[Robert Swartz]

Run off the record and a .10 cushion. Those were the days. You could still run a street car in stock. Saw it still happen until about 1976 or so. That picture in my photo gallery of me by my old Pinto, X/S. Won that trophy (and still have it by the way), had to run at least 3 rounds that day at Indianapolis Raceway Park. In those days, just winning class could be a war.

The purpose built stockers dominated the eliminator. At the end of the day, it was sure fun to roll out in your daily driver and brag to your buddies at the drive in that evening.

Something else that occurred around here. At the local tracks, mine were Brown County and Speed's in Hope, Indiana. Often they couldn't get enough cars to run seperate eliminators, ie, Stock, S/S, MP. They'd lump them all into a "M"oney class and run them off their respective records. That made for some interesting racing, especially if you paired a low class stocker against a high class MP car.

Cups or Bucks, ours were simpler, Money or Trophy. The purpose built cars ran the money class. Trophy was for the less well prepared cars and the street cars.