[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by bill dedman

Terry,

If there were 57 Z-11's built by Chevrolet for the 1963 model year, why were they never legal for Super Stock (they weren't, back then.)

It's been 46 years ago, and I frankly can't remember, so maybe the rule was for 100 cars built to be legal for S/S... but there weren't 100 '68 Hemi A body Barracudas built, and I don' think the Darts would fall under the same "umbrella," so that probably waan't the case.

Maybe you'd remember, or Chuck, or Tony Janes... it just escape me. Sorry for the hijack, but I've always wondered why those Z-11's were forced to run F/X.

Bill....GM may have built all 57 by the time the winter Nationals was run but not enough were sold and in racers hands by then so they ran the ones that showed up with slicks in A/FX. The ones that teched in with 7 inch caslers were thrown into a made up class called L/P (Limited Production). Why they did that is anyones guess??? After the winter Nationals they all ran A/FX and the L/P class designation disapeared. Its been a long time (CRS setting in) but the reason is for them not running S/S was NHRA had a requirement of 100 cars min. to be built back then. The T-Bolts of 1964 were about 100 units and there were a couple of thousand Max Wedge cars built over the 3 model year time frame and thats why they could run S/S. You could get the Alum. front ends over the counter for the Mopars after Mopar said they had sold enough cars with the lite wt. package.