{"id":100004,"date":"2025-04-07T22:18:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T22:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/adler-father-son-duo-unearth-famed-pro-street-66-gto-for-2025-return\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T22:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T22:18:28","slug":"adler-father-son-duo-unearth-famed-pro-street-66-gto-for-2025-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/adler-father-son-duo-unearth-famed-pro-street-66-gto-for-2025-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Adler Father-Son Duo Unearth Famed Pro Street \u201966 GTO For 2025 Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Growing up, Randy Adler Jr. heard tales, saw photos, and watched videos of the legendary \u201966 Pontiac GTO that his father raced in NMCA\u2019s Outlaw Street in the late \u201890s. Owned by Lynwood Wood, the car was supercharged on methanol and terrorized NMCA events, Fastest Street Car shootouts, and standalone street car events like the World Street Nationals in Orlando. The GTO was sold off before Adler Jr. was even born and its new owner only brought it out a few times before it started collecting cobwebs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Adlers lost contact with the car for the better part of two decades until a fellow racer, Corey Smith, reached out and said he knew where the car was and that the owner would consider selling it, but only to Adler. Naturally, Adler jumped at the opportunity, and now the family is planning to get the car back on track, this time with the younger Adler behind the wheel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Wood originally drove the GTO himself, but Adler got behind the wheel to help sort out some issues during a test session and recorded the car\u2019s best numbers by a bunch, so Wood tapped him to drive it and brother Robbie Adler to tune it. That was in 1992 or 1993 and Adler continued to drive it through the 1997 season. Along the way, Adler won a bunch of races and had some wild times.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBack when they used to run the Outlaw Street deal at Orlando, you had to do a 25-mile cruise before the race, but it was just laps around the racetrack,\u201d Adler Jr. said. \u201cThey would have Paul Cattoni and Robbie sitting at the trailer, and every two laps, he had to stop, leave the car running, take the front end off, and fill it with fuel. They used the whole 55-gallon drum of methanol just to do the cruise.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a car that started the Pro Street revolution along with Tony Christian, Pat Musi, and guys like that,\u201d Adler Jr. continued. \u201cAt the 1995 World Street Nationals, they had the field covered by two tenths and my dad red-lit first or second round. My uncle Robbie didn\u2019t talk to him the whole 18-hour drive back home. I heard all kinds of stories like this growing up and I just fell in love with the car.<\/p>\n

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Over the last several years, the Adler father-son duo have had numerous car projects going on at any one time, from Adler\u2019s screw-blown \u201957 Chevy Pro Mod to Adler Jr.\u2019s bracket cars. The opportunity to purchase the GTO and bring it back into the family for the two to campaign together was too enticing. They went to look at the car last year and purchased it from Tony Butts in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe raced it like three times \u2013 it still had my dad\u2019s seatbelts in it. It had just been sitting in a trailer. It still had the 1996 Gateway stickers on it. It was like a time capsule,\u201d Adler Jr. said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t have the time for it, but the car meant a lot to him. Props to Tony because he was able to let it go to us. He did us a huge favor there. He didn\u2019t have to sell it. It was just as sentimental to him as it was to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the way home from picking up the car outside Detroit, the Adlers took a detour to swing by Wood\u2019s house to surprise him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t exactly tell him what we did, we just said, \u2018Hey, we\u2019re gonna be riding by you in about 10 minutes. You should probably look out your front window,\u2019\u201d Adler Jr. said. \u201cWe rode by and parked that sucker right in the median, and I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen Lynwood smile that much. He\u2019s a very reserved guy, but he was smiling from ear to ear. It was like he found his long-lost brother or something. He was so happy to see that car.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Adlers took the GTO to Pat Powers to complete some chassis work to bring it up to 2025 safety specs. They also had to swap it back to fit a blown alcohol power plant, as it had been converted to run a nitrous engine. The car will also get its trademark flames back in the coming weeks to prepare for its on-track return with a schedule that includes the second annual Havlik\u2019s FSC Shootout Tribute Race presented by Red Line Oil, August 14-17, at Cordova Dragway.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re actually going to make it to Havlik\u2019s race where we have a locked-in race with Annette Summer \u2013 eighth-mile, clocks off, run what ya brung,\u201d Adler Jr. said. \u201cWe\u2019re hoping to do some match racing at World Street Nationals, but we\u2019re definitely going to go run Super Pro Street there with me driving. I feel like that\u2019s something we\u2019ve gotta do. Al Tucci will probably fall off his chair in the tower.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll probably also run some Chicago Wiseguys races,\u201d Adler Jr. continued. \u201cWe want to get the car out and learn. This is going to be my first time really tuning a mechanically fuel-injected blower car. I have a lot to learn in a really short amount of time. I\u2019m really thankful to Robbie for working with me on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Adler Jr. hasn\u2019t set any firm performance goals for the GTO just yet. It\u2019s a situation where the journey means just as much, if not more, than the destination.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it goes 4.30s with us leaning on it, I would be jumping for joy,\u201d said Adler Jr., who\u2019s been as quick as 5.01 at 140 mph in the eighth mile. \u201cWe\u2019re going to throw Dad in the car first. I would much rather have him shake it down, then I\u2019ll work my way there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is just something for me and him,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe both never thought we\u2019d even see the car again, let alone be able to drive it and tune it again. This is just fun. We\u2019re doing this because it\u2019s just cool. It doesn\u2019t really fit into anything, but it\u2019s just so cool to revive something that has so much sentimental value to the family and that paved the way for a lot of the racing we see today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This story was originally published on April 7, 2025. \"Drag<\/p>\n

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