SS/D Thunderbolt in 1969 ?

[DeuceCoupe]

Originally Posted by FireSale

64 Fairlane Light Weight was/is allowed fiberglass fenders and hood. Bumpers may be aluminum. They tried fiberglass bumpers and NHRA nixed that. From the 2021 book a 427 HiRise with stock heads and manual trans has a SS hp rating of 466 and a weight of 3206. That works out to a 6.87 lbs/hp. By a 1969 book, that would be just shy of the min 7.00 for SS/D and could be made up with weight. The bracket was 7.00-7.49. 1964's were the oldest cars allowed in SS in 1969.
My references are the current book and this site for the 1969 book:
http://www.superstockamx.com/page82.php

Dale,
Thanks for that.
I only have rule books thru 1968, when you couldn't in general "adjust" the car weight like you can today.
Are you saying the weight could be "adjusted" in 1969?
I tried that link but my Norton says its a known dangerous link so I didn't want to go there. Not that Norton is always right.

If you have time to look at my last post on pg1 see what you think of it - everything seems to make sense if the glass fenders were allowed which it seems they were. I think what i read was that for 1965-up CARS, they had to be all steel (except the hood) so that's why Mopar did the A990 in all steel.

I just wondered why the T-bolts all disappeared in 1965-66-67-68 but I think I got it on my page 1 post here.

I'd sure like to get that 1969 Rule book. I will send you a PM
EDIT: Well PM doesnt seem to work, maybe it's my setup or Norton or something. In any case I got the 69 rule book from that HAMB link so thanks.