[Rich Biebel]

The average working class guy .....like myself....could not be competitive with a car he bought off the showroom floor and raced all the way back to 1966 when I raced in Jr Stock....If you could afford a new car it would need a lot of work to make it competetive.....and any car that was raced needed a lot of work to run anywhere near what the top cars ran.

Pure Stock was for locals in the late 60's.....and at our local track they ran Cups and Bucks....Cups cars were NOT competetive with the Bucks cars.....The cups cars ran for a class trophy......the Bucks cars ran for the eliminator money.....and you had to win your class first.....

Pure Stock came along on a more serious level in 1972 after NHRA dumped Stock......and had ringers( purpose built cars) in there too......but was not all that popular as I recall it....

Jr Stockers were built from the ground up by the mid 60's......and had all kinds of tricks in them....They were NOT Stock other than the parts required to be run....and many of those parts were already being modified or replaced...Aftermarket pistons.....Aftermarket cams....both were very common by the mid 60's...... Traction devices....Shifters....Clutches......Transmissions .....Wheels.....all these parts were commonly changed modified or replaced with aftermarket....

I raced a car in 1966 thru 1968 and another one in 1970-1972 both stockers. Neither car was "Stock"......and one was basically not even a combination that was ever built by GM....