Classification Help Requested...

bill dedman · 03-06-2012, 01:56 PM

I was never an employee of NHRA. But, since I was the Stock line tech inspector at Carlisle and Little Rock drag strips (they ran on alternating weekends) Dale Ham deemed me an "Area Tech Advisor" and provided me with the Stock Car Classification Guide and gave me copies of all the official NHRA Tech bulletins of the day, and those came in every week, by mail, and went into a loose-leaf notebook with references to which pages they superceded (pages to be discarded.)

Virtually EVERY car that came in the gate, and wanted to race, was in that Class Guide. There was no "spotty" coverage... Cadillacs, Nash Ramblers, Studebakers, Max Wedge Mopars, and everything in between, were in that Clasification Guide... because NHRA had gone to the manufacturers and GOTTEN that information.

In ten years of classifying cars at four different drag strips, I don't remember EVER seeing an example of a car that wasn't in "The Guide."

Are you guys saying that ALL those manufacturers were pro-active in sending in the specs, without being asked? I don't think that the engineering department at Nash was much interested in what their cars did at the drags in 1965. (Discounting the '57 Rambler Rebel.) But, they were in the "Guide." How did they get there???

No, I am sure that NHRA actively went after that information, so that EVERYONE could race, not just the cars that the manufacturers wanted to see "out there." Just good bidness...

Guess you had to be there...

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bill dedman VIP Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Conway, AR Posts: 1,739 Likes: 0 Liked 6 Times in 4 Posts	Re: Classification Help Requested... I was never an employee of NHRA. But, since I was the Stock line tech inspector at Carlisle and Little Rock drag strips (they ran on alternating weekends) Dale Ham deemed me an "Area Tech Advisor" and provided me with the Stock Car Classification Guide and gave me copies of all the official NHRA Tech bulletins of the day, and those came in every week, by mail, and went into a loose-leaf notebook with references to which pages they superceded (pages to be discarded.) Virtually EVERY car that came in the gate, and wanted to race, was in that Class Guide. There was no "spotty" coverage... Cadillacs, Nash Ramblers, Studebakers, Max Wedge Mopars, and everything in between, were in that Clasification Guide... because NHRA had gone to the manufacturers and GOTTEN that information. In ten years of classifying cars at four different drag strips, I don't remember EVER seeing an example of a car that wasn't in "The Guide." Are you guys saying that ALL those manufacturers were pro-active in sending in the specs, without being asked? I don't think that the engineering department at Nash was much interested in what their cars did at the drags in 1965. (Discounting the '57 Rambler Rebel.) But, they were in the "Guide." How did they get there??? No, I am sure that NHRA actively went after that information, so that EVERYONE could race, not just the cars that the manufacturers wanted to see "out there." Just good bidness... Guess you had to be there... __________________ Bill Last edited by bill dedman; 03-06-2012 at 02:02 PM.