"Stockest" looking Stockers!
 

You can't buy a ticket to a car show and see stuff as clean and perfect as this!

http://classracer.com/magazine/?p=7128

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Cool idea for a thread. I've always liked stock-looking Stock and Super Stock cars. The lack of contingency decals, trick paint and lettering give a car a non-traditional drag car look that, with rare exception, works. Three more guys that come to mind that have show-quality, uncluttered cars are Brian Broaddus, Randall Klein and Ron Taylor. Very nice pieces, all.

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We were going to début this one at our D4 open TODAY but we "ain't got no" open!!!! Elwood

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Casey Miles 1969 302 Camaro. Still in show room condition F/S

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I love the "just drove in from the showroom" look.

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x100





Bret Velde
2003 SS/??

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Perfect calendar cars!

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Great idea and I couldn't agree more. Stockers are "way cool" as Bob Frey stated.

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Ten very cool cars...

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Personally I would take out any car with wheelie bars and race seats that just takes the stock look right out.


Other wise some great looking cars.

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Beautiful cars each and every one, but let play the grinch here.
Fans think they are looking at a show car instead of a race car.
If we are going to sell Stock Eliminator, race cars need to look
like race cars. Check this thread of 479 pages.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...-stock.201085/
Just my humble opinion.
Pete

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Pete, I really don't think that there is a problem with "selling" Stock Eliminator to the Fans. I don't believe that there is one single Stock Eliminator racer out there that can't tell stories of the Fans who's Father/ Teacher/ Great Aunt Suzy had a car just like his. Stock Eliminators strength is in the Fans ability to relate to our Racecars. Yeah, even COPOs and CJs.
We need to figure out how to "sell" Stock Eliminator to the NHRA's B.O.D..

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When someone figures it out, please put it in the thread.
Thank you, Mike

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Going to have to agree with Pete here.
With all due respect to my friend Denny Ford here, his beautiful 62 doesn't look much like a race car to me...Not like this one:

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Mark, you just need to see a good wheels-up video with the sound cranked way up.

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I'm sure you're right..It's just when I see 62 409 Chevies, I think of Jenkins, Pizzi, K&G Speed Associates ,etc. ;-)

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I believe that you will find that when alot of us grew up, many of these cars roamed the streets. So that seeing a lettered up race car would catch our attension. Now for the younger generation seeing a clean looking muscle car at the track that they would rarely see on the street is a treat. Moreso than one covered in decals.

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I partnered on this with Mike Smith for a few years in the 90's. It was just finished in this shot. We did "sticker it up". I liked it better plain.

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Real stock looking

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Yeah sure, Bobby...with those Div. 1 Junior Stock roof stripes ;-)

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The car is street legal, tagged and insured with a full exhaust like OEM.

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That's a sharp looking car Casey. I'd be worried about racing it. I have a 69 Z28 RS with 21000 original miles and would love to take it to the track. But would have to make too many changes to it.

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Same as it looked when it was new show room condition, do you still use the magnetic decals?

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Only you would see that.....lmao

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That's because you're old.........

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Lol isn’t that pot and kettle

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Such lists are always subjective. It would be great to see a Top 25 or Top 100. I personally would like to see a wider variety of makes. I think the main requirement in this example list is that there are no or few decals. I applaud the effort and the great selection. What about Rocket Shipp's car?

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Probably safer to race it than taking it for a Sunday cruise. Beautiful car Casey

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I think having the back seat in the car, all NOS parts and the factory remote control side view mirror took me over the edge in this group of awesome cars. All kidding aside, I was humbled to be included here. When I built this car, I basically brought it back from the dead. A good friend of mine bought it brand new at A.D. Anderson Chevrolet in Baltimore. It is one of the 602 factory built Z28s and it's restored back the way it was delivered when it was new. I have all of the original paperwork for the car too. Ray Fairall, the original owner and I used to go head to head back in the early 1970s at Capitol Raceway.

I fell in love with Stock Eliminator back when these cars were new. Just the thought of owning one was no more than a dream when I was in high school. These were factory built race cars which enthusiasts all over the country bought new and used to compete in what is my favorite class, Stock Eliminator. Having the glass ceiling we have to work with makes it very competitive and that's what I loved about the class.

I've always been a stickler for stock appearing cars and this is also how I built my business, Camaro Hi-Performance restoring customer cars back to their original new condition.

The icing on the cake is all the great people in this sport. I look forward to every event. It's just not about winning, it's just about being there and being a apart of the sport that I loved since I was a kid.

Thanks everyone!

Jerry MacNeish, #1710, D/Stock

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Jerry , thanks for the history and photo. Very cool..

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Here are a couple of our stock looking stockers. The Mustang is a car that was campaigned for years by Wayne Larsen. It's an original 71 Boss 351 car with the numbers matching block still in it. We haven't run it in a number of years now. The other is my Nova 72 350 car. Always a fan of clean uncluttered original looking stock and super stock cars.

Rick

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As a side note, I'm happy to report that thanks to Wayne Totaro, he put me in touch with Jack Arnew. Anyone who's been in racing for a while know that his name is legendary in the sport. He did most of the front end suspension set ups on all of the killer cars during the late '60s and way into the 1970s. His work was second to none and Jack has just finished up the front end set up on my car. At 79 years young, he looks 65 and has that Dick Clark thing going on. Jack still enjoys doing this type of work part time. Thank you Jack Arnew!

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Rick's post reminded me of this.
The Mustang I had used the original block all the time I had it. We had to sleeve the # 3 cylinder twice, but it still went with the car when I sold it. The head was original for a while until I torched it pretty good. I found a replacement on the boneyard hot line and Tibor did it for me. He was pretty tired of 2300 Fffffords by the time I was through.
Anyway, the pic is at the very first race, before I could get to the decal trailer.
This one's for Billy.
Ol' Yac


https://i.postimg.cc/Kjdrb2jc/1980.jpg

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No doubt.....Especially in Fla. during the winter with all the out of state snow birds in town and the old farts still driving at 90 plus years old !

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Some days, I wish I hadn't polluted mine with a bunch of stickers....

https://i.imgur.com/HsIAgYs.jpg

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I am kind of fond of the Stock look of my Stocker 4 cylinder T-Bird ( 11.83 best)

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...d0&oe=5C6DB33F

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...cd&oe=5C6C106C

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And also the "Stockish" look of my 4 cylinder Super Stocker complete with street legal DOT drag radials :)

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...66&oe=5C738C43

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I have the urge at times to put some stripes on the roof,or a clever name like the ol Jr Stockers had but I think I will just leave her plain. Woops can someone fix my picture?

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This is mine...have always said I may put an OE white ghost stripe down the side but haven't yet

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Rick, that's a nice looking car
MJ