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Nostalgia Super Stock
Big Red Ram and Texas Whale raced by Dave Schultz and his son Dallas, are typical of NSS cars

Introduction

Nostalgia Super Stock is a foot brake only class of index racing for the year models, body styles, and engine combinations, which accurately represent those cars, which raced in the FX and Super Stock classes of the ’60s. Certain exceptions in the authenticity of these cars will be allowed. Among those exceptions, but not limited to, are factors concerning safety, equality in performance, availability, and durability.
Classification will be based on a visual inspection and an e.t. range. No modifications, which alter the car from factory stock, are permitted unless they are specifically allowed in these rules.
Sandbagging, excessive braking near the finish line or excessive mph for a given e.t. is subject to result in a disqualification. Nostalgia Super Stock is an all run field, and will compete on an NHRA Sportsman type ladder. The class will qualify by elapsed time closest to index, be paired according to qualifying positions, and then advance to eliminations. All qualifiers in Nostalgia Super Stock must have a valid elapsed time recorded to be placed into eliminator competition. Nostalgia Super Stock racing will be conducted at all drag racing events (see race schedule).
Accepted Products:
Accepted Products Deadline: NMCA will accept requests from [[]manufacturer]s to have new products considered for addition to 2009 accepted lists only up until November 10, 2009. After this date, NMCA will consider manufacturer requests for new products for the 2010 season.
Qualifying Information, Ladder Type, & Tree All Run, NHRA Sportsman Ladder, .500 Full Tree, Handicap Start.
In a nutshell, the cars need to be of the type that ran S/S in the day, stock appearing body (fiberglass and Lexan allowed in some areas), stock location steering, Slicks no wider than 10.5", Full Interior (carpet, door panels, stock dash, headliner, ...), Stock floor pans, no frame alterations, engine and transmission of the same type originally available for the car (displacement is not a tech item), and stock appearing under the hood (must have inner fenders). There are a few safety concessions allowed -- such as disc brakes. Weight is not a tech item -- although extreme lightening is not allowed. Driver, Car, and equipment must otherwise pass NHRA safety inspections for the time/speed they run.
Many credit former Super Stock Champion Dave Duell as the main motivator in creating Nostalgia Super Stock Racing.

Rules

The below are a very condensed version of the most universal NSS rules. The full version of the rules can be found at http://www.nssracing.com/?page_id=39.

Car Allowed

The following is a list of cars/engines, which are allowed to compete in the Nostalgia Super Stock class:

  • AMC AMX: 1968 - 1969; 390
  • Chevrolet Full Bodied: 1959-64; 348 & 409s, Z11 427
  • Chevrolet Full Bodied: 1965-67; 396-454
  • Chevrolet Chevelle: 1964 - 1967; 396-454
  • Pontiac Full Bodied: 1959-67; 389-455
  • Tempest/GTO: 1962-67; 389-455
  • Ford Full Bodied: 1959-67; 390-427
  • Ford Thunderbolt: 1964; 427
  • Fairlane/Comet/Cyclone/Falcon: 1963-67; 390, 427
  • Dodge/Plymouth Full Bodied: 1960-67; 383-440 wedge
  • Dodge/Plymouth Full Bodied: 1964-67; Hemi
  • Buick Full Bodied: 1960-67; 401-455
  • Skylark GS: 1964-67; 400-401-455
  • Chevelle: 1964-67; 396-454
  • Oldsmobile Full Bodied: 1960-67; 394-400-455
  • Cutlass/442: 1964-67; 400-455
  • Dart/Barracuda: 1967-69; 383-440
  • Dart/Barracuda: 1968; 426 Hemi


Indexes

CLASS DESIGNATIONS & INDEX

  • AAA/FX 08.75
  • AA/FX 09.00
  • A/FX 09.25
  • B/FX 09.50
  • C/FX 09.75
  • A/NSS 10.00
  • B/NSS 10.50
  • C/NSS 11.00
  • D/NSS 11.50
  • E/NSS 12.00
  • F/NSS 12.50
  • G/NSS 13.00


All NSS class participants must declare & have posted the NSS class of choice prior to the 1st scheduled qualifying run in their respective eliminator or at the time of technical inspection. If you fail to declare your index, you will automatically be placed in the -A‖ index class. No change of class is permitted after the first scheduled qualifying round for the respective eliminator.

Reference

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Dave's 78 Magnum

BK (short for Big Kahuna -- a name friends gave him back in the early 90s) is the Administrator of MoparStyle, which he started in 2001. He's a semi-retired business executive/owner who now spends with his family, drag racing, and maintaining a slew of web sites and a gaggle of collector cars.

Childhood Eldest of five boys and three girls who grew up in poverty living in a 2 bedroom apartment. Born in Michigan, but moved to Texas in 1961. Moved again to New Jersey in 1966, New York in 1970, and back to Texas after completion of Military service. Grew up with very little supervision, as his family was so large. His father always worked three minimum wage jobs concurrently, and his mother was too overwhelmed to keep up with all of the kids by herself -- so Dave pretty much grew up on the streets -- getting into a lot of trouble with the law as a kid. He always had a job of some type as a kid, from paper routes to washing dishes.

Education He was a D/F student until leaving high school by mutual agreement at 16. Later attended various colleges in the evenings under the GI Bill, with a focus on business and computer science

Military Service Dave enlisted in the USAF in 1972, shortly after turning 17, and was the youngest to be serving at the time he arrived to Basic Training in San Antonio, Texas. He spent three years active duty driving trucks, and exchanged his last year active for two years Active Reserves (under Palace Chase) to teach others to drive trucks. Dave spent the next ten years attending college in the evenings under the GI Bill. He is a service connected Vietnam Era disabled Veteran.

Employment Career After he completed his military service, he (in order) drove taxi, Tractor-trailer, and dump truck; laid blacktop, roofed, and repo'd vacuum cleaners; was a bill collector, a carpet cleaning salesman, and a draftsman; a postage equipment repairman, a mailroom equipment salesman, and a computer repairman; a computer salesman, Executive VP of two large collection agencies, and owned a collections agency; owned a distress debt buying business, a software company, and a web hosting company; owned an race engine building company, and he now designs web sites. Dave and his eldest son (Dallas) recently started a Motorcycle Tour business by the name of Texas Motorcycle Excursions.

Favorite Quote A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.

Favorite Mopar

  • 65 Chrysler 300L Convertible 4-speed

Favorite Movie

  • Casablanca

Favorite Book

  • Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Favorite Recent TV Series

  • Deadwood

Favorite TV Show as a kid

  • Sky King

Favorite Song

  • Highway Patrolman - Johnny Cash

Favorite Singer

  • Willie Nelson

Favorite Band

  • Pink Floyd

Favorite Album

  • Dark Side of the Moon

Favorite Sports Team

  • Houston Rockets

Favorite Charity

  • Victory Junction

Favorite President

  • Ronald Reagan

Least Favorite President

I'd like to party hard all night with

  • Alice Cooper or Willie Nelson

Biggest Babe Ever

  • Vivien Leigh
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