Case in point: A.H. Adkins has a SS/C '69 AMX and lives in West Virginia, races both NHRA & IHRA. IHRA came out with a "Top SS" program combining A-B-C classes into a common SS/B weight. Adkins liked the idea, rebuilt his chassis to be better and lighter and now competes in the IHRA class and also NHRA SS/B. I see from the Nitro Joe stats he's the second slowest NHRA SS/B car. Damned if he doesn't love it! And he's moving forward with more improvements. Says he hasn't been challenged to this degree in years.
SStock1373 says:
Originally Posted by GUMP
I think that the first step should be to combine sticks and autos.
If this happened their wouldn't be one stick car at the racetrack.
Oh I don't know if that's true. Myself, I would love to race against all the SS/HA cars (and there's some seriously fast cars in that class). As most of us probably had a street race or two in our life before sanctioned drag racing, I can't remember any street racer, myself included, who ran from a race over the opponents transmission!
What really irks me is the difference in indexes between the stick and auto classes!
Worst yet a conversation between an official and a stick racer; the official refused to believe there were index differences between them!
