What do you know ?

[TOM KASCH]

What year was Super Stock 1s t ran in NHRA ?
Have to wait till tomorrow to find out if you don't know.
& who was the 1st National points champ ?

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by tom kasch

what year was super stock 1s t ran in nhra ?
Have to wait till tomorrow to find out if you don't know.
& who was the 1st national points champ ?

1957 was the first year for s/s. Dont remember a national points champ. I have CRS but the Nationals S/S champ that year was a guy named Zink. Thats about all I remember.

[Jeff Teuton]

What I remember from the 50's (gee) is that S/S was the fastest class in Stock Eliminator which was S/S, then A thru E. Now maybe that was local, but it was NHRA sanctioned and was run at all the old airport tracks. Then there was some variation for the faster U/S (ultra stock) which was then followed by S/S then A-E. Around 60-61 A friend had a 60 Impala Convertable 348/335 which ran S/S whereas the lighter 2 DR. Hdtp ran U/S with the same combo. In 58, the 57 Chevrolet car 283/270 ran S/S and the 58 Impala 348/280 (3 carb) ran A/S.

[TOM KASCH]

57 is WRONG !

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by TOM KASCH

57 is WRONG !

I beg to differ. It was the first year NHRA ran a class "called" S/S in Oklahoma at the 57 Nationals. It was NOT run as a seperate eliminator at that time. Just class. They had six classes S/S, A/S, B/S, C/S, D/S and E/S.
Just to add that an accual Super Stock elim. was developed in 1967 with 10 classes. Ed Miller won the World Finals in that year with a 65 4 speed Hemi Plymouth. Prior to that it was called Top Stock which could include AA/S, A/S, Optional (1961) S/S, Super Stock and Super Super Stock. The rules and names of the classes/eliminator changed almost every year. The question was somwhat misleading.

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by X-TECH MAN

1957 was the first year for s/s. Dont remember a national points champ. I have CRS but the Nationals S/S champ that year was a guy named Zink. Thats about all I remember.

Yep, Jack Zink with a '57 Pontiac. He also won the Indy 500 one year (1960?). There is a Zink Museum at the Zink ranch. John Zink Company is a big heat exchanger (?) company here in Tulsa.One of his Indy cars was last time I was there, long time ago. He also owned dirt track cars here for several years and won many races and championships.

Jerry Weidenman won the Nationals, I think the next year, with a red & white fuel injected
'57 Chevy 2dr sedan. Forget now if it was a 150 or 210 series. Think it was a 210. Jerry also got the only 1961 409" here in town. Red Biscayne 2 door sedan. In '62 everybody had one. Last I heard Jerry was retired as a fishing guide in east Texas.

[TOM KASCH]

x-teck man is right, but I don't think you can call the 57 race as the 1st.

[TOM KASCH]

I'm scaning Indy programs for a new book on stock being written.

[TOM KASCH]

Trying to upload these before.

Have the 1967 class run down to post if I can get it right.