss 302 packing a nasty twin-turbo assembly, according to the description, and the not-so-original GTO is no saint either with its black paint and hidden blower assembly!
This meeting has the potential of turning out into a race of the ages, but we were initially surprised to see the Boss 302 stand idle in its lane and showcase a huge difference between the reaction times: 1.95 for the roaring GTO and 14.06 for the Mustang. It was all a ruse, as it turns out, because the Ford shot out like a green bat out of hell, and while the GTO wrapped the pass in a respectable 11.29s, the 302 easily showed who's boss with a 6.84s victory!

Next up, after the Blue Oval initially gave us the heebie-jeebies, things got settled into the proper perspective – the Mustang racer was either giving its opponents a chance to fight (aka 'the hit') or he was simply trying to protect them because his built monster could easily turn everything into a disaster in case of losing control after a mechanical failure (which is quite common with these unique wonders).

As such, next up came an old-school G-body, a third-generation Chevy Monte Carlo, as far as we can tell (with a 355 badge on the raised hood, by the way). It, too, got the hit (0.35 versus 13.96 reaction times), but it was still not enough because the ETs showed yet another case of demolishing the adversary: 11.19s versus 6.83s! Last but not least came a quirky little first-gen Volkswagen Golf GTI (Rabbit in the US and Canada, as per the square headlights) that also felt like a little monster, too – a front-wheel drive one. Well, the case was closed just the same: 6.8s versus 11.1s!

And, in case you are wondering if we’re reading the electronic scoreboard correctly, we also had the same thought – just look at the final race and how the tiny lights form the figures of six and the eight right next to it. There’s no shadow of doubt about this Boss 302 being a true six-second boss, right?