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In addition, Pro Stock was still a developing from the Super Stock class and was not a big professional class as today. The big Pro's in the early days were T/F and later F/C, which happened to mature also from Super Stock, to AF/X and finally F/C. |
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Very true! And it was all so very new and exciting.
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Also, we ran off of national records, not the too-soft indexes we have now that just about anything will run under. In hot weather you may not find more than three or four cars at a race that could actually break out. We were allowed to run 1/10th under. The faster cars usually won. Now, it's dumbed down to mostly et brackets. Unless you get in a popular class with a good chance for a heads-up, you won't actually do much real racing. Stockers were in magazines, SSDI covered the east coast cars, and Car Craft (John Diana, and later Rick Voglin were racers and the editors) covered the west coast cars. Imagine the indexes lowered one second today, that is about what we had then.
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In other words PROGRESS.It's a different world than then,just as 20 years in the future what we're doing is going to seem like the 2nd golden age.It's like that in every phase of our lives.We dont like it,but that's
the way the world revolves. (I miss those days though)..................................... Ed F.
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We're also in an attention-deficit age... there are many more things for people to spend their money on and/or pay attention to. Also, "back in the day" everything was 'new', and people marveled at everything. The general populace today has expectations born out of the "been there, done that" mentality. That being said, I think that many folks would be newly impressed at today's show if they would go again (or for the first time).
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I think those were the innovators of the day, and Class racing was where it is at.
Now the NMRA, NMCA, ORSCA, etc outlaw street car stuff is where the attention is, and so thats where the innovators are
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I totally agree, the people around our area, ask us all the time to come ORSCA racing. Thats the happening thing in the SOUTH. I do race NMRA and some ORSCA race when it doesnt conflict with NHRA-IHRA. The Stephen Johnson #2162 Horace Johnson #2167 SS/D 427 Ford Fairlane NHRA-IHRA |
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Do they have SS classes?
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Ed,
The '55 Pontiacs were slugs because they only had 287 cubic inches and no multiple carburetion, for 180hp (2bbl) and 200hp (4 bbl). In '56 it got better with 317 cubic inches, and they added a two four-barrel option (205hp.one 2bbl; 227hp, one 4bbl; 285hp 2-4bbls). But, the '57's would RUN.... with 347 cubes, bigger valves, and three two barrels (the ORIGINAL "Tri-Power", which Pontiac copyrighted.) 270hp for one 4bbl, 290hp with the "mild" 3 X 2 setup, and up to 317hp with the 3-2bbl setup with a good (factory) cam. I think that John Zink's car had an optional solid lifter setup, too. They had 2 four barrels one year only (1956), 'til the 421 "Super Duty" motor came out in '62. Hope this helps..
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![]() No, they dont, but they have a 6.0 class and we have ran the SS there a couple of times, but i also have a 10sec N/A strip/street mustang that I run in the 7.0 classes, and then i run NMRA O/C or True Street. Stephen Johnson #2162 Horace Johnson #2167 SS/D 427 Ford Fairlane NHRA-IHRA |
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