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Rich Biebel · 07-03-2010, 05:24 PM

We sold our H/S '68 Chevy II in 1971 I think.. The new owners had to move into Super Stock after maybe one season as Stock, as we all knew it was gone. In about 1972 or so NHRA had a Pure Stock type category.....it was very restrictive and did not even allow what we had in Stockers in years past. Not many guys from the "old" stocker days wanted to run the new pure stock and opted for Super Stock. I think the new pure stock had treaded tires, stock exhaust manifolds with mufflers, and completely stock engine specs including oem pistons.

The racers that bought our Chevy II. .....Changed the cam and intake and put some bigger tires on it I think...it ran SS/J instead of H/S...Went from running low 12's to mid 11's and set the SS/J record I believe. A flat tappet cam and the Intake was probably a Scorpion or Tarantula......That was the best Edelbrock made at the time. I went to my local track one day to watch the car run. The new owner....Rich Decola ( his partner at the time was Paul Dellvecchio who was a crewman for Bob Newberry for many years).....called me up and asked me to come out and see him race the car.....I was very impressed with the cars ET's that day. I think he ran an 11.45. We nver went faster than 12.20 in H/S.....and held the record at 12.25 for quite a while.......

No way I would have run PureStock.........SuperStock.....Yes!

Then NHRA brought back a more familiar version of Stock a few years later but the rules were more restrictive than what we had in the late '60's.
Modern era Stock is way more like Super Stock of the old days.....and the perfromance of todays Stockers is faster then early SS'ers.....

07-03-2010, 05:24 PM	#31
Rich Biebel VIP Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Northern New Jersey suburbs Posts: 2,314 Likes: 25 Liked 544 Times in 213 Posts	Re: What is the correct description of a 60's Jr. stocker. We sold our H/S '68 Chevy II in 1971 I think.. The new owners had to move into Super Stock after maybe one season as Stock, as we all knew it was gone. In about 1972 or so NHRA had a Pure Stock type category.....it was very restrictive and did not even allow what we had in Stockers in years past. Not many guys from the "old" stocker days wanted to run the new pure stock and opted for Super Stock. I think the new pure stock had treaded tires, stock exhaust manifolds with mufflers, and completely stock engine specs including oem pistons. The racers that bought our Chevy II. .....Changed the cam and intake and put some bigger tires on it I think...it ran SS/J instead of H/S...Went from running low 12's to mid 11's and set the SS/J record I believe. A flat tappet cam and the Intake was probably a Scorpion or Tarantula......That was the best Edelbrock made at the time. I went to my local track one day to watch the car run. The new owner....Rich Decola ( his partner at the time was Paul Dellvecchio who was a crewman for Bob Newberry for many years).....called me up and asked me to come out and see him race the car.....I was very impressed with the cars ET's that day. I think he ran an 11.45. We nver went faster than 12.20 in H/S.....and held the record at 12.25 for quite a while....... No way I would have run PureStock.........SuperStock.....Yes! Then NHRA brought back a more familiar version of Stock a few years later but the rules were more restrictive than what we had in the late '60's. Modern era Stock is way more like Super Stock of the old days.....and the perfromance of todays Stockers is faster then early SS'ers..... __________________ Rich Biebel S/C 1479 Stock 147R Last edited by Rich Biebel; 07-03-2010 at 05:43 PM.