Ford First "Stocker" Into The Eights

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Originally Posted by Mike Carr

NHRA actually have avoided this whole transgression with one or two simple lines in the Rulebook:

"If you could not buy the car, as is, and license it, register it, insure it, and drive it home, it is not a Stocker, it is S/S only".

Like the Race Hemi's, AMX, Thunderbolts, etc.

I tend to agree as well, but I can appreciate both sides. The addition of these cars is not much different that when NHRA combined SS and Modified. However, all of the modified cars have their own classes.... as it should be in Stock.

In support of that, look at comp. Turbo charged cars have their own classes as do the supercharged cars.

All of the stockers could run in the eliminator against each other fairly but the the new "order from a menu" cars should not be combined in the same classes with "real" OEM stockers. There is no factor or equation that will ever make them the same.