"I finally just bit the bullet and started racing, and now, I'm hooked," he said during the 2022 edition of Holley LS Fest East.

Davis hails from outside of Nashville in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, and considers Beech Bend Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky – the annual site of the LS Fest event – his home track.

He campaigns a black 1998 Chevrolet S10 with a production-based aluminum 6.0L GM LS engine under the hood. A four-inch stroke brings the power plant to 402 cubic inches, and the engine utilizes a Callies crank and rods, Wiseco pistons, Trick Flow rectangular-port cylinder heads and a Kong Performance 2650 supercharger.

Although the truck began its life with a four-cylinder power plant, Davis has also outfitted the vehicle with 5.3L and 6.2L LS options before settling on the 6.0.

"I've got a garage full of motors," he said. "Just about all I fool with is LS stuff."

He was a Big-Block fan who calls himself an LS convert, and the LSX badges that adorn his truck drive that point home.

"The LS motors will easily make Big-Block power unless you get in there pretty serious with a Big-Block," he explained. "They make good, easy power, especially with any type of power adder ... I just got hooked on them."

The LS in his truck helps him hook on the drag strip, and the powertrain also includes an FTI Powerglide transmission and a nine-and-half-inch JW Performance torque converter.

Davis added rack-and-pinion steering, but much of the suspension remains stock, including leaf springs in the rear. Aftermarket components include a nine-inch Ford rear end with a 3:70 gear and Viking double adjustable shocks all the way around, along with drag racing-specific features like Smith Racecraft Assassin bars for added traction and wheelie bars to keep the truck on the ground.

 The S10 weighs 3,400 pounds, but it doesn't limit Davis from pulling off some pretty epic wheel stands on the starting line.

"I think the weight of the truck actually helps it pull because it's so heavy," he said.

In fact, Davis has twice clocked 5.57-second passes in the eighth mile – on both occasions he accomplished the feat at Beech Bend.

"I'm very lucky it runs as good as it does and I've had some good help from different people that build race cars, along with friends of mine," Davis said.

Davis often hits the track and works in his garage with a variety of friends and family, and during LS Fest, his son Dylan's LSA-equipped Malibu was pitted behind his father's truck.

It was also a friend who convinced Davis to get on the track for the first time.

"Just about all of my friends are drag racers of some kind and I've been around drag racing since I was an early teenager," he said. "Honestly I was just too shy to get out and do it. But a buddy told me, ‘It won't matter if there's 10 people in the stands or 10,000, you don't pay any attention.' And he's right."

Davis originally had planned on re-selling his S10, but over the past handful of years it has become a major part of his identity. He races often and has competed at tracks like Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park and Bristol Dragway in addition to Beech Bend. At LS Fest he was running in the Truck and SUV class, but usually competes in the Super Pro ranks at various bracket racing events.

"One good thing about bracket racing or drag racing is anybody can do it no matter what your budget is," he said. "If you've got a small budget you just might not have as nice a vehicle or as fast a vehicle, but anybody can get into it, and I'll tell you this, it's a lot harder than it looks."

Davis owned a two-way radio store for many years, but "semi-retired" two and a half years ago and often takes on automotive projects in his home shop. Among his recent tasks was performing an EFI conversion on a friend's 1967 Chevy pickup. Working on vehicles has always just been a hobby, but he often jokes that he's in his shop from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.