![]() ![]() It’s like looking through a window into the glory years of drag racing when creativity, smarts, and driving talent could keep up with check books. Many of these images have rarely been seen if ever. There are some killer cars featured in this time capsule. Four race car drivers and nine spectators were injured in a series of crashes in modified stock car races held that day. The first-ever NHRA Pro Stock event win went to the legendary Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins who defeated Ronny Sox with a 9.98 in the final round of the 1970 Winternationals in Pomona. Auto racing: NYS Fair's most dangerous tradition (vintage photos). Welcome to Vintage Stock Car Racing We are owners, collectors, restorers, enthusiasts and fans of historic NASCAR race cars but most of all we are racers We prepare and race our cars just as the teams raced them at some of the most legendary race tracks in America,Watkins Glen, Sebring, Daytona and Road Atlanta to name just a few. ![]() “Win on Sunday, sell on Monday” was the battle cry. The manufacturers ate it up and spent great sums of money making sure their field soldiers flew the colors of their brand in winning fashion. It was heads up racing, first car to the stripe wins. Pro Stock was basically an outgrowth of the Super Stock class yet it featured a less stringent set of rules and no handicaps. The NHRA officially recognized Pro Stock as a professional eliminator in 1970 where it was slotted below Top Fuel and Funny Car, just as it is configured today.
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