1972 ONLY NHRA Stock Eliminator

[Stan Weiss]

Have you seen this thread?


1972 NHRA 'Stock Class'

http://classracer.com/classforum/showthread.php?t=51198


Stan

[oldskool]

Originally Posted by Stan Weiss

Have you seen this thread?


1972 NHRA 'Stock Class'

http://classracer.com/classforum/showthread.php?t=51198


Stan

Yeah, I've seen that thread. And there is some good info in it, for this thread.

But it don't answer all my questions. And it don't include the eyewitness accounts I'd like to get, of EXACTLY how closely NHRA adhered to those rules & how closely most smaller tracks adhered to those rules, especially the "No trailering" rule.

Several good eyewitness accounts should give us who weren't there, a better understanding of exactly what it was like for the Stock racer, in 1972.

[oldskool]

In doing a search, I found this.

" I believe Kenny Horne set the A/S record...in a 67 GTO..."

I think '72 would be the only year a '67 GTO could have run A/S.

So, anybody here know of Kenny Horne or his '67 GTO ?

[oldskool]

Tom Kasch has posted LOTS of lists of event & class winners, as well as nat record holders, from back in the '70's.

But, I just went thru the list of all his threads. Not a single thread title, that I saw, mentioned 1972.

So, again, does anybody here know where to find a list of Stock class winners and/or Stock nat record holders, for 1972 ?

[oldskool]

Found this in my search. It's a post from a guy who was an NHRA tech, back then.


NHRA Junior Stock

OK, he said the '73 Stock rules were the same as '72. The class weight breaks were different, but rules the same. So, in this post you can read the Stock rules from the '73 rule book.

NHRA Junior Stock

[oldskool]

Here's a quote from another article I read, about the '72 Stock Elim class.

"...if you ran a Stocker in 1972, not only weren't you allowed such basic amenities as headers, slicks, racing cams, and manifolds, but you also had to drive the car to the track instead of trailering it..."

I also thought this was interesting. I'd mentioned that all the class records were set to a minimum, at the beginning of the '72 season. It seems that they were quite soft. Don't know if this was a minimum, or a record a racer had set.

" Some of those early 1972 Stock Class records were easy targets.
I found photo's of my friend running a 1970 Plymouth Superbird 440/375 HP in
A/SA (9.00 - 9.99 wt/hp)
Window shoe-polished with a 13.12 in April 1972."

Here's a video from the 1972 World Finals race, @ Amarillo. The winning Stocker was a '72 C/SA Buick, which won the All-Buick final. That Stock final begins @ the 10:45 point of the video. That Buick was the C/SA record holder & won most of the races that year.

https://bangshift.com/bangshift1320/...-world-finals/

Here's a pictorial video about that Buick. There is a very interesting pic @ the 3:20 point. If I understand it correctly, it says that Truman Fields won @ the Summer Nats & @ Indy, but was disqualified from both wins because of tires. I've never heard of that before. I've even posted a pic of Truman & his '68 Bird in the Summer Nats winners circle.



There is a pic of an M&H tire ad, showing that the Buick ran M&H treaded street tires that season. They are exactly the same tires I ran during my '73 season.

[jimmyparker]

Most of us that raced during that time frame have done our best to forget these rules, a real disaster and it took 3 years or so to get straightened out.

[Stewart Way]

Originally Posted by oldskool

In doing a search, I found this.

" I believe Kenny Horne set the A/S record...in a 67 GTO..."

I think '72 would be the only year a '67 GTO could have run A/S.

So, anybody here know of Kenny Horne or his '67 GTO ?

Yes Kenny did set the record in A/S. I worked for Buster in Div 2 and certified the car. Think it was Suffolk but not sure. Kenny changed to an M/S Impala (I think) and was RU at the Summer Nats maybe 1974. He still races in SS with a SS/GT SBC. Fayetteville NC

[oldskool]

Originally Posted by Stewart Way

Yes Kenny did set the record in A/S. I worked for Buster in Div 2 and certified the car. Think it was Suffolk but not sure. Kenny changed to an M/S Impala (I think) and was RU at the Summer Nats maybe 1974. He still races in SS with a SS/GT SBC. Fayetteville NC

Do you remember what month that was ? I assume the record may have been reset several times during that season. So, Truman could have set it either before or after Kenny set it.