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"All cars in stock classes manufactured after June 1, 1961, must be factory assembly-line produced, and generally show-room sales available."

Read any book or article about General Motors during the early ‘60s and it inevitably mentions the corporation’s infamous racing ban of 1963. It’s generally accepted that the action was a simple solution to GM’s fearfulness of being broken up over antitrust concerns. There really hasn’t been...

I never completely understood how the Optional Super Stock class came into being at the NHRA Nationals in 1962. In the 1962 NHRA Rulebook, it clearly stated that "All cars in stock classes manufactured after June 1, 1961, must be factory assembly-line produced, and generally show-room sales...

Yes, the early 1960's were as good as it gets. The drag racing class rules were not the same as the NHRA rules, for the AHRA or the IHRA. But the factories usually stuck with the NHRA Rulebook and NHRA's National Events...

The beginning of the F/X classes began in 1962, and ended in 1966, when Ford and Chrysler executives decided the outrageous flip-tops and altered-wheelbase race cars had evolved to a point where there was too much disconnect with the showroom models they were supposed to be promoting. Chevy...

When the F/X class was started (in 1962), the primary focus by NHRA was the engines, and not the cars themselves. The NHRA Rulebook stipulated: "The Factory Experimental class is for stock automobiles that use manufactures optional equipment that are not necessarily factory assembly-line...

Good questions, Keith. I guess that we will never know the answers. I do remember that when I purchased my '62 409 Chevy it was not much more expensive that the new car price of the same car equipped with a 348 engine. Either engine would have been NHRA legal. Dyno Don's 1961 bubble top was...

What happened to Chevrolet in the F/X classes? Chevy never actually had a full blown factory supported F/X team. The Z-11 was created as a Super Stock car, and NHRA should have permitted it to run in the S/S class. They didn't, unfortunately. Ford did have a F/X team (the Mustangs). Pontiac...

Since the Factory Experimental class entries were not always "assembly line" manufactured, NHRA could not use "shipping weight" or "advertised horsepower" in the formula as they did in the Stock classes. They used the same formula as was used in the Gasser classes... Over the years, when the...

1962 A/FX - 0.00 to 8.99 lbs. per cubic inch B/FX - 9.00 to 12.99 lbs. per cubic inch C/FX - 13.00 or more lbs. per cubic inch

Up through 1960, the NHRA rules for Stock Classes was very straight forward. It had to be a production vehicle, produced on the factory assembly line, and avaialble to one and all at the delear's show room. These rules carried over into 1961, too. It wasn't until the NHRA Nationals in 1961...

I read somewhere that the Zintsmaster Chevy raced with either the aluminum front end or a stock steel front end, depending on the class rules per event. NHRA rules at their national events would have required that any car running an limited production aluminum front end would only be eligible...

The problems at the NHRA Nationals in 1962 as to how to catagorize the optional components on some of the Chevy's was not just a racers problem. It was a problem for NHRA, too. The NHRA Stock Class rules in the 1962 Rulebook stated that "All cars in stock classes manufactured after June 1...

I have never seen a photo of the car showing the class designation. I would be very surprised if the Zintsmaster Chevy ran in the SS/S class at the NHRA Nationals. The aluminum front end and optional engine components would have put the car in B/FX. Here are a couple of photos of some other...

We live in a time where fiction and fantasy are being turned into a false reality. It is happening in every part of our lives. Just look at this guy Santos that was recently elected into Congress, before it was found that he lied about almost everything in his past just to fool the voters...