Love me some Vintage Pro Stockers…..

Jake King

 

One of the customers at one place I worked at had a very bad PS Vega he ran on the street.

For his own reasons, he retained the stock Vega front end. We built him the front bars that attached to the cage.

It had a 468 BBC and a worked TH400 and a very narrow Dana rear. One of those cars, I wonder what happened to it.

 

I love these pics, Bob Harvey's Good Times Camaro, 1971 UDRA Pro Stock champion.
Photo by Ray-Mars (likely) via Great Lakes Dragaway page

 

Do you happen to know what track this is? I like Billy’s Cuda better.

 

I'm not sure what track that was. He always had some nice cars, ran at Edgewater and Tri-State alot. Here is a picture of one of his cars at Bluegrass Drag Strip in Nicholsville, KY near Lexington. Also, a couple of his Vette.

 

Those pro stocks of the late 70's look funny when wheelstanding, Wheels stay up in the wheel well- not like the older racers where wheels fell down....

 

Think they ran 90/10 shocks with very light springs back in the day to help with weight transfer....

 

We ran cable limiters on the front. Nothing worse than getting in the air and tires camber, making touch down unpredictable.

 

That explains it, thanks!