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No Chris,,,, that honor goes to Bobby DeArmond,, '69 427 Camaro at Mission Raceway B.C. in May of 2001. That run is one of the highlights in the DVD "Four Days In May" that many on here have in their collections.
Danny Durham

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Does this make all of my old AMC race parts worth a bunch of $$$$$

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Interesting the AMC attacks have been directed exclusively to Jeff Lee.
The AMC racers are a very small community of racers when compared to the Big 3 racers.

I will bet Jeff was not the only AMC racer that made the request to NHRA for the inclusion of the Group 19 parts. Jeff races only in NHRA, nevertheless, they were approved years ago for use in IHRA.

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Jeff just makes himself the easy target :D :p

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Yeah only 11 years behind... that's not bad:rolleyes:

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[QUOTE=SSDiv6;345517]Like Dwydendorf commented; the rules seems to have preference on certain car makes and are not applied consistently across the board.


We can all point to how many things NHRA has allowed throughout the years. Another example is when they allowed automatic transmissions in the 1967 Galaxie 427 with two 4BBL's; they were a stick car only from the factory. When I asked NHRA about it, they said since an automatic trans was available in the Galaxie model, they allowed it although it was not available with the engine

So is this the standard on all applications or do you need to get each combo approved using this rule???

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Yes...well aware. Pretty sure that was some sarcasim

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Sorry Charlie, but that statement is not correct. My car (as many other Stockers) had over 140,000 miles before I turned it into a race car. The Cobra Jets, Drag Paks and new COPOS were never available to the general motoring public and certainly not legal to drive on public roads.

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Plus the fact that the new cars that ARE available to the general motoring public and ARE legal to drive on public roads.........are NOT legal to be raced in Stock class.

Now explain that one to somebody who decides to take their newer car off the street and set it up for Stock Eliminator. THEY WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO DO THAT !!!!!!!

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Any of the new cars can be put into the guide per request. However it would be rough for them to be competitive since the SAE rating of the new cars is MUCH more strict and legitimate to rating them actual power output. The new cars can't be just rated a bogus number for insurance reasons like the 50-60s cars. Plus the manufacturing process, technology and tolerance of the new engines make them extremely efficient as produced and don't benefit as much it once did from simply blueprinting and building each peice to nominal tolerances.

That being said people with the new cars can also build clones. Some simple items and boom you now can compete as a CJ as they use a lot of part that come straight from the road going modular engine rides. Heads, block, crank, lifters, roller finger followers, intakes, Superchargers, ECM etc.

There is nothing stock about different forms of "stock" racing anymore and haven't been for a long time. How many cars out racing are exactly how the rolled off the factory assembly line? Some of the new cars are but even they don't remain that way for long either.