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[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Mike Carr

The '65 Malibu and '64 Plymouth on page 2 of this thread. There are many others, too ,I've seen over the years. Cowl hoods on big Chevies, bigger-than-factory scoops on mid 60's Mopars, and other stuff. Years ago, I went to an NMCA race at Norwalk. The "Nostalgia" S/S cars, some had split Dominators, Dart and B-1 heads, SVO 460-type blocks, Powerglides in non-GM cars, and on and on.

Most cars I've seen, they are Nostalgia in name only.

Mike, I agree on most of this stuff, but for instance B1 heads were always allowed in NMCA and NSCA, as they are an outgrowth of the Max Wedge engine series.
No 385 series Fords were allowed ,at least there.

I hated when the cowl hoods were allowed .Even the modern type wheels, (which I was guilty of on my 64 Tempest, ten years ago) But, it wasn't a GTO ,so I refused to put a GTO scoop hood on it.

I don't know who's running that part of the show at BG, or what they'll allow.

The 65 Chevelle isn't all that egregious. With the 9 second A/FX classes ,a match race style is kinda cool. That one reminds me of Tom Sturm or Malcolm Durham's car, scoop and all.

What you have to remember is it's just an index bracket race.
It's a far cry from real Super/ Stock as we know it. Those days are long gone except for right here on Class Racer

[Stocker 2]

Older looking cars with modern day horsepower is what passes for todays "nostalgia racing". Looks like this too is getting out of hand. What a shame!

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

Mike, I agree on most of this stuff, but for instance B1 heads were always allowed in NMCA and NSCA, as they are an outgrowth of the Max Wedge engine series.
No 385 series Fords were allowed ,at least there.

I hated when the cowl hoods were allowed .Even the modern type wheels, (which I was guilty of on my 64 Tempest, ten years ago) But, it wasn't a GTO ,so I refused to put a GTO scoop hood on it.

I don't know who's running that part of the show at BG, or what they'll allow.

The 65 Chevelle isn't all that egregious. With the 9 second A/FX classes ,a match race style is kinda cool. That one reminds me of Tom Sturm or Malcolm Durham's car, scoop and all.

What you have to remember is it's just an index bracket race.
It's a far cry from real Super/ Stock as we know it. Those days are long gone except for right here on Class Racer

Malcolm Durhams 64/65 (It was the same car with a different front end on it) Chevelle never had a cowl induction hood scoop on it. When I started with the NMCA the Nostalgia S/S class had to be legal engines and legal hoods with a REAL 10.5 tire as in the old A/FX days (yeah I know they were 10 inch racemasters but they were as close as we could get for the look). Not the extra wide 10.5 W's of today. I caught one of the "HERO"s" of the NMCA who just happened to be the chaplain (boy could his wife and him ever cuss !) with a 2% altered wheelbase Plymouth at Maple Grove and that was the end of it. Next year we went to the current index style of racing.