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In the early ‘60s, as performance power their big-inch engines were blessed fans and competitors alike
increased for the stock-bodied producing to the ground. With when they announced the very
doorslammers, the NHRA began “weight transfer” as their mantra, exciting A/FX class to the world.
creating new classes such as inventive and rule-bending drag By the following year, the cars were
Optional Super Stock (1961) racers began coupling an engine becoming even more extreme and
and Super Super Stock (1962). setback with moving the rear end nitromethane was finding its way
Shackled with the then much forward some 8-15” and the front, into fuel tanks of most of the cars.
skinnier rear slicks of the day gasser/altered-style tube front axle Once again, the NHRA, the sport’s
with their harder compounds, forward another 8-10”. major sanctioning body, re-named
competitors continued to look for Match racing these “altered” cars the class as ‘Experimental Stock,’
new ways to be able to transfer the was popular and in 1965, the NHRA but later ceded to the ‘nickname’
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