Super Stock GT

[Logus]

Originally Posted by FireSail

That's what it says, but I've never seen a two door station wagon.

Dale

A few, plus the Chevelles, etc.
Not counting the other mfgs.
Not old enough to remember Paul Blevins?

[Myron Piatek]

Originally Posted by FireSail

That's what it says, but I've never seen a two door station wagon.

Dale

Wasn't there limited run of Chevy Nova 2 door station wagons in the mid-'60's? I believe one was run in SS/KA years ago. Jim Wahl would know who I'm talking about.

[FireSale]

Originally Posted by Logus

A few, plus the Chevelles, etc.
Not counting the other mfgs.
Not old enough to remember Paul Blevins?

I'm 66. All the wagons I remember hauled bunches of kids. They had 4 doors.

Dale

[Rory McNeil]

Originally Posted by FireSail

I'm 66. All the wagons I remember hauled bunches of kids. They had 4 doors.

Dale

Actually 2 door station wagons were quite common in the 50s, and into the early 60s. In your 66 years you have never seen a 55-57 Chevy Nomad? They were all 2 door wagons. Although I believe all the Chevy 11/Nova wagons were 4 doors, Ford made Falcon wagons as either 2 or 4 door versions thru 64 or 65, and 2 door Chevelle wagons were made in 64 and 65. In fact Pat Brooks from the Seattle WA area here in Div. 6 ran a 64 Chevelle 2 door wagon in M& N/SA for several years.(He owns 2 of them). When I was a kid, my dad drove a 58 Ford 2 door Ranch Wagon, instead of having roll down windows where the rear doors would be on a 4 door version, the windows slide back. Not sure what Chevy and Pontiac did on their 2 door wagon windows.

[Alan Nyhus]

Originally Posted by Myron Piatek

Wasn't there limited run of Chevy Nova 2 door station wagons in the mid-'60's? I believe one was run in SS/KA years ago.

Yes, there were...mostly '63-'65's. Our local natural gas company had several of them around town. I tried over the years to track a complete one down. Closest I came was the shell in a small salvage yard 40 miles west of here........ -Al

[ALMACK]

Originally Posted by Jim Caughlin

Bear in mind that when GT was introduced, the current model year car engines were for the most part not viable in SS. Because of that, the cars that were competing were getting older and older and therefore, Detroit's interest in Stock & SS was getting even further deminished. GT was an NHRA effort to make current model year cars more viable. With that in mind, they were looking for something more 'swoopy' so they limited it to 2 doors. As time progressed, the 1985 model year rule didn't change so the idea that GT was limited to relatively current model year wasn't really a factor and inevitably done away with completely. The other interesting limit was that GT was and is V8 only. I'd very much like to build a 4 cylinder GT car but it's not legal. Same issue with non 2 doors as is being questioned, just the way the rules were written at the time.

I agree on the 4 cyl.
While I can run my car in SS/PA, it would be nice to be able to put that same turbo 2.3 in a lighter based body.

It would be nice if NHRA changed the GT rule to:
"Any year eligible SS engine allowed in any year eligible SS body" ( within the same corporate make of course)

The 14.0 lbs. per fact. h.p would limit certain combos tho.

[Andrew Hill]

Speaking of station wagons, has anyone else thought about how cool it would be to build a Ford Flex, tubbed, big tires, 4-link, wheelie bars, sitting nice and low, 500hp SS only CJ engine (big blower) to run GT/AA or GT/BA. Well over 1000hp and 4170 lb in A or 4420 in B. Little bit of a different kind of FWD conversion.

[FireSale]

Originally Posted by Andrew Hill

Speaking of station wagons, has anyone else thought about how cool it would be to build a Ford Flex, tubbed, big tires, 4-link, wheelie bars, sitting nice and low, 500hp SS only CJ engine (big blower) to run GT/AA or GT/BA. Well over 1000hp and 4170 lb in A or 4420 in B. Little bit of a different kind of FWD conversion.

Talk about a bad aero package...

Dale

[FED 387]

and itsa effen ugly car to boot!!!

[Ed Wright]

^^^^^^ What he said! LOL