If our memories serve us correctly (and that’s questionable at times), just two racers have previously pulled the incredible feat of clocking sub seven-second passes on 275 drag radial tires, but after an outing a week ago in Bakersfield, California, you can add a third name to that exclusive list.

Lancaster, California native Kelly Henry has been a regular competitor on the west coast with his 1991 Ford Mustang, racing with the PSCA, WCHRA, and NMCA WEST, scoring runner-up honors in the standings in the WCHRA’s True 10.5 class in 2013 and the X275 championship a year ago.  With the season in the books but the weather favorable for racing, as it always is in SoCal, Henry was testing his mount at the famed Auto Club Famoso Raceway and clicked off a stunning 6.994 at 203.40 MPH, with a 1.175 short time and 4.586 at 162.59 MPH to half track and 5.889 to 1,000-feet. Henry had gone 7.01 at 201 on an earlier pass.

With that, Henry joins fellow Mustang racers Phil Hines and Andrew DeMarco in the six-second 275 drag radial club.

Henry’s H&H Racing Mustang is powered by a big block Chevrolet built by A.R.E Performance and Machine and fed copious amounts of boost by ProCharger’s world-beating F3R-136 supercharger, which is responsible for a host of records in the small-tire doorslammer world. Henry also utilizes a Holley EFI system and Chris Alston’s Chassisworks’ trick Component Drive System  gear drive on the car to spin the supercharger. Tuning is handled by Eddie Rios at Addiction Motorsports.

Making the run all the more impressive is the fact that Henry’s Mustang is a true stock suspension ride, void of many of the liberties that modern small-tire cars have taken in the name of performance. Oh, and it also crosses the scales at a hefty 3,400 lbs.

No doubt Henry won’t be the last in the sixes, but he can proudly lay claim to being one of the first to break a barrier that even today, in a sport where anything seems possible with enough money, is considered jaw-dropping. And the fact that he did it the old fashioned way, and not with an Outlaw 275-style setup, just makes it all the more stunning.