Showing posts with label Super Stock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Super Stock. Show all posts

Sunday, March 08, 2026

Hurst SS Cuda with it's original engine pulled out of the widow's garage and brought to the Barnfind section of the MCACN



It’s 1 of only 70 Super Stock BO29 Hemi Barracudas modified by Hurst Performance for competition in the 1968 season. 

Californian George Wejbe bought it new in Santa Fe Springs and campaigned it in IHRA events. 

George retired the car in 1972 and it was recently acquired from his widow. 

Remarkably, it still retains its original 426 race-spec Hemi engine and heavy-duty Torqueflite transmission, and is well documented with its original sales and finance papers, and factory-to-dealer bulletin detailing the race modifications and warranty exclusions.

Saturday, November 01, 2025

the new factory built Super Stock Charger, the 2025 Hustle Stuff Drag Pack. 50 have been built for NHRA Sportsman racers for Factory Stock Showdown competition.


The added carbon hood, doors, front fascia, and hatch makes the Hustle Stuff 100 pounds lighter than the previous Challenger Drag Pack.

The Dodge’s standard color is Knuckle White, but the18 other color choices include B5 Blue, Frostbite, Go Mango, Plum Crazy, Sinamon Stick, and Sublime. 

Sunday, August 31, 2025

there will not be a winner for the 2025 Sox & Martin Hemi Challenge. Both SS/AH cars were disqualified after the race, they failed tech inspection

During post race inspection, both the winner (Jason Line) and the runner up (Jimmy Daniels) had their cars in the tech barn and failed tech inspection.

FWIW Jason Line drove his ’68 Barracuda to an 8.280 at 160.92

Sunday, May 04, 2025

70s tv shows had some interesting ideas about what they could do for an episode to pull off something new and interesting that would get some ratings... here CHiPS went to the drag strip, and then took the Hurst SS AMX and pro gas Corvette to the streets to pull the chute

 




Credit where it's due, CHiPS dove into a LOT of cultural stuff, from featuring the latest musical stars like Laura Brannigan, to making an episode about womens roller derby, to trucking and everything else including drag racing. Hell, even Bruce Jenner took over for Eric Estrada during a contract strike int he 5th season over syndication profits, which as we know from so many tv stars stories like Gillgans Island, they didn't get paid for decades of reruns. 

https://chips-tv.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Guest_Cast&pageuntil=Mee%2C+Kirk%0AKirk+Mee#mw-pages for the 320 some guest stars on CHiPS, it's unreal how many known celebs did an episode as a character no one remembers, like Bryan Cranston, Keenan Wayans, 

Saturday, January 25, 2025

originally campaigned by Bill “Maverick” Golden in '64-'65, then it turning into "The Prosecutor" for the next two years, from 1965-66, never losing a race. It was found in a sad state of disrepair, this straight-axle match racer was painstakingly restored in 2011


this car started life as a 426ci lightweight Super Stocker quarter-mile race car in California, with owner Bill Golden campaigning in the Southwest as "The Maverick" in '64 and only losing one race. 

Then, it changed hands, moving to the Southeast and turning into "The Prosecutor." It campaigned for two years, from 1965-66, never losing a race

The original car was found in 2010 in very rough condition in the woods of Louisiana with not much left. Using that car with many other parts and pieces, Dr. Terry Winkler brought it back to life.

Thursday, July 06, 2023

Am I the only one annoyed by editors getting paid to make a website correct, who don't bother reading it?

 

I bet you can spot it easily. 

Fortunately for me, I'm the writer, photographer, editor, and publisher of this little ol blog, and not getting paid. When I screw up, I have the freedom to say "you didn't have to pay for that mistake, how's that?"

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-fascinating-underdog-story-of-the-record-braking-1969-amc-amx-super-stock-215076.html

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

clever timing to make this Arizona AMC collection (Even has an AMX SS) easy for the Barrett Jackson auction types to stop by and purchase, via Craigslist... and so sellers fee, auction fee, etc etc etc from an auction company

all five AMC performance cars sold in their iconic factory red-white-and-blue paint schemes.

The last of the AMX Hurst Super Stock, 1 of 52 made, 12.3 to 1 compression.... and a 1970 AMC Javelin Trans Am, said to be one of 100, and a 1970 AMC Rebel The Machine. a pair of 1969 Hurst/SC Ramblers, one in each of two paint schemes.

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

it's only showing 3,799 miles, and if you want a Super Stock Dart, this might be your lucky auction listing


According to the auction people, in 1977, this car was found at a car dealership in Pennsylvania by the legend Tom Hoover, who tipped off Mancini about the car, which at the time registered just 19.5 miles on the odometer. 
It had an amateur paint job, but was virtually unmolested otherwise. 
Mancini bought it with the intent to resell it, but ended up hanging onto it for a few years. 
During his time of ownership, he did install a Dana rearend and applied the Lemon Twist paint, and he replaced one door after needing a quick replacement on one of the Mancini Racing team cars. 

Then, in 1982 it was sold to a Canadian buyer. It returned to the states some years later and was stowed away as a collectors item, unraced and unaltered. Mecum’s listing notes it has been “driven only on occasional, unauthorized street jaunts since ’77,” but to this day it still shows only 3,799 miles.


https://www.dragzine.com/news/this-never-raced-original-lo23-dodge-dart-is-going-to-auction/

Sunday, July 25, 2021

Judy Lilly's 1967 factory-sponsored Super Stock Plymouth Belvedere I that legitimately did tire-smoking combat during the Super Stock wars of the 1960s, with only 26694 on the odo, is heading to auction.


this is one of only four known Belvedere I two-door sedans – as opposed to the more common pillarless hardtop – to be factory-fitted with a 426 Hemi, 
one of just three four-speed cars, 
and the only one known to have been a factory-sponsored race car.

The engine is a correctly dated 1967 426 Hemi running open headers that was assembled by Dick Landy Industries in Los Angeles before the Mopar legend Landy passed away in 2007


Saturday, January 02, 2021

Dyno Don, 1961 Super Stock Impala

Of the 491,000 Chevy Impalas built for 1961, only 142 were fitted with the 409 cubic inch engine.

 These engines were rated at 360 HP and had a single four-barrel carburetor. Some racers purchased the engines seperately and installed them in 2-door Biscayne sedans. (when's the last time you heard of a Biscayne?)

 This was permitted in 1961, factory installations were not required.

 Two racers that went to this trouble in 1961 were established drag racers Frank Saunders out of Phoenix, Arizona and Dave Strickler from York, PA.

 Frank Saunders won the S/S class at the 1961 NHRA Winternationals while Don Nicholson took the win in the Stock Eliminator category at the same event.




http://georgeklass.net/ss.html

Saturday, December 19, 2020

1967 Super Stock Coronet, the WO23 (thanks Danno!)

Chrysler was supposed to have built 50 of each to satisfy the NHRA rules but some say as little as 32 cars were built, the others being just numbers (with no actual cars assembled).

The Hemi motor used blocks designated as A-blocks, as they had the closest tolerances. Forged pistons were good for 7400 rpm. Induction relied on a Vanke intake manifold which looked stock on the outside. 

Unlike the earlier Super Stock packages that were farmed out, Chrysler put together the WO’s on their own production line. Other ingredients in the package included radio/heater delete. Prestolite transistor ignition mounted under the dash against the firewall, special distributor and coil, racing plug wires, the first application of Super Stock rear springs, trunk mounded big Super Stock Battery, no undercoating or sound deadener and lighter weight carpet. Though not advertised, the metal body components were acid dipped to reduce weight. (Chrysler called this “chemical engineering”). The cars had 10” drums up front for reduced weight and better rolling resistance. Standard Street Hemi had 11 inchers up front and 11 inch rear drums. The race cars used a standard clutch fan, but with aluminum blades.

The WO’s came through with a functional ram air hood. Chrysler took a stock hood, lightened it, and cut out a large round opening underneath. They supplied a plate that bolted around the opening to center and sealed it to the bell shaped velocity stack. The plate and stack came in the trunk along with a set of Hooker Headers that were packed in a Hooker Header box. Automatic cars came through with a special TorqueFlite that had to be shifted manually through its reverse shift pattern. The 8-3/4 rear-end was packed with the Sure-Grip 4:88 gears.

https://www.supercars.net/blog/1967-dodge-hemi-coronet-super-stock/



https://www.legendarymotorcar.com/inventory/1967-dodge-coronet-super-stock-1644.aspx

Thursday, June 13, 2019

The last Hurst SS AMX comes to light after decades in a shipping container



Ordered new by an Anchorage dealership, Sunset AMC, it was drag raced by the dealership for 1969-1970, then local drag racer Gary Clark who had seen it racing at the nearby Polar Raceway (now Alaska Raceway Park) in Palmer, Alaska, about 40 miles northeast of Anchorage saw the car in the service bay of the dealership in late 1971

"I asked Ivan Felton Jr. if I could purchase it,” says Clark. “It was not for sale until Ivan’s father overheard the conversation and told me I could buy it, but it was only for sale if I paid the full sticker on the car, $6,303.”

Gary sold the car in 1976 to friend when he moved out of Alaska, who then raced it for a couple years and then started to tub the rear.

The project was left unfinished and put into a shipping container in the late 1970s. And there it would stay for about three decades, known to just a few people deep within the AMC community, who called it the “container car.”

In 2005, Clark traded a restored 1969 AMX to that friend to get the Hurst SS AMX back. Thus the car had had just three owners, the dealership, Clark (twice), and his friend.

Then Dan Curtis, owner of AZ AMC Restorations in Peoria, Arizona (amcmusclecars.com),
learned of the car in 2008 and let Clark know that if he ever wanted to sell it, he wanted to buy it.

Finally in April 2019, they made a deal, and now the car will finally get restored

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/the-last-hurst-ss-amx-resurfaces-after-decades-in-a-shipping-container/  hat tip to https://www.facebook.com/ItRanWhenParked