LEAD SLED LEA
Lea Ochs, “the First Lady of True Street”, blasts off the starting line in her nitrous-assisted 1978 Ford
Fairmont station wagon during a test pass at the Texas True Street Shootout. She went on to claim a runner-
up finish in what would be one of the car’s last passes before it suffered a 100-plus-mph impact with the
retaining wall one month later at Shannon Morgan’s Redemption No-Prep race at Texas Motorplex. Ochs,
the 2017 Doomsday No-Prep True Street winner, went to work rebuilding the Fairmont with fab work by
James Mowdy of Hazard Fab. Now known as “The Resurrection”, the car will sport a turbocharged, 400 ci
LSX motor built by Lea’s husband, Gary, and backed by a Mr. Wendell’s Motorsports-prepared transmission.
Photograph by Chris Graves
North Star Dragway | Denton, Texas | Saturday, April 22, 2017
March 2018
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