[Rory McNeil]

Heres an idea, how about leaving Stock alone for a few years, instead of constantly allowing new aftermarket parts that just drive up costs. I just looked at the indexs in National Dragster, I see 51 classes in Stock, 85 classes in S/S, and a whopping 96 classes in Comp. Here in Div.6 at least Stock always has considerably more entrys than S/S, and WAAAY more than Comp, yet there always seems to be people clamoring to reduce the number of classes in Stock, even though Comp has almost twice as many classes, and normally draws less than 1/2 the number of cars at a race! By the way, both S/S as well as Comp have seperate classes for sticks vs auto`s, so why shouldn`t Stock? I started building my Stocker about 8 years ago, and since then all the new accepted stuff is getting silly. Aluminum AFTERMARKET Edelbrock heads and carbs, wheelie bars, "race only" lightweight disc brakes front and rear, $800. lifters, not to mention all the stuff that is allowed that NEVER was produced on so called "factory" cars; I mean a Pinto steering rack on a late model Firebird!! Give me a break!! I know things never seem to go back once changes are implemented, but I wish things were more like they were about 15 years ago.