Ford First "Stocker" Into The Eights

[boster]

Congrats to Don Fezzel and team he did real good . It's not easy to do what he did or what Anthony's been doing . I had enough motor this week to do the same thing in stock but we could not get the car to hook up . All of the D1 guys are working real hard to get the cars down the track . Big Daddy did it with a stick to boot , Don is the man. Old car or new this requires a lot of time , money and effort on the teams part

[Jeff Teuton]

Just for conversation, just how far back should the rules be pushed? 1960, 65,70, camshafts (we all know that story), anybody got any Atlas Bucrons left, Chev trans with chev insides, stock wheels, the carb that came with no mods, mufflers & complete exhaust, no weight moved ( famous gas tanks etc), just how far back? What state would you (Bruce) be willing to run that beautiful corvette? I mean if we gonna regulate, then let's regulate all the stuff. And while we are at it, lets disallow all the specialty parts allowed by the regulators, (later carbs, heads, etc). It don't matter if they ain't any, and lets face it how can there not be plenty chevy stuff left. They made milliions unlike Ford and Mopar who at the time were just kept in business by GM to keep the regulators off of GM. Drive the car to the race? Why not. Litereally off the showroom from 62 up? Might be fun.

[novassdude]

I think if they were doing this with showroom available cars there would be a whole lot less complaining going on. Look under the hood of a normal show room Challenger and a PD challenger you would be lucky to even see that the motors were even related.

[Bruce Noland]

Anthony,
It does seem like it took awhile for you to get your program together, but others have not had as much difficulty. Don't forget we are in the same division. Also, it is not the job of the ahfs to correct intentional misrepresentations by the oem's and nhra staff.

Jeff,
It's not the parts and changes that have been allowed over 50 years that is ruining the Stock and Super Stock categories, and you know it. It's the hugely bogus factors that will continue to be a problem. You should stop pretending that this is business as usual. This is a wholesale give away to the oem's. And that includes the new Camaros. You guys all belong in separate classes. Don't think we are going to lay down on this problem. I have heard from one person who is working on a social media campaign (twitter) to make the nhra fans aware of what is going on between nhra and the oem's. I wish him well.

[D.Johns]

08 cobra jet 491hp

08 Shelby 500hp

All the fuss for a number 3 qualifier that was only 1.046 under index. Only 2 cars even registered for AA/stock.