TOP 10 Sportsman Sponsors of the 60s
 

With the nice discussion of Marv and A-1 Automatic yesterday I got thinking about who were the major people who helped us get Jr. Stockers and Stockers going in the 60s?Ideas?
A-1 Automatic
Stahl
Lunati
Hooker
Firestone
Vitar
Keystone wheels
Stewart Warner

Others?

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Hilborn

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Hurst

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Hurst (I always heard that George Hurst was a good old man)
Duffys
Eelco

To name a few others.

Jim

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Jahn's Pistons
Perfect Circle Rings

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Dick Moroso and Marvin at M&H

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I've often wondered why M&H doesn't continue to make a competitive stocker or SS tire? I see they are still in the business. What is their specialty in today's market?

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Fuel Dragsters, in fact he was at the Night Fire here in Boise with a new tire they were trying.

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Forgetrue
Fenton
Racing Head Service
Elk's Head Service
Sealed Power

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anybody remember when dick moroso held the moroso party during the u.s.nationals,free beer and fried chicken at some corn field,they where wild,,,,,,,,,70,s and 80,s

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Yes, how could we forget moroso,s wild bash at indy !! band,s on the back of semi-trailer,s, and the Wet-T contest,i think i still got some 8 by 10,s of that party..Oh, and the Lee Eliminater filter girl,s dancing on top of trailers,,,,, let,s lobby to bring the fun back into racing for the younger racers.. dennis

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Hurst

Dont know if this counts but according to my dad the Chrysler parts deal was the best out there.


Herb Jr

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In the mid to late '60's......Champion spark plugs gave out free spark plugs at most events. D&A Speed Sport Oil at Indy, free cases of oil......STP....T--shirts and product by the box full.....Hurst....Shifty Doctor....fix your Hurst shifter or give you the parts. Duffy's....Helped a lot of guys with parts.....Dick Moroso....just a great guy who liked to have fun. Local speedshop's (Van Iderstein's around here) helped a lot of us as well with discounted parts...There were plenty of events with free stuff and free food sponsored by local distributers for co's like CocaCola.....Local tracks and Division races gave free entry to Nat'l Record Holders a lot of times.

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Tony Rossi...Rossi transmissions............and.........The party that Racing HEAD Service used to throw every year for a few of their close friends at Indy..........( chuckles to himself)

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Who in the 60's--70's---80's didn't have an STP decal on their car........they were very big !!!!!!!

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All the way up to the mid eighties, you could go to the midway and get gaskets from Mr. Gasket, oil from Quaker State, Pennzoil,or Valvolene, a jet from Holley, a chip from MSD, get a tranny rebuild from Stanley at TCI, most everything was free and now most don't carry the product with them.

Greg

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Bardhal, Motion, Hubert Platt, Malco? Do these count?

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At the '79 Summernationals in Englishtown, Jim Beatty from ATI rebuilt my A-1 powerglide for zip! I also remember getting free oil from Kendall. NGK was just starting out in the US and they gave out plugs at most events. I got plenty of cans of CRC and Gumout too.

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What about Goodyear Blue Streek slicks?? that's what pappal had on his stockers. he also had cyclone headers.

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Kustom headers..........Sun tachs.........Lakewood.........

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Many really supportive trailers were at all national events for years. Problem seems that most of us got the parts to last for YEARS and didnt rebuy. Especially at the events. Then the warehouses undersold even the trucks at the meets. Wonder if the advertising that parts for ALL customers were for sale at National events could have made the inventory worth bringing again? Would bracket racers attending the events just stop by and pick up their MSD or Holley or Mr. Gasket? Moroso is still very well stocked and seems to sell often. Maybe they have gotten a following that others haven't cultivated.
Richmond Gear was a very active trailer at Nationals.

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When we started building a SS car in 1971 Ernie Johnson of Valvoline and Price Petrie of SW gave my partner and me oil, trans fluid and guages before the car was completed. They had my business for years to come. Also as Herb jr said Mopar was a great help to many. If you had a Mopar and ran well and had a couple connections, Mother Mopar would take care of you.
Problem with trailers at events is legally you have to have a business license in that state, city, county or whatever to do business at some if not all locations. Also if you have a business that sells mail order and you go to a race in, say, South Carolina and sell out of the trailer you now have a retail presence in SC so anyone from SC who buys from your out of state mail order business that year is required to pay sales tax. My part time employer/sponsor used to do a lot of IHRA events and sales but the logistics and paperwork for 4 trailers and several companies represented by them got to be too much. Not to mention sales tax liabilities on future sales.

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SRD Race cars, Schiefer Clutches and ZOOM.