Crate Motor Class

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by Dan Fahey

Thanks for validating what I said Ed !
It was Pure Stock ever before it was Stock.
After 1973 the Blueprinted cams were reintroduced and has not stopped morphing.....
Basically Stock today is SS Lite !!
More complex and new rules implemented to keep the cars safe.

IHRA is not dying and will survive because enough us want it to.
I am not a complaining sideliner.
Doing my bit being a Contingency Sponsor.

Hope that someone on the Crate Motor side may do the same.
Create a buzz and start a movement !

Pure Stock LIVES !!
and
So will Crate Motor !!

D

Try reading that again, Dan. We had Stock way before I started in 1962. No Pure Stock.
NHRA tried Pure Stock many years later. Pure Stock did not "morph" into anything. Very small fields. Nearly zero interest. Kinda like IHRA. I wondered how long IHRA would survive when I tried running with them about ten years ago. Never saw car counts that low anywhere before, except at AHRA races when it was dying. Was not hard to see where it was headed. Single digit Super Stock fields, almost no purse. Not hard to see.

And, not everybody running NHRA writes big checks for engines, or have 5K or 6K transmissions.