Just an idea to combine classes.

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lee

Case in point: A.H. Adkins has a SS/C '69 AMX and lives in West Virginia, races both NHRA & IHRA. IHRA came out with a "Top SS" program combining A-B-C classes into a common SS/B weight. Adkins liked the idea, rebuilt his chassis to be better and lighter and now competes in the IHRA class and also NHRA SS/B. I see from the Nitro Joe stats he's the second slowest NHRA SS/B car. Damned if he doesn't love it! And he's moving forward with more improvements. Says he hasn't been challenged to this degree in years.

SStock1373 says:
Originally Posted by GUMP
I think that the first step should be to combine sticks and autos.

If this happened their wouldn't be one stick car at the racetrack.

Oh I don't know if that's true. Myself, I would love to race against all the SS/HA cars (and there's some seriously fast cars in that class). As most of us probably had a street race or two in our life before sanctioned drag racing, I can't remember any street racer, myself included, who ran from a race over the opponents transmission!

What really irks me is the difference in indexes between the stick and auto classes! Worst yet a conversation between an official and a stick racer; the official refused to believe there were index differences between them!

IHRA never had a Top S/S class. It was Top STOCK with the A, B, C cars and unfortuneatly the crate motor combos included. Dave Ley ran a top S/S deal in Div. 1 NHRA at the Dutch a couple of years ago.