https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2019/...nate-seventies-stock-class-racing/?refer=news Pretty interesting... Cheers, Richard
I told Doug about the article, may be he well comment about what's going on with the car & how accurate the article is.
Some controversy afoot here from this article: Fred C says: April 5, 2019 1:29 am I’m not understanding this. I was around in this era and my understanding of nhra stock class rules were that the manufacturer must have made 500 of any car/powertrain version and it had to be available to the general public. I know there were some exceptions but even 50 of the 1964 Ford 427 Thunderbolt Fairlanes were required. How can you just make a near one off version and have it legal for nhra stock or even superstock? Defeats the whole idea of a 455 Stage 1 Buick Skylark.
"The entire Stage 2 package — which included a revised camshaft, an 11:1 compression ratio, a Holley 850-cfm carburetor atop an Edelbrock intake manifold, and Mickey Thompson headers — added about 100 horsepower total and shaved a half-second from the best Stage 1 quarter-mile times" I would disagree....I would say more than a second....I'd venture close to 2 seconds. 13.70s to 11.70s.....at least
Unfortunately Buick did not release a stage two headed car to the public therefore it was not eligible to compete NHRA stock class racing. When pops and Jim Bell raced in stock class When NHRA saw the times the stage one was running they change the rules in the class, the car became no longer competitive That's when they decided to put the stage two components on the car and immediately was a second faster or more.
According to what I read here, the car wasn't legal, but perhaps back in the day it was http://www.nhraracer.com/content/general.asp?articleid=46635&zoneid=132
