[joe huestis]

I began racing in ‘72 with my ‘57 Chevy 4 dr. wagon which was my first car. A friend of mine had a ‘57 sedan delivery less m&t I bought for $75. (the old “Hatch’s All American”)out of Peekskill, N.Y. Found I could only run it as a SS and sold it never doing anything with that car. The era of the Junior Stockers killed off. Purchased my ‘69 Camaro in ‘73 for $1300., converted it to the “ new stock eliminator” complete with those funky treaded M&H “slicks” which were now legal to run. As I recall those with treads were allowed up to 10 1/2 in width. 1960 and newer cars were only allowed and originally as each year passed, NHRA was going to drop a year so the following year only 1961 models and so on. That was squashed pretty quickly.