Pre view of jr stker book on youtube
 

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Tom thanks for the preview. way cool!!!!

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Looks like it should be a good book to have, Thank you !

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What defines Jr. Stock from Stock? I bought the 1964-1971 Stock Eliminator cars were called "Stock", not "Jr. Stock". Wasn't Jr. Stock the post 1971 to (1974?) era that was more like Pure Stock?

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Definitely not , sonny ;-)

Jr Stock existed in the 65-70 era

Chuck Norton or Colesy could be more specific here.

I placed this Youtube link in the Nostalgia section, which is where I thought it belonged.
One can never tell what's acceptable here...
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There's 500 pages here ...I'm sure the official designation is, too. Can't find it at the moment

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...t=junior+stock

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Pops...still didn't answer the question. What's the difference between Jr. Stock & Stock? Or are the one in the same for that era. I'll wait until you take your Geritol and Lawrence Welk reruns are over.... :p

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I'm working on it, Jeffro.
I've been busy watching Murder She Wrote...

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For the youngsters>>


The term Junior Stock originated in the early '60s, when the NHRA took the fastest cars in Stock Eliminator--Super/Stock, AA/Stock, A/Stock Automatic, and so on--and packaged them in a separate category it called Top Stock Eliminator. As the muscle car era arose, this category was seen as a bankable spectator attraction. Meanwhile, everything from B/Stock down went into a separate eliminator, to run while everyone headed to the concession stands. At various times, the NHRA called this lower-classed eliminator Junior Stock or simply Stock Eliminator, but the Junior Stock label just sort of stuck, and Junior Stock racers wore it as a badge of honor, especially the racers from the NHRA's Division 1 in the Northeast, the hotbed of Junior Stock racing in the '60s.

Read more: http://www.hotrod.com/whereitbegan/h...#ixzz1x3kebpVY

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The name Jr Stock....probably was popularized by the magazines more than anywhere else....

Car Craft, Hot Rod.....Super Stock and Drag Illustrated....and maybe some oher publications like Drag News.....

National Dragster had weekly writeups from tracks all over the country with results and pictures.

The term probably came about by an announcer somewhere who used the term for the lower classes...and it stuck....

Our Local track ran a seperateTop Stock eliminator......A to J stick and auto....
and Stock 2 or II for the lower classes....and thats where the name probably first popped up....the lower class cars.

55- 57 Chevies and later years in every body style including wagons were very popular....

You could run a lot of different classes with say a '57 Chevy.......and all the engine/trans combos were accepted for a while.....4 speeds......all the engine combos....hydros in sedan deliveries.....The golden era so to speak for those type cars......

When NHRA knocked out the non- production line combos it really hurt the categorie and a lot of people were po'ed by that move.....and a few years later NHRA dropped Stock altogether in favor of Super Stock or Pure Stock......

I was out of it by 1971 I think it was.........after starting in 1966