Mustangs

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Rory McNeil

The red and white 69 Mustang "Fireball" pictured belonged to Chris Sackett from Vancouver BC Canada. Chris bought the new, it was a yellow factory 428 Cobra Jet 4 speed GT. He turned it into a SS/G car in the early 70s, with 14,000 miles on the odometer. This photo was taken at the original Mission Raceway, likely around 1975 or so. Note the number on the windshield, I seem to recall NHRA used a weird index system for a couple of years at that time,never really understood how it worked or what it was based upon. Anybody remember how that index system worked?

1975... A/Dragster was 0.00..everything below that got a fixed spot amount, loosely based on the difference in the records at the closing of 1974 . Flat out, first to finish line, winner.
Car counts suffered greatly..Same cars would win all the time.
1976 then had breakouts back for Divisionals, then by about 77, breakout racing was back in full.
You were allowed to submit one dial under number before the start of eliminations.
Shoe polish racing came to be within a few years after.