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Originally Posted by t.tosto
Found myself in an awkard situation earlier this week and I thought I would share with you. Built Stocker for 2004 so I could race at Nat'l & Div. events close to home, kind of a dream come true deal. Well,didn't know what to say to family and friends as to why I'm not able to race at Madison in Stock this year!!! HELP!!! It's just hard to stay positive about NHRA anymore, Member since 1982, 2010 will be last. Tony Tosto, #3050 A/S.
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Its funny you wrote this as my wife brought it up the other day when she was looking at a sportman schedule in a old dragster. I have been busting my *** for the last year building a stocker, spending every extra min in the shop working on it, I have been taking every bit of work in the shop (even the stuff that I would not touch with a 10 foot pole before) so I cold afford the best or what I thought was the best for this car. At this point I am lacking a set of heads (got the heads just need the work done on them), ring and pinion and a converter, nothing that I cant get in a reasonable amount of time. Then all the stuff started over what the specs are going to be for stock head cc's and I slowed up a bit then I found out no stock at gateway (my home track for bracket racing) and it came to almost a complete halt. At this point I am going to wait and see if NHRA makes a decision on the head rule for next year and try and be out late in the year. I dont know if I could have been ready and had the points necessary to get into Gateway but I can assure you if they had stock I would have made a better effort I know NHRA has their reasons for not running all the classes at every race but you would think in toughf times when car counts are down they would change things a little to help their bottom line and keep the guys that are still racing happy. OH wait what am I thinking its NHRA