The Complete Book of Stock-Bodied Drag Racing cir. 1968
 

Has anyone ever seen this before? I picked it up today at our local library's annual book store. 160 pages and better than typical magazine writer quality. Chapters on "The Stockers", "The Super Stocks", "Factory Experimentals", "Modified Production", "Gas Coupes", "Street Roadsters", "Car Clubs and Fun". Lots of references to old time drag racers and the cars.

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Re: The Complete Book of Stock-Bodied Drag Racing cir. 1968
 

Looks interesting. See anybody you know?

Re: The Complete Book of Stock-Bodied Drag Racing cir. 1968
 

I had a copy of that book when I was in grade 3. I was 8 years old and got it from the Scholastic book club. I'm pretty sure I read it so much it fell apart- remember it well.

Re: The Complete Book of Stock-Bodied Drag Racing cir. 1968
 

I still have my copy.
That was the first Drag Racing book I bought. :)

Re: The Complete Book of Stock-Bodied Drag Racing cir. 1968
 

I still got my copy I bought back in grade school too.

Re: The Complete Book of Stock-Bodied Drag Racing cir. 1968
 

I still have my copy. I wondered if the "Mullinax Brothers" were the same family that owned the Ford dealership in Margate, Florida.

Lew

Re: The Complete Book of Stock-Bodied Drag Racing cir. 1968
 

I have a copy myself. Crap - now I gotta go find it !!!!

Re: The Complete Book of Stock-Bodied Drag Racing cir. 1968
 

I read through the Stock and Super Stock sections last night and was surprised about how much history was there. I'm "kind of" an old guy and was immersed in full-bodied drag cars since I was about 14, but I had never heard or read much about the start of Stock-Super Stock racing in the 50s. The book records that Arnie Beswick, Tim Woods of Stone-Woods-Cook fame, and A.J. Fojt were big winners driving Oldsmobiles in the mid-50s. There is also a good history of the development of the Stock classes from a perspective of over 40 years ago. It's easier to do that when the history is just over your shoulder and all those people are still active rather than having to uncover ancient paths. This book is a treasured find. Maybe this could be a seed for a comprehensive history of the full-bodied area of the sport?

Re: The Complete Book of Stock-Bodied Drag Racing cir. 1968
 

Dam Dwight all that and for 75 cents, if we could only go back !

Re: The Complete Book of Stock-Bodied Drag Racing cir. 1968
 

How many remember Atlas Bucron tires? For Stockers around here in '59/'60 it was those or re-capped slicks. There was a used tire store here that sold them for $15.00 each. Had been been marked "Adj" with what looked like a branding iron, on the whitwall. We just turned the black side out anyway.

Re: The Complete Book of Stock-Bodied Drag Racing cir. 1968
 

My first race car had slicks I bought at J.C. Penny. Do you remember when they had speed parts?

Re: The Complete Book of Stock-Bodied Drag Racing cir. 1968
 

No. either I didn't know they had them, or I forgot. I am old. :-)

Re: The Complete Book of Stock-Bodied Drag Racing cir. 1968
 

I just ordered one (soft cover-used) off Amazon.com for $7.49 total.There's a hard cover book available for,get this,$90 +shipping.
I also ordered the Mickey Thompson book last week.
I guess I have enough reading material this year to soften the blow of staying away this year.:>)

Re: The Complete Book of Stock-Bodied Drag Racing cir. 1968
 

Wow! Don't think I ever paid $90.00 for a book, and we have a library full.

Re: The Complete Book of Stock-Bodied Drag Racing cir. 1968
 

Yep.....I had J.C. Penny 2 grove 7 inch slicks on my 426 street wedge Plymouth in 1965. I drove them on the street and I was "Glued" at the track back before they did anything except sweep the starting line at Capitol and Aquasco in Md. Of course hi stall torque converters had yet to be invented. I bought my M/T headers thru Penny's also.

Re: The Complete Book of Stock-Bodied Drag Racing cir. 1968
 

Super Scavengers?

Re: The Complete Book of Stock-Bodied Drag Racing cir. 1968
 

I remember those!

Re: The Complete Book of Stock-Bodied Drag Racing cir. 1968
 

No.....Just regular M/T tube headers. This was in late1964.

Re: The Complete Book of Stock-Bodied Drag Racing cir. 1968
 

I still have mine but a little worse for wear nice pic of my dad in it