SS/B is getting more interesting

[CaptCobrajet]

Originally Posted by Jim Carter

Why not? They let 1964 427 Thunderbolts into stock...
How long before Chrysler petitions for 1965 AWB cars??

JC

Noone "let" the T-Bolts into Stock. Thunderbolts have been in the class guide from day one. Two things made it happen: First, the allowance of cars to move UP or DOWN from the natural class......and second, the creation of AA for Stock. The T-Bolt figures 7.63 in Stock. It was not "allowed" because it would not fit a class. When the rules changed and AA was created, it just so happened that it could now be raced in Stock. They made 100 of them. Nothing "paper" about that car, and NOTHING aftermarket in the induction either. Just 46 year-old Ford castings. Nobody even makes those parts that will work on a Stocker engine. It was not allowed or accepted recently. It has been in there since 1970, waiting patiently for the opportunity to compete in Stock, and now it can.

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by CaptCobrajet

Noone "let" the T-Bolts into Stock. Thunderbolts have been in the class guide from day one. Two things made it happen: First, the allowance of cars to move UP or DOWN from the natural class......and second, the creation of AA for Stock. The T-Bolt figures 7.63 in Stock. It was not "allowed" because it would not fit a class. When the rules changed and AA was created, it just so happened that it could now be raced in Stock. They made 100 of them. Nothing "paper" about that car, and NOTHING aftermarket in the induction either. Just 46 year-old Ford castings. Nobody even makes those parts that will work on a Stocker engine. It was not allowed or accepted recently. It has been in there since 1970, waiting patiently for the opportunity to compete in Stock, and now it can.

I was able to make it a legal stocker (along with the X ram Hemi cars and L88 corvetttes before the HP reductions came along and NHRA made AA/S a 7.5 lb class) in the IHRA rules when I set up AA/S at 7.00 lbs. A couple of guys were supposed to be building them as one guy in paticular call me often with questions but none ever made it to the track when I was working for IHRA.