So you wanna build a stocker!?!?

[Dan Fahey]

Originally Posted by SStockDart

There is a place for pure stockers and/or foreign cars to race.....it is called bracket racing on Friday nights. Pure Stock was tried by NHRA in the early 70's and a huge failure. Not many fans interested in 19 second pure stockers, you see faster street rods on the street.

And Dan, (Dan Quayle notice the correctly spelled word POTATO) If you are old enough to remember, Dan Qualye spelled potato correctly and then when the teacher raised a "cue card" with it spelled Potatoe.......In stead of picking on Quale, why not the teacher of our children?

Dan Quayle's 'Potatoe' Incident – 1992
A minor slip-up by Vice President Dan Quayle hatched a frenzy and a long-running joke. Quayle led a spelling bee for sixth-grade students while visiting an elementary school in New Jersey in 1992. Working from an inaccurate flash card prepared by a teacher, he corrected William Figueroa, 12, when the child spelled "potato" on the blackboard – making the boy add an unnecessary "e" at the word's end.

Not to hijack the post...
Sonny !!
I ran Pure Stock in the early 70's against the Tex Millers, Eddie/Leon Maranians, Kenny Koonce, Tommy Howe's, Jim Bishop, Dvorak's (Teachers Pet), Warrens, WA Lees, Lee Sherman, Huckleberrys' and many others. It was very successful and lots of competitors running the class. Then it started morphing like every racing class in the world.

AND I am going to push Pure Stock...because it is HERE and They Will Come !

BTW..as a person who competed in Spelling Bees, Quayle should have caught the mistake on the card by asking questions !!

BACK to unhijacking the Post..
Nick:
You have a wonderful project. The 1972 Nova is a great platform with huge set of combinations from 1968 to 1972 with simple trim changes. Poke around and there are plenty of proven parts to make a safe race car.

The body shared a lot of the Camaro components. One failing was the uni-bodies could twisted out of spec with too much power or a good bump in the wrong spot. Remember a street racer friend put in a 427 in his 69 Camaro and soon after the doors would not shut properly. Convertibles were even worse.

D

[Joe Toller]

Not to be a smartass, but last I checked, the lowest index in Pure Stock is 14.55, faster than V/SA. And I personally like slower cars, plus it's what I can afford.

Just because a guy cannot or chooses not to spend 10k+ on a car, doesn't mean he shouldn't have a chance to participate. The future racers have to start somewhere, and it's a logical step up from brackets. We wouldn't tell someone jump right in to a SS car or full-tilt stocker, but if you take the lower classes away, where the hell do they start???

[cicero819]

Nick didn't associate you with your Dad, How about a Dart 60's to late 70's that should help your Dad feel some Mopar love from his son. I've seen some cool Valiants also with slant six and V8 and Duster etc,etc. Good luck Claude Ruel

[Bob Pagano]

Dan, (Dvorak's (Teachers Pet) Dan Dvorak did not own the Teachers Pet cars Jerry Stein dose. Pictures in my album.

[Dan Fahey]

Originally Posted by Bob Pagano

Dan, (Dvorak's (Teachers Pet) Dan Dvorak did not own the Teachers Pet cars Jerry Stein dose. Pictures in my album.

Jerry Stein...you are right..!!
Mixed them up and thought Dvorak did, though saw his car at Moroso 1988

However do remember the famous Stock Finals between Jerry Stein an Kenny Koonce at Englishtown...forget the year..1977/1978???
Both real A/SA Cars...and todays Pure Stock cam rules !

Kenny lost a tight one .
He was up set because Jerry set up cross ways on the starting line.

Been a while.

D

[Nick Reiter III]

hey guys, thanks for the input claude, me and my dad will never see eye to eye with this stuff. he booted me when i was 18 for other reasons but part of me feels it was cause i raced gms its cool though, made me a better man. love the mopars, fords, gms. hey daniel, i remember a time when stein ran the 63 2 door car, and a cool old dude named pat ran the wagon, when it was all in white. good times!

[Nick Reiter III]

yo dan, we met dvorak back in the early 90s, at the gators, cool dude, nice shop, alot of max wedge stuff! most of you guys may have heard this tale, but if you wanna hear it again, let me know, ill tell it ! good stuff