We’ve covered this super-sleeper ’89 Dodge Caravan SE before, but since Mondays have a particular way of getting us down, we thought we’d dust this one off and have a good laugh.

Equipped with a blow-through turbo as well as some pretty sedate stuff like power windows and locks, rear window defogger, power brakes and steering, AM/FM cassette, the van is a daily driver with over 138,000 miles on the clock.

To get this shaggin’ wagon into the 12’s, the owner Paul, removed the middle and rear seats and spare tire, bringing the race weight down to 3060 with a quarter tank. Being front-wheel-drive, the Caravan lacks a drive shaft loop.

Paul retells the events of this drag race: “[It was great] to pull up at the start line next to the guy that just dropped $4000 in the engine of his Camaro, and see him laugh and shrug me off, then get him by a full car length in the first 60 feet, and be ahead of him by four or five car lengths at the end, still pulling away!”

“All of my kids are jumping up and down in the stands yelling, ‘That’s my dad!’ Then after the run, pull over to park, and the crowd starts to gather around my van, and my boys come running up, ‘You won!’ I open the hood and everyone is surprised to see a 4 cylinder!”