Kids eating vegetables, the sun setting to the east, and college professors voting Republican—some things just aren't supposed to happen. So when Junior grabs a carrot instead of a candy bar, the earth reverses rotation on its axis, and Professor Smith votes for Bush, it’s a pretty big deal. In the world of drag racing, for brutally hard, consistent launches and impressive e.t.’s for a given mph, nothing beats a stalled and 'braked automatic until you get into Lenco/Jerico/Liberty territory. Conventional stick cars just aren't supposed to run repeatable 8s, but when Mark Luton of X2C Motorsports in Van Nuys, California, runs 8.99 at 155 mph and sets a new Tremec-five-speed record in the process, it warrants some hard-earned attention. All that at Los Angeles County Raceway, a track half…