Drag Illustrated Issue 151, December 2019 | Page 73

BY NATE VAN WAGNEN
ATT DADAS AND GAGE BURCH are hunched over the
log books resting on their work bench, comparing notes before
going into day two of the No Box Nationals at Summit Motorsports
Park in Norwalk, Ohio. Last night, Dadas won a $7,500 race.
Today, $20,000 is up for grabs. ¶ The Dadas family’s three-car
compound is inconspicuous among rows and rows of motorhomes,
stackers and open trailers, yet it’s home to two of the most prof-
itable race cars in drag racing this year. Dadas raced his father’s
1980 Oldsmobile Starfire to a runner-up finish at the Fall Fling
500K just a week ago, and he owns the 1984 Ford Ranger that carried Burch to victory at the
SFG 500 in June. ¶ “In both the 500s, to stage up two cars that were built in a pole barn in Ver-
milion, Ohio, that’s pretty cool,” Dadas admits. “Neither one of us have purpose-made race cars,”
Burch adds. “They were on the street at one point. Whether we built them ourselves or bought
them off somebody, they were originally street cars and we made them into what they are today.”
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