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Originally Posted by Rat Patrol
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Good links! I hadnt seen those.
As far as running A/S=7.00 class in 1966, I think the car would have to run a steel hood to run stock class, and then as a 4bbl car, I get a W/P=8.29 which is not ideal for the class, but way too light for B/S=8.70 class. I'm not sure that combo would have been allowed to run in 1966 at a national NHRA meet, because in 1966, they were all built with glass hoods. Still, that 427-4v Medium Riser made a whole lot more than 410hp so locally would have no trouble winning A/S=7.00 class even with a mid-pack W/P=8.29 like that.
Remember that in 1966 ONLY, A/S cars got to run any cam, any intake, which is why the normally overrated 327/350hp L79 of Grump was so competitive - swap intakes & cams in that L79 & with fenderwell headers, you're in almost 500hp gross territory. The 427 Ford was similar. Its intake was pretty good already, but there was a better one (the sidewinder), and much hotter cams, and the engine would take the revs. So I can see why, IF ALLOWED TO RUN, the steel hood 4bbl Fairlane, unfactored at 410hp, would have had a field day in A/S=7.00 with 1966 rules, making well over 500hp gross.
Yes, I had down 20 W-codes for 1967, looks like 11 is a newer number. Some folks really nit-pick that stuff (11 vs 20) but for me it's just "a few".
I'm not so sure about the glass hoods though. I SEE all the glass hoods in the pictures, but almost everybody added a glass hood to run in SuperStock because once it was NHRA legal, the cold air gave the car a power edge. But its my understanding that all the 67 Fairlanes were factory with steel hoods. That may be what the Ed Terry SNAFU was about - Ford probably wrote a letter (delivered too late) saying "the glass hood was available" but as I've heard it they werent built that way.
In fact, the 1968 NHRA class guide lists ONLY 3 options to run:
* 4bbl, steel hood
* 8bbl, steel hood
* 8bbl, glass hood
No listing for a 4bbl glass hood in RACE YEAR 1968, but I've read guys say they ran a 4bbl glass hood car in Race Year 1967. This could have gone into early 1968 race year, again a story I'm still sorting out.
The last article gets pretty fast & loose with history, still a good story though.
Well, I'm glad a few of us still care!