Re: Ss/x
Back again...had to leave and couldn't finish the last entry! This separation of the
lower SS auto and stick cars only lasted a year or two...I'm going to say about 1976
or '77? By 1978, SS/P (and PA) were the lowest classes (I think?)
I wasn't involved in the "pulse" of class racing at that time...and would welcome the
veteran members here who participated those years to correct me or add comments.
Don't have any Nat Dragsters, programs, or other sources of info...I think I tossed all
of them years ago...so I'm going on my feeble memory....
I do recall Vic Holley from the Midwest...being the SS/TA record holder for a bit in
a 220 hp big '66 Chevy...also maybe D2 Ronnie Charnes in a similar SS/TA...
before he went to a Camaro stocker...but that's all I remember?
Not 100% sure...but I think the reason they separated the autos from the sticks
was it was thought that the 3-spd...despite the "gaps" in ratios...was still good for
.1-2 tenths quicker than the autos at that time....and maybe the "auto" racers
"bitched" to NHRA? A 4-spd...if you could get a combo in the lower classes would
be even faster...
Think I saw a '66 Chev big wagon in SS/U running 220hp/4-spd...racing
against '55 Chev 180hp-PG cars for class....
I wonder if the SS/X class lasted a year or 2 later than previously stated...maybe
into '74 or '75? Of course later on, there was a SS/X class for V-6 SS cars....
but we're not talking about that here....
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