[X-TECH MAN]

Those were the good days of stocker racing. I knew of a few who made a living back in 1969 racing stock and if you were good AND lucky you made a profit. One guy was laid off from his job and ran at Aquasco in Md. He won almost every weekend that summer with a box top 428 Fairlane that ran H/SA (same class as the Pratt&Burkett 62 Dodge wagon) and managed to keep the payments up on his house and still eat. Maybe it was because he HAD to win that helped him. Yes it was legal as I helped him tear it down once after a protest. Some tracks really looked at your stuff back then. He won the NASCAR Winternationals in a 66 Mustang 271 HP automatic car in Daytona Florida when that race was held there. Maybe some old racers from the D.C. area might remember him....Gene Collins. He has since passed away a few years ago. He was the one who talked me into taking my Corvette off the street and race it...........Gezzzzz, maybe its his fault I love the old stockers so much?