Originally Posted by Dinsdale (Post 158127)

And now an opinion from a Bracket Racer who loves Stock and S/S but is becoming more and more disillusioned about the classes. My first Drag Race experience was at the age of 14 with a guy who ran a new 67 GTX in D/S. Yes, that means I'm now old! I bracket raced a bit over the years but always followed the classes. As it stands now, I can't find much "Stock" about stockers and suspect a new kid coming to the track wouldn't either. S/S get's me wound up and I even like the GT classes but draw the line at FWD conversion Comp cars being called Super Stockers. I also suspect a new person to the track wouldn't understand that either.

I've watched these classes go from balls out first to the finish cars the average person can relate to, become a game of who can manipulate their qualifying spot, hit the brakes, run to 1000', hide illegal modifications, get more and more non stock stuff approved, hide behind a soft index, complain about someone who get's you HP and on and on!! And some of you wonder why or where the new guys are going to come from. A victim of your own success comes to mind in that it's now just too expensive and too much trouble to the average guy. The sanctioning bodies are as much of the problem as anyone else but we'll all be dead and buried before they give a rat's A**

Before the shooting starts, I have everything I need to change my "bracket" car to a legal Stocker for less than $5000.00 worth of parts but can't see any reason why I'd want to. It wouldn't be a killer car but would qualify or I'd do whatever it took. I just have more fun racing with my stick shift friends.

The guy in the near lane is a Legal S/S Hemi stick car. I'm the lowley bracket racer in the far lane.............We both had fun!!

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Originally Posted by Billy Nees (Post 158146)

If you really want kids to get interested in Stock and SS then take your S/SS cars to the local track and run the local program! It won't kill you and might make you a better racer. Also, make yourself available to answer questions and maybe give a helping hand. Kids nowadays don't really want to get into rules but at least I've found that by BSing with them and trying to teach them a few things they are starting to understand and take a slight interest in what I'm doing.
Remember, we all started somewhere!

Originally Posted by Dale Shannon (Post 158149)

Nice looking car great leave for the old mustang, parcel to thoses old fords, I think your 100% right it was a sport that was for fun, now most because of cost have to run it as a business, well good luck on that venture. Can anyone remember when NHRA moved most of the SS cars to COMP and the Stock cars to SS? Started over with Stock. Is time for something like that again?