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Multiyear Hot Rod Drag Week overall winner Tom Bailey announced he is building a new car in a live event on his YouTube channel.
He will be collaborating with fellow Drag Week competitor Dennis Taylor, owner of Dennis Taylor Hot Rods, to build a 1955 Chevy Nomad wagon to be powered by a screw-supercharged Steve Morris SMX engine. Tom told Hot Rod that he plans to unveil the finished car at this year's SEMA Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. His 2019 Drag Week winning Six Seconds 2.0 Camaro is still being repaired from a fire that happened at the NHRA Gatornationals earlier this year, but Tom says it will be ready for Drag Week, which is scheduled to start on September 12 at Martin, Michigan.
Tom's new Nomad represents a departure from turbochargers as his go-to power adder, and his goal is to set the engine up to run on gasoline for street driving, methanol at the track, and nitromethane for a crowd-pleasing cacklefest-type performance. Is that ambitious? Yes. But it's also entirely doable, and that could be a trend other Drag Weekers and similar builds will follow.
In the meantime, satisfy your Drag Week and car-building fix by subscribing to Tom Bailey's YouTube channel for regular updates on the Nomad and his Camaro. We will keep you updated on his progress here at HotRod.com, as well.