Bogacki DQ

[Jim Bailey]

Well... I still haven't seen or heard the answer...... what year is the "True" - "Real" year of Luke's Nova?

[Jim Bailey]

I guess ....NO ONE, including Luke (obviously), Knows what year his Nova is?????????????

[Chris1529]

my thoughts exactly Jim

[JRyan]

Jim,
By the looks of it. The car has the tail lights, rear marker lights, grill, and front bumper of a 70-72 Nova. The front fenders with the smaller marker lights and different emblems would be like a 69. That's as close as I can get you by looking at pictures. I walked passed the car at Brainerd but, didn't pay all that close of attention to it.
My uneducated guess is 70-72. Which one? Well I'm not sure.

Rick Ryan

[Rich Biebel]

'68...key on the dash...2 ribbed trim plates on the hood....I owned one nearly new and it had them. '69 steering wheel lock and key on column...side marker lights.....guard beams inside the doors probably.I had a '69 ....70 and up...I had one but don't remember any major differences from the '69.

Engine specs and transmission options is your major differences. Small blocks came with p/g's in '68..no turbos. Automatic Transmissions and their number of gears are not an issue though anymore, I don't think. Engine specs are quite different from '69 to '70 on the big blocks.


I was thrown out twice in my Stocker days.Once at Indy and once at E-town...neither was fun.....and a third time with my friend on a Modified Eliminator entry....that also was not fun......The one at the E-Town national event was probably the worst.....won rd 1 and got thrown out for a stupid move on my part.......that one really hurt.....I I almost quit completely over that one and did sell that Stocker for the most part because of issues like that one....

Good post though by Luke......He made no excuses for his mistake.

[bill dedman]

Rich said, " Automatic Transmissions and their number of gears are not an issue though anymore, I don't think."

I don't know what you mean by "not an issue any more."

Not an issue in that 2-speeds are just as fast as 3-speeds, or, 3-speeds are now allowed where only 2-speeds were legal, originally???.

I don't think that last scenario is the case.

I believe that if a car came with a Powerglide, and no 3-speed automatic option was offerred with that engine, it stil is limited to a Powerglide in Stock.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

But, maybe that's not what you meant, Rich

Maybe you could re-phrase that....

[Rich Biebel]

Bill I was under the assumption 3 speeds were now allowed in some years even though P/G's were the only trans that you could get with the engine you run......Maybe I'm wrong.....I don't run Stock these days.....

I kind of assumed it becasue I see so many cars that used to be P/G's with 3 speeds in them. No way these cars can launch as hard with a 'glide......

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Rich Biebel

Bill I was under the assumption 3 speeds were now allowed in some years even though P/G's were the only trans that you could get with the engine you run......Maybe I'm wrong.....I don't run Stock these days.....

I kind of assumed it becasue I see so many cars that used to be P/G's with 3 speeds in them. No way these cars can launch as hard with a 'glide......

The 3 speed automatic deal to replace the P/G is for SUPER STOCK except in the case of the 57 thru 61 Chevy big cars in stock where the "turbo glide" was deemed a 3 speed thus allowing a turbo (400, 350, 200 metric) to be a legal replacement for those cars. IE: Captian Jacks U/SA 1960 283 station wagon. Its listed in the class guide but I didnt know that a turbo glide came in a 57 ???? I thought it came in the 58 to 61 cars. I guess its because the 58 Chevys came out in late 1957 (Sept.).

[danny waters sr]

Originally Posted by bill dedman

Rich said, " Automatic Transmissions and their number of gears are not an issue though anymore, I don't think."

I don't know what you mean by "not an issue any more."

Not an issue in that 2-speeds are just as fast as 3-speeds, or, 3-speeds are now allowed where only 2-speeds were legal, originally???.

I don't think that last scenario is the case.

I believe that if a car came with a Powerglide, and no 3-speed automatic option was offerred with that engine, it stil is limited to a Powerglide in Stock.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

But, maybe that's not what you meant, Rich

Maybe you could re-phrase that....

Youhave to run whatever was available in IHRA, not sure about NHRA.