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ou won’t find Alex Healey gunning for points every weekend at the drag strip in his turbocharged LS-powered street machine, and that’s mostly because it IS still a street machine! Points, class racing, and championships aren’t his thing. Instead, he’d rather drive his car regularly on the street and occasionally, when or as needed, hit
the strip as a weekend warrior, or to accept an offer for a grudge race. We caught up with Healey under the scorching sun at the end of a quiet, meager side road leading to a circular turnaround as he unloaded his Navy Blue Metallic 2001 Pontiac Trans Am to ready it for an afternoon photo shoot. Sitting poised and unassuming, the clean and
story and photos by
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