[Bill Harris]

Hey Jim, didn't mean to scare you off, just letting you know that the car does fit into several stock classes and has potential, but not for free.

If you want to keep it close to stock then there isn't any reason you couldn't run it as a 390/300 factored to 280 by the NHRA. It wouldn't take a ton of work to do that since you have the stock engine and (hopefully) carb. M/SA index is only 13.15 and you could probably get it to run that and better without spending a fortune.

The car has a leaf spring rear suspension with a 9" which is great and all you would need is a set of springs, shocks and bars from Calvert. 9" slicks would probably fit just fine in the wheelwells with the right offset wheel. You'd need a steep gear and a locker or spool and good axles, especially since min weight in M at 280HP is 4090 Lbs with you in the car.

Don't know what the front suspension looks like on these things but a set of lightweight wheels and tires and some loose shocks would get you started.

You could have the short block professionally rebuilt with the stock rods and a set of CP pistons and get Bullet to grind you an appropriate stocker cam. Have Blair Patrick do the heads.

The car probably has a Ford-o-matic trans which would need to be replaced with a prepped C4 and the appropriate converter, but that is easy.

It would be a cool car and with some work it might be quite competitive in class. Depending on what the car really weighs in race trim you might want to run L/SA instead with a 13.00 index and a min race weight of 3950 lbs.

If you set it up to run NHRA and IHRA stock class, you could still run the NSS an NMC events.