Most of it is written in Swedish but I will do my very best in translating some
of the shorter articles...but maybe a mistake or two will follow...?
1983 - Hot Rod Magazine / May
Got a crazy idea, and the officials said OK! So I raced a camping wagon during a lunch brake at a
drag race on Pite Dragway in 1982 and it was published in All Mighty Hot Rod Magazine in May 1983!
It had to be very special to make it into that mag of course...
NOTE; please scroll further down to find an update in the Hot Rod April 2006 issue! =)
Hahaha! At last I found the old edited 3rd generation VHS copy of the race with the
camper behind the Camaro in its early iron-year of 1982! Wonderful memories!
Shouldn't be too hard to better that with the Blackout SS...?
Since the clip is quite long - 1 min 48 seconds - I offer you three sizes and two formats.
(Hopefully, you can soon find more sizes of this clip at the VIDEO page.)
And please perform a "Right Click - Save Target As" to save our server from traffic break down...
Windows 256 KB
Quick Time 256 KB
2000 - Power Magazine / No 5
By Kjelle Gustavsson
(My own translation...)
On Sunday the ET class was won by the ever-so-youthful,
wonderful and almost unthinkably intelligent
Anders "Bostic" Envall. This is his first race since 1985
when Bostic drove 9.85 @ 140 mph with his
"Whiplash" Camaro.
He marked his returned by coming second in the ET class
qualifying with his '96 Impala SS and the reaction times
of a Cow.
Plus a bit of luck when the opponents were in too
much of a hurry.
Same magazine, same event:
(My own translation...)
The return of Bostic to Dragracing after 15 years "out in the cold" became a jamboree.
The Swedish Government sent flowers and a horse.
Bostic's rampage with the Whiplash Camaro is remembered by all that were there - including
the editor who got spanked at the Mora Airfield. Envall (profession: fighter pilot) came
to Mantorp in his computer tuned '96 Impala SS and qualified second in the class. Sure he
had some luck along the way - including in the Final against Lars Madsen (65 Chevelle) who
red- lighted with a pitiful 3 thousands of a second. Lars (who finished 3rd in the Nordic
Championship) was also No 1 qualifier with a perfect 0 in reaction time! Third was Tomas
Steen from Karlstad with a '69 Pontiac Firebird. 39 cars entered the qualifying.
2001- Bilsport Magazine / No 24
By Gunnar Ljungstedt
Headline: BOSTIC - the fairly true story
In Swedish only. Click pages for bigger versions.
2001 - Power Magazine / No 5
By Kjelle Gustavsson
Headline: The Affect of Hook
(My own translation...)
Bostic Envall has worked
his Impala SS.
The big Chevy did
wheelstands and got
12.57 - with just a little
tuned 350 stock engine
and a little nitrous.
Quite good.
Then they had a party
gobbling Carlsberg
"Sort Guld" - Black Gold.
2003 - Impala SScene / Jan-Feb
By Karl Ellwein
Click on each page to read one by one.
2003 - Bilsport Magazine / No 21
By Stefan Boman
Headline: The Swedes that struck at Santa Pod
Click on the heaviest car you can find...
2003 - Bilsport Magazine / No 22
By Stellan Åberg
Headline: World's quickest Impala SS
(My own translation...)
Former Bilsport co-worker and extremely good looking billionaire Anders "Bostic" Envall
from Gothenburg has the world's third fastest Impala SS.
Over 200 Impala-owners are competing in the list and Bostic was 47th last year, so things have
moved fast. The host of the list, Karl Ellwein, revealed that the top two don't drive their cars on
the street. So Bostic's 4-doors family car is the world's quickest Impala SS still on the street.
Whoopsadaisy!
The team is called Blackout Full Size Racing and notched up 10.80 sec at Santa Pod with a
totally destroyed drive belt, not a single tooth was left by the finish. The burnout had a 20 psi of
boost and only 7 psi were left at the finish line. There's a 9 sec ET hiding in "Jesus" - the 396 ci
built by Lennart "Bagar'n" Bergqvist. But then the belt must last all the way.
Without the blower the engine had 498 hp on the dyno and it should in theory give
1000 hp at a maximum of boost.
The Impala SS is driven between all the races and to the day care centre every morning with a
very happy 5 year old, Axel, in a carbon fiber child's car seat. Axel always wants his teachers
and the other children to come outside so that he can proudly show off daddy's car.
If you want to see more visit www.blackout.nu which is only about Bostic's family car.
2003 - Wheels Magazine / Nov
By Olof "Professorn" Svenningsson
(My own translation...)
Bostic - "Fastest in town" in Umeå and the well known racer with the "Whiplash" Camaro.
After a considerable number of years away, Anders "Bostic" Envall (now better looking than
ever before!) has started to race again. As usual the Devil's horns have sprouted and the family
Impala was transformed into a project with two faces. On the strip the daily driver changes its
shape when the belt connects to the ProCharger blower. Then the fuel valve shifts to the fuel
cell containing race fuel, the slicks come on and the fullsize is ready for 10's.
The big cubic smallblock is built by "Bagar'n" in Florida.
2004 - Eurodragster.com / Feb
By Sharkman
