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Im looking at the old NHRA Drag News results from 1958-59. The Olds 303 ran extra good (ya think?) Some of them dont fit their class - even with...
See my post #26 above, NHRA lists the shipping weight at 3341 lb The handwriting on the AMA sheet in Post #27 looks like that car weighed 3400...
This one didnt sell June 2023 BAT, high bid $298000. Mainly tho look at the pics, story, AMA specs in there, 3345 shipping weight & hand written...
Agreed, we see a car in 1964, S/S on it, but maybe it was an AHRA track or maybe a local track that allowed stuff not formally allowed by NHRA....
Nice thanks! Looks like an I/S 57 Chev behind it which would be a 283/220 wagon in 1964 class. And a 64 plymouth back there too? Newest car I see,...
All I found digging around today was NHRA Minimum Production to run in Stock or S/S 100 for 1962 50 for 1963, but raised to 100 sometime during...
I see a couple pics in here with S/S on the car. I'm trying to figure when, circa 1963-71, these cars were NHRA Legal in Stock or SuperStock. I...
I've been compiling all the national events, class winners, records from 1959-1971. The 409/380-4v was dominant in the B/S=9.50 class during...
Ok found it. Looks like Beckert switched over to a 150 2d sedan with a 265/180hp to prepare for the 1970 ban of the 265/195hp Duntov combo.
I have a question on Beckert's combo. For 1969, P/S=17.00 so 3338/195=17.12 But as of race year 1970, the 265/195 Duntov was banned x-Vette. So,...
Just studying this page hunting for clues about car, model, engine. Was the "T" only for winners or the winners and runner-up cars that went on to...
From this discussion & others I'm sort of concluding that the big cars were sometimes factored later than the X,F,A body cars, or sometimes not at...
Thats the problem - when analyzing any of these old pictures, it depends on what Race Year the picture is from. I do know that the 396/325-L35,...
This is Post 6713 pg224 quoting Colesy who said "I believe this was the 1969 Cars Magazine meet at Cecil County. Don Potter's 65 Chevy "Shiftless"...
Nice pic! I had your car down already as winning O/SA=15.00 class 71 Summernationals, no ET or MPH though, that's the results sheet I cant find...
I'm hunting for the 1971 NHRA Summernationals Englishtown NJ results sheet. Can't find it anywhere so having to put together scraps of info. I...
That was a pretty hot combo for a long time. 60 Pontiac 389/363hp-6v SuperDuty, held the W/P=10.60 class record as good as 13.28 at 106.5mph in...
For sure, I always crunch out the Wt/HP to make sure which car/engine jives with the class. For example here's records from Apr 1965: You can see...
This is a good article on the 54 Super Jet with the twin-carb 114hp 202cid. Picture underhood. Hard to see how a big long 308cid would ever fit....
All the sheets I've collected the 308 Jet shows up in 1964-66 but that's all. Bellovich car is there in 64 as a stick in W/P=17.00 class, then in...
Well mainly I used that flathead story about "letting in" the new cars (46-48 Fords) as a hope that HAMB would start letting Junior Stock go up...
Just found this! At W/P=27.30 this combo was perfect for the new U/S=27.00 class that came out in 1968 (V/S=27.00 in1969, same class). Too light...
I found this post & tought I'd get a picture of the D/SA=11.30 class McClelland car (67 Chev). Somehow I concluded it was a 67 Biscayne 2ds,...
[ATTACH] WOW great pictures! For sure, a car with that much history, you HAD to revive it. I cant quite match that legacy, but we got our Model A...
Here is a 365/335hp-6v build from a few years back. Just a little bigger cam than stock but dyno Torque 428 at 3700, HP 328 at 4600. I wondered...
Awesome thread. I just got Brooklands 59-66 Cadillac (Road Tests) so was looking for 390 and 429 data, head flows, etc. Hard to find! This is the...
Right on! I was too young, missed the 1960s, but have studied enough of the era to put some numbers out there & get some of these guys talking....
Chuck, Logical assumption, the aluminum, scoop, and 425hp all going together. The T-M car ran up thru 1967 in W/P=8.70 class, steel-flat hood,...
I had not heard this part of the A/SA=8.70 64 Ford Gal story before, but suspected as much per the dealer ad attached. Indeed, 3750/425=8.82,...
Chuck are you sure about the Tritak wagon being a 426/425hp? From the NHRA file I'm seeing 3548/415=8.55 which fits the D/SA=8.50 class for 1970....
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