Pre '60 Stockers

[Dgal]

Originally Posted by treessavoy

IF anyone even builds a pre-'60's car it will only be '55 and up Chevy's.

As I pointed out in another thread, the only people that will benefit from this rule will be the Chevy guy's.

There are no other car's that can be built and be competitive with out spending over a 100k. Blown Fords and TBirds are non-existing and would cost 100k just to buy, 57 Pontiac's were not competitive, 58's were but where are you going to find one for less that $40,000.00, blown Studes suffer the same fate as the Fords.

Lastly, compare the availability of racing parts for the Chevy's vs all the other cars........nada, zip!

But, if there is a masochist out there I have a '58 Tri-power Pontiac Chieftan sedan, auto and posi with only 29k miles for only $38,000.00!

JimR

If it was a station wagon, I think my buddy would be all over it. He is looking for a Pontiac station wagon of that era to use as a tow vehicle for his '98 Firebird on an open trailer. He has a nice enclosed trailer, but he waxes on and on about how much he likes seeing drag cars on open trailers.

He is a bit twisted and that is why he likes me, I think. He said he would figure a way to put a LY6 that he got from E-bay in the wagon and air ride the suspension in it.

Don

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lee

My guess is NHRA will allow a current Paxton to replace the antique Paxton superchargers. After all, they are both belt driven superchargers, right.
You can find decent '57 T-Birds for $25K. A Studebaker or T-Bird with a new Paxton could be pretty interesting!

The transmissions / bell housings would be the problem.

[Chad E532]

My Father put his 1956 2 door post Bel Air together in 1971 for stock eliminator racing. Now 40 years later it looks like he is going to give it another go.
The combo was a 225hp 3 speed running M/S, but this time we are going with a glide behind the 225 hp 265 to run in N/SA. Back in 1971 he was running low 13's with the stick (and far different camshaft rules) but given today's technology and rulebook is it feasible to get this car down into the 12.20-30 range?
Here is a picture of the car now in Pro ET brackets.

[Jeff Lee]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

The transmissions / bell housings would be the problem.

Ford apparently makes a pretty neat powerglide nowadays. QuickTimeInc will make a bellhousing for a manual trans (if they don't already have one). And I'm sure NHRA would just throw in transmission adapters legal on pre-1960 vehicles if somebody asked.

[Paul Merolla]

You won't see anything pre-'60 that isn't a Chevy...ONLY Chev and Cadillac have any listings earlier than t1960 in the class guide, and I really doubt anyone would build a '59 Caddy stocker. Unless NHRA adds some cars to the guide. (can you say, "snowball's chance in hell?")

[Jim Cimarolli]

Originally Posted by Chad E532

My Father put his 1956 2 door post Bel Air together in 1971 for stock eliminator racing. Now 40 years later it looks like he is going to give it another go.
The combo was a 225hp 3 speed running M/S, but this time we are going with a glide behind the 225 hp 265 to run in N/SA. Back in 1971 he was running low 13's with the stick (and far different camshaft rules) but given today's technology and rulebook is it feasible to get this car down into the 12.20-30 range?
Here is a picture of the car now in Pro ET brackets.

If NHRA lets the older cars run that good single 4 manifold that originally came on the 327-300 horse motors,(sorry), I'd forget about running the 2X4's, that manifold sucks.

[X-TECH MAN]

If NHRA or an old tech guy kept the old guides its all in there. I just threw mine away last Febuary. Now I wished I had kept it. It had everything from the 49 Olds on up. I used it for IHRA's pure stock class and regular stockers since IHRA allowed them for as long as I remember. Oh well........

[Woodro Josey]

Hey Terry, i will have to do some digging but i may have one of the old Red Books that has all the older stuff, plus one of the black books with the engine specs!

[treessavoy]

Originally Posted by Dgal

If it was a station wagon, I think my buddy would be all over it. He is looking for a Pontiac station wagon of that era to use as a tow vehicle for his '98 Firebird on an open trailer. He has a nice enclosed trailer, but he waxes on and on about how much he likes seeing drag cars on open trailers.

He is a bit twisted and that is why he likes me, I think. He said he would figure a way to put a LY6 that he got from E-bay in the wagon and air ride the suspension in it.

Don

Don,

There is a '57 Pontiac Safari 2 dr wagon for sale in this months AutoTrader Classic Cars edition that is all original with matching no.'s for $29,495.00. This is the model that looks like Chevy Nomad.
Contact no. is 714-779-7257.

JimR

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Woodro Josey

Hey Terry, i will have to do some digging but i may have one of the old Red Books that has all the older stuff, plus one of the black books with the engine specs!

Great Woodro. The Red book is what I had and a black binder "old" engine spec. book. I dumped it all when I moved. NHRA should still have their stuff around someplace.