A 3,500-HP Chevelle Named Yeti Just Terrorized Alberta’s Biggest Drag Strip — And It Wasn’t Even the Scariest Car There

A 1970 Chevelle nicknamed ‘Yeti’ rolled into Alberta’s Rocky Mountain Nationals packing a 3,400-3,500-horsepower billet Hemi — and still had to share the spotlight with a nitrous Pro Mod chasing track records and a screaming blown ’57 Chevy. Here’s what went down at Canada’s biggest NHRA Pro Mod showdown.

A 1970 Chevelle named after a mythical snow monster just rolled onto a drag strip built on land leased from an international airport, and it wasn’t even the most intimidating car in the lineup. At Alberta’s RAD Torque Raceway, the Rocky Mountain Nationals turned into a full-blown Pro Mod gauntlet, with nitrous-huffing Corvettes, a supercharged Hemi-powered Chevelle pushing well past 3,000 horsepower, and a screaming blown ’57 Chevy all trading launches under the lights. This is the kind of night that reminds you Canada’s drag racing scene doesn’t get nearly the respect it deserves — and this particular Chevelle has a backstory that makes the horsepower number almost beside the point.

About the Video

The video, posted by Nitromaniac TV’s Drag Files, compiles Pro Mod eliminations action from the 2026 NHRA Rocky Mountain Nationals, held July 10–12 at RAD Torque Raceway just south of Edmonton. It’s billed as one of the premier Pro Mod showcases in Canadian drag racing, and the footage backs that up — side-by-side doorslammer racing, burnouts that fog the starting line, and eliminations passes from some of the toughest nitrous, blower, and turbo cars north of the border.

Two cars anchor the video. The first is Chevy Reeves’ “Yeti,” a 1970 Chevelle built by Cameron Johnson Race Cars in Lakeland, Florida, running a Pro Line Racing billet Hemi topped with a ProCharger F4-140-1 supercharger — a combination reported to produce somewhere in the 3,400 to 3,500 horsepower range, backed by an M&M Transmission Turbo 400. The second is Mike “The Terminator” Gondziola, a Saskatoon-based nitrous Pro Mod racer who has been chasing track records across Western Canada’s Pro Mod scene. Add in a blown ’57 Chevy running hard in the same eliminations ladder, and you’ve got three completely different approaches to the same 2,500-to-4,000-horsepower problem: blower, nitrous, and raw small-tire grip, all fighting it out on the same quarter-mile.

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The History Behind the Track and the Class

RAD Torque Raceway has been hosting national-caliber drag racing since 1992, when the dragstrip opened under one of its earlier names, Castrol Raceway. The facility has changed hands and sponsors more than once — it’s also been known as Capital City Raceway Park, Capital Raceway, Labatt Raceway, and Budweiser Motorsports Park before RAD Torque Systems picked up the naming rights in 2021. Through all those name changes, one thing has stayed constant: the annual NHRA Mopar Rocky Mountain Nationals held there is the largest NHRA national event held anywhere in Canada, drawing Pro Mod, Nitro Funny Car, Nitro Altered, and Top Fuel Harley entries to a strip built, improbably, on land leased from Edmonton International Airport.

Pro Mod itself is the class that lets full-bodied cars — Chevelles, Camaros, Corvettes, Novas, tri-five Chevys — run turbo, supercharger, or nitrous combinations that push output into the 2,500-to-4,000-plus horsepower range, with the fastest cars in the class capable of quarter-mile passes in the high five-second range at well over 250 mph. Unlike Top Fuel or Funny Car, Pro Mod cars still look like something you could theoretically park at a car show, which is exactly why fans gravitate to them — it’s recognizable sheet metal doing genuinely absurd things. Fans of vintage muscle iron running seriously modified builds should also check out our deep dive on the 1970 Ford Torino Cobra 429, a car that was quietly beating GTOs on the strip decades before Pro Mod horsepower numbers got this extreme.

What Makes It Special

What stands out watching this footage isn’t just the horsepower figures — it’s the variety. In one eliminations ladder you’ve got a purpose-built No Prep Kings-style Chevelle running a billet Hemi and a centrifugal blower, a nitrous-fed C7-style Pro Mod chasing its own track records, and a blown small-block ’57 doing its best impression of a time machine with a supercharger bolted to the front of it. That mix is the whole appeal of Pro Mod as a class: there’s no single “right” way to build a 4,000-horsepower doorslammer, and every combination sounds and launches differently.

It’s also a reminder that some of the best door-slammer racing in North America isn’t happening at the big-name American strips at all — it’s happening on a converted airport runway in Alberta, in front of a crowd that shows up every July no matter how the weather cooperates. For a muscle car culture that can sometimes feel US-centric, that’s worth paying attention to.

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