Lookin for NHRA Stock Class ET/MPH from 1970-71

[g moore]

i have a copy of the record page from nat dragster from 1968--1972 if you want a pic. let me know-gary

[DeuceCoupe]

Originally Posted by g moore

i have a copy of the record page from nat dragster from 1968--1972 if you want a pic. let me know-gary

Gary,
Yes that would help thanks!
It takes quite a bit of et/mph data to figure out what was going on back then, because some of the runs were "brake light" runs so you cant trust the MPH at all and even the ET was sandbagging. More data helps. I wish I had all those old sheets but I was barely a teenager then.

[Ed Wright]

I should have added above, I went to Indy with Carroll Caudle to help him one year when I didn't have the money to take mine. He picked me up on his way through Tulsa. The Ronca brothers had their '56 there, that thing was a rocket. Mine would never run with that car. I got to thinking I made it sound like I thought the race tracks there were fast (they are), and their car was not. Those guys were bad fast. Sorry if I came across like they weren't. I should give more thought to what I post. Sorry.

[Rich Biebel]

Atco is fast as are most of the northeast tracks in cool weather....

Fastest we ever ran MPH wise in 1970 with our H/S Chevy II was 114++ MPH at York at the spring WCS race......12.20's but did not get the record that day....and we were trying......Just ran out of time and were not given a backup.....

Points were awarded for either ET or MPH and some people tried setting just the MPH end successfully.

One technique was to try and cover as much ground as possible by driving from one side to the other and back staying within the lane....

No a very good idea in a fast car on 7" tires though since they were squirrely at the top end sometimes.......low air, narrow rims....

Even a 12 second car at 110+ could get pretty loose feeling on those tires and rims at the finishline........I did not like it when I drove our car.....

[Ed Wright]

I used 4" wide wheels on my 7" Firestones. Don't remember how much air. Not much. Had to get used to the feel down near the finish line. Back then, many guys didn't travel as much as now. And, we didn't have the weather stations. I finally did get an Air Density gauge. I was lucky I raced in a slow area. I set the record where I could run the allowed tenth under anywhere around here, except Amarillo (3900'), so if I went out of division I was still in good shape.
The NHRA World Finals were in Dallas a while, then here in Tulsa for a while. We had to qualify, off the record, so we saw a lot of Div 1 & Div 7 cars, with National Record Holder painted on the fenders fail to make the show, could not even run their own records. Many set at Atco, NJ and Fremont, CA. First time I heard the term "mineshaft" used to duscribe a race track was Sonny Bryant telling me about Fremont.