What's wrong with Stock?

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by Michael Beard

Not "some". *I'm* the one that brought it up, and I specifically said first that I thought that 8-sec cars belonged in Super Stock, and I also said that if I continue to race my 15-sec Stocker against 150 mph cars I would choose to put a roll bar in the car. I haven't started any petition to NHRA or anything. Sheesh.

I guess you could go by bracket rules and not wear a helmet, firejacket or fire pants in a 15-sec Stocker, too, but I choose to wear them. I felt perfectly safe, too, right up until a car went sideways in front of me in my lane at 140+. I was just bringing up some self-preservation thoughts. To each their own.

When I sold my Gremlin to Eric Merryfield I asked him to have a rollbar installed in the car
as his daughter and son were going to drive it.He went the extra mile and had a cage and chassis connectors put in it. I would have done it if I kept the car. It's unnerving to have one of the new cars blow by you at around 60 mph. It's only a matter of time till one of them takes out a lower class stocker trying to make it close at the stripe.
It entails buying a jacket,belts etc. but hey how much is your life worth to you?