1968 Camaro in C/SA?

[MEXJOE]

Originally Posted by Paul Wong

The guide is pretty clear there is a weight break for stick and TH. The 375 396 and 302 are the only stick only combos in a 68 Camaro. This has been this way for 40 years

I must be getting old.... So the 1968 car will make it to C/SA BUT the 1969 will not because of the 25 lbs difference in shipping weight. Is that correct?

[Ronald Urquhart]

Yes 68 camaro 350 hp came with automatic I've switched back and forth 325 to 350 hp over the years

[Div2Fan]

Originally Posted by fredjohnston

Guys this is the new NHRA where you can make up a combo and run whatever class you want. Just ask Jimmie Bridges. He’s been doing it for years.

What do run? Where have you won? What records have you set? Have you ever even made a pass down a track? Looks like you only get on here to bash someone or their work. You like calling out names, how about you call out yours. How about you climb in a class and see how well you do.

[Paul Wong]

Originally Posted by MEXJOE

I must be getting old.... So the 1968 car will make it to C/SA BUT the 1969 will not because of the 25 lbs difference in shipping weight. Is that correct?

My mentors in this whole deal told me to study the book. There are good combos, bad combos and back in the day a car that broke 10.00 was a hell of a lot better than one that broke 10.49. Cars would not be built over the place where they broke in the guide. I built a whole new car in a 65 Plymouth Valiant convertible for weight break alone.

So the bottom line is the guide is full of cars that miss a class by 5 pounds.

[jimmyparker]

I believed for years that Chevrolet never put a solid lifter motor in front of an automatic until '69 but somewhere along the way the '68 Chevelle with the 375/396 was allowed to run with an automatic, maybe Dwight can fill us in on when that happened.


My car misses the 11lb break by 2 lbs @ 10.99.

[MEXJOE]

Originally Posted by Paul Wong

My mentors in this whole deal told me to study the book. There are good combos, bad combos and back in the day a car that broke 10.00 was a hell of a lot better than one that broke 10.49. Cars would not be built over the place where they broke in the guide. I built a whole new car in a 65 Plymouth Valiant convertible for weight break alone.

So the bottom line is the guide is full of cars that miss a class by 5 pounds.

I was not trying to be a jack azz I just wanted to know if I was looking at things the right way.
I see the shipping weight diffidence now, as I was unaware of this fact.
It is interesting.
Thank you for your clear guidance on this topic.

[fredjohnston]

Originally Posted by Div2Fan

What do run? Where have you won? What records have you set? Have you ever even made a pass down a track? Looks like you only get on here to bash someone or their work. You like calling out names, how about you call out yours. How about you climb in a class and see how well you do.

I’m not sure what any of that has to do with the facts at hand. Poor Jimmy Allund came all the way across the pond with his Nova, ran it in the wrong class as was DQ’d after qualyfying. Why the double standard?

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by fredjohnston

I’m not sure what any of that has to do with the facts at hand. Poor Jimmy Allund came all the way across the pond with his Nova, ran it in the wrong class as was DQ’d after qualyfying. Why the double standard?

If only you actually had a grasp on the facts.............

[fredjohnston]

Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich

If only you actually had a grasp on the facts.............

I see the facts in the black and white in the NHRA classification guide.

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by fredjohnston

I see the facts in the black and white in the NHRA classification guide.

Yeah, well what you don't see, or grasp, is that NHRA officials told Jimmy his car was legal to run SS/B after they added HP to that combination because he was going too fast in SS/C (he alone pushed the combination well below 0.85 under) and after he set the record, in Bowling Green, in August. So, you falsely accused Jimmy of making up rules. Jimmy asked NHRA if the additional HP made his car legal to run SS/B, and NHRA told him yes, and passed it through tech as being legal.



Oh, the reason the NHRA official told Jimmy he could move was because the HP was put on the combination strictly by him, so that official said that the HP was on the aluminum heads, because Jimmy had only run the aluminum heads and he was the only one running the combination.




Funny, Dallas Kelly never complained about Jimmy running SS/B. Neither did A.H. Adkins. Neither did Steve Kent or J. Allen Sherman. The hitters in SS/B never seemed to be bothered by Jimmy Bridges being in the class with them.