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The term Junior Stock originated in the early '60s, when the NHRA took the fastest cars in Stock Eliminator--Super/Stock, AA/Stock, A/Stock Automatic, and so on--and packaged them in a separate category it called Top Stock Eliminator. As the muscle car era arose, this category was seen as a bankable spectator attraction. Meanwhile, everything from B/Stock down went into a separate eliminator, to run while everyone headed to the concession stands. At various times, the NHRA called this lower-classed eliminator Junior Stock or simply Stock Eliminator, but the Junior Stock label just sort of stuck, and Junior Stock racers wore it as a badge of honor, especially the racers from the NHRA's Division 1 in the Northeast, the hotbed of Junior Stock racing in the '60s.
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