Project - NHRA Stock and S/S results 61-68

[Rat Patrol]

Originally Posted by oldskool

"...In the Pontiac stocker thread, you quote Boyce’s book ( I won’t judge��) as saying this car was totalled in a wreck after coming runner up at Indy in class...it couldn't possibly have run in SS/S in 62 competitively."

Just went back & looked in the book. It's on page 14. Says Stan Antlocer drove it, & was RU in "Super Stock", NOT SS/S.

Can't verify anything, EXCEPT that this is what is in the Jr. Stock book, on page 14.

The SS book says that Bob Harrop was driving the '61 Pontiac that was S/S RU @ Indy '62. I wasn't there. Don't know who was RU.

To save a lot of ‘to and fro’.....check the results I have fot 62...then give me your educated opinion on where Antlocer fits.

I am genuinely interested because r/up info is so hard to source. 👍

https://skunkwerkssuperstock.wordpre...s-experiments/

[oldskool]

Originally Posted by Rat Patrol

To save a lot of ‘to and fro’.....check the results I have fot 62...then give me your educated opinion on where Antlocer fits.

I am genuinely interested because r/up info is so hard to source. ��

https://skunkwerkssuperstock.wordpre...s-experiments/

One thing I noticed in the Jr. Stock book is that at the end of the caption are the words (Photo Courtesy Stan Antlocer)

SO, does that mean that the author of the book was in contact with Stan, & got the pic & info he published directly from Stan ???

If this is the case, & Stan knew that the info he provided might be published in a book & credited to him, would he intentionally provided false info, which he knew could be proven false ???

OR, did the book's author get the facts wrong, NOT publishing exactly what Stan provided to him ???

I don't know the answer to these questions. I don't know who won the race or who the RU was or what car either driver was driving.

Hey, I live in Louisiana & have never even been close to Indy, much less attended a race there. I just read what others have written about races & repost some of it on a few car forums. If the results I read were posted wrong, then the results I repost will also be wrong.

Have run across quite a bit of conflicting info about race results from 50 years or more ago, as well as races from the modern era.

I've posted that Pontiacs won races, when it turned out that the driver who won the race HAD driven Pontiacs at some previous races, BUT was NOT driving a Pontiac at the particular race I was reporting on. Sometimes only the names are posted, with no mention of what car was being driven.

After scanning down thru your 1962 section, I noticed that you said Hayden Proffitt won Top Stock at Indy, in a 421 Pontiac.

"...These 421 cui motors ran 11:1, dual quad carburretors and were rated to 405. The lightweight panels were available to the approved teams and raced in SS/S. Hayden Proffitt proved the cars worth by winning Top Stock at the US Nationals..."

According to other info posted, he actually won the SS/S class @ the '62 Winter nats, with that #670 Pontiac. He did win Top Stock @ Indy that year, but he was driving the #612 409 powered Chevy. At least, that's what I can gather from all the results I've seen.

This article lists Arlen Vanke a S/S winner. But then, as a caption to a pic, says Bill Sasse won S/S. Have a pic of a car with "Bill Sasse" on the door & "Driver Arlen Vanke" on the roof, over the door. So, IF this was the winning car, who was driving at the '62 Indy Nats ?

http://wildaboutcarsonline.com/membe...onals_1-20.pdf

[oldskool]

I contacted the Jr. Stock book author & ask him about what Stan told him.

He sent me a copy. Stan said the car was RU in Super Stock at the "Indianapolis Summer Nationals in 1962".

So, was that the same race as the NHRA Nationals of '62 ? Or was it some special race they held earlier in the Summer ?

Never heard of a Summer Nationals race being held @ Indy. Maybe Stan just used the word Summer because the race started in Aug ?

I don't have any answers & don't know who was driving the S/S winning or RU car @ Indy '62.