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Old 03-18-2009, 09:40 AM   #11
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If one looks closely it appears that the firewall has been cut up giving me the impression it once had a big block in it.
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Old 03-18-2009, 10:03 AM   #12
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If one looks closely it appears that the firewall has been cut up giving me the impression it once had a big block in it.
Either that or a tunnel ram on the small block. Tunnel ram manifolds were pretty common on Super Stock versions of that combination after Junior Stock was pushed into Super Stock.

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Old 03-20-2009, 10:54 PM   #13
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for some good old school junior stock photos try this link... start going back through the pages i think it gets pretty good
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=201085
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Old 03-23-2009, 10:27 AM   #14
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Either that or a tunnel ram on the small block. Tunnel ram manifolds were pretty common on Super Stock versions of that combination after Junior Stock was pushed into Super Stock.

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When we had to move to Super Stock, I got an Edelbrock tunnel ram, and the "mini-plenum: Edelbrock sent to Carroll Caudle for testing. It was the only thing I knew of that would fit under the hood. Carroll was fast enough at that time he wasn't interested in changing his manifold top. I think he had filled his old one with resin and was happy with it like that. One Div 4 pro Stock racer i won't name called Edelbrock raising heck wanting to know why "that kid with a Super Stock '56 Chevy had the manifold top he wanted but was told they weren't available yet?" Edelbrock called Carroll, asking if that was his plenum.
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Ed....the pictures of your old car on that site looked GREAT. I do believe that was the best time in drag racings history.
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Old 03-23-2009, 02:51 PM   #16
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Ed....the pictures of your old car on that site looked GREAT. I do believe that was the best time in drag racings history.

That's the only race car I ever had that made money. Purses were about what they are now, but parts, fuel, hotels, entrys, etc, was all much cheaper then.
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That's the only race car I ever had that made money. Purses were about what they are now, but parts, fuel, hotels, entrys, etc, was all much cheaper then.
Sad isnt it ! The last NHRA National event I entered was the Gatornationals in 78 and it was $40 (Forty) for a 68 Camaro SS/IA. The engine cost me right at $6000 total from the Lingenfelter carb to one of his "Bread Box" oil pans. Ran 10.90's at that time. The Bowling Green Sports Nationals was the same entry fee.
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Used to be no break-out in the finals at national events, but you set a new record if you ran under. If you had to kill your record (not bogus-soft indexes) in the final, you won enough money to build another car. You could have a nice car for $10,000. None of mine cost near that. Good ol' Bob Rice emailed me a National Dragster record page he had scanned from the last year of Stock Eliminator (everybody called it Jr Stock), before we had to move to Super Stock. I don't know where Bob find the things he does. I wish I had kept things like that. Last time Jeanie looked, she could not find any of my national record certificates. Carroll Caudle used to "file" his on one of those spikes on his wife's desk, He had quite a stack of them with holes poked in the middle. I always thought to my self "I won't mutilate mine like that", now we can't even find them. About all the proof I have now of ever setting one is the record page Bob scanned and emailed to me. Had it at 13.10 when they killed off Stock. The Ronca Brothers (from Div 1 I believe) had the MPH record a long time. I never could run the MPH they did. Sonny Bryant set the ET record in that (Stock) class a couple of times before he built his Pro Stocker. Sonny was a very good racer. Great guy too. I set it twice after moving to SS, second time Jimmie Bridges or one of his cohorts set it lower the same weekend with a 220 HP Malibu. I tore it down for nothing.

I've never forgiven those guys for that.
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Old 03-23-2009, 04:55 PM   #19
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Sad isnt it ! The last NHRA National event I entered was the Gatornationals in 78 and it was $40 (Forty) for a 68 Camaro SS/IA. The engine cost me right at $6000 total from the Lingenfelter carb to one of his "Bread Box" oil pans. Ran 10.90's at that time. The Bowling Green Sports Nationals was the same entry fee.
$6,000.00 in 1978 is equal to $19,887.00 in 2008.
$40.00 in 1978 is equal to $132.58 in 2008.


NHRA isn't looking too good in this one...

That's according to the online cost-of-living calculator I use; dunno how accurate it is......


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Old 03-23-2009, 04:56 PM   #20
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Car must have sold. The auction has been pulled.
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