The lowrider ’57 has a 112-inch wheelbase not counting the 96-inch wheelie bars at the rear and the “extender” attached to the front fascia. American Racing Wheels are on each corner with Goodyears on the front and Mickey Thompson 33X10.5’s on the rear.
When the first fast ‘57’s drove out of the South and dominated fast doorslammer racing with legendary drivers like Robbie Vandergriff most of those Chevys were powered by nitrous oxide-injected rat motors. They were the prototypes of today’s Pro Mods, Pro Street and “Ten-wide” race cars. Perhaps that is why Randy Matlock’s race cars are ’57 Chevys.
Matlock has been racing around the St. Louis area for a good many of his 49 years and during that period has had quite a few fast cars and always had been a quarter-mile racer, but after attending a couple of eighth mile only ADRL events and racing with a short-lived eighth-mile Pro Mod series at Gateway International Raceway near St. Louis, it was not all that unusual that when he took delivery of this car in January of ’08 he would opt to race with the American Drag Racing League in its Extreme Ten-Five class.
At the very first ADRL race he attended and attempted to qualify at was at Summit Raceway Park in Norwalk, Ohio. He not only managed to qualify for the elite field but also garnered the Best Appearing Car award. 
A pair of Stroud chutes are deployed to slow the ’57 down. You can just see the Garret-fabricated rear end that houses a set of 3:70 Richmond gears turning a set of Strange axles.