Items allowed by NHRA over the years

[Rick Schilling]

I once overheard Marty Barrett tell a competitor during tech at the U.S. Nationals that the chrome trim on his 55 Chevy was wrong for the model he was claiming it to be. He told him his grandmother once had a 55 210 Delray and the trim on her car was different so his couldn't be legal.

Didn't stick around to see how that one turned out. (Ya really kinda had to know Marty though).

[lareagle]

How about the return roads , no black top.
Class trophies or $5.
$50. for Elim.
$5 entry 1964
In 1958 cost .90 cents to watch race
1958 Chev 348 cu 3 x 2 duces 315 HP the fast one
Larry Eagle

[Bob Don]

The old hand written time slips had et and mph. That's it. No incrementals, no reaction time. The second mph light was after the finish line so if you wanted high mph, you had to drive it out the back door. For fuel check, you pulled up and they stuck a hose into your tank and took gas (I used Sunoco pump gas and Moroso octane booster).

[Dwight Southerland]

I went to Indy in '72 as a go-fer with Bob Ayres' Grog 65 Chevelle station wagon. We were called out because the front sway bar had been installed upside down. We had to change it before we could race.


Same race, some other racer had a '55 Chev who had to change sun visors because the ones in his car were out of a '57.


My how times have changed!

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by Dwight Southerland

I went to Indy in '72 as a go-fer with Bob Ayres' Grog 65 Chevelle station wagon. We were called out because the front sway bar had been installed upside down. We had to change it before we could race.


Same race, some other racer had a '55 Chev who had to change sun visors because the ones in his car were out of a '57.


My how times have changed!

I remember Bob. He was darn well going to be the last car up in the staging lanes for eliminations.

First time I ever knew of 60' times, was when sharing a track rental with R&M, at Ardmore, OK. They had the clocks from the unused lane set up at 60'. Showed up as the et from the other lane on the slip. Lee made several short passes, evidently just working on their 60' times. I was too dumb to know how to use that info.

[joe cool]

I remember my brothers 60 Pontiac. He pulled the pumpkin and took it over to the neighbors garage. The neighbor had an old Lincoln buzz-box welder. My brother installed the "6011" posi treatment on the spider gears.It lasted years but then again poor tires and little H.P. it wasn't strained that hard.

[Larry Hill]

Mine was 7018