NHRA car numbers in late 60s.

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Originally Posted by Steve Stasko

Numbers were assigned per race.

The permanent/division numbers came out in 1972.

That may be true for the Sportsman but an old friend, Don MacArthur ( RIP ) raced Top Fuel starting in the 60's and on at times he would pull out his licence from his wallet and show off his number, think it was like # 68 or something like that. Funny but he always called it Top Fool.