Stock and S/S hoods

[DeuceCoupe]

Originally Posted by Stephen & Horace Johnson

You can run the 2-4 or single 4 with the hood scoop ...I have ran both combos for years...

Yes I read in today's class guides online that you can run any combo for the 66-67 Fairlane 427:
4v flat hood
8v flat hood
4v glass hood
8v glass hood

But it was strange back in the 1960s.
The only class guide I have a page of is from 1970, but dates back to some time in 1968. It lists ONLY:
4v flat hood
8v flat hood
8v glass hood

So I conclude the 4v glass hood was NOT legal circa 1968-70.
And, the Fairlane seems to disappear from the wins/records in W/P=7.70 class in 68-70 which would jive with a change in the rules.

Maybe because of the way they were factory built:
66 was all glass hood 8v (all 57 of em)
67 was all flat hood, 4v and 8v
So when they started running too good in 1967-68, NHRA was looking for ways to cull the herd down to what was actually factory built combos.
Just a guess. So long ago, I was a kid then.

But in 67 and early 68, Fairlanes set records in the W/P=7.70 class.
I figured, well, they just ran the flat hood 4v, which was W/P=8.00 or so.
But then I saw McCain's car from 1967-68, with the glass hood, apparently running 1967=SS/C=7.70 and SS/D=7.70 in early 1968 ie Pomona.

So I figured, ok it has to be a 4v under that hood because an 8v wouldve run in SS/B=7.00 class.


The flat hood 4v is so much easier, the rules never changed, no factoring, etc. Trying to capture all the history of the 1960-71 era!
Thanks