Already weary from fending off antitrust regulators, GM’s top brass cut the cord to loyal shops and drivers.
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vehicle sales-attracting worrisome attention from the feds. While GM’s managers looked the other way, GM’s market share increased to more than half of all U.S. In particular, teams fielded by Mickey Thompson, Smokey Yunick, and Ray Nichels had been running wild with unofficial factory funding. Mid-1957, when more than 50 American automakers and suppliers pledged not to directly or indirectly sponsor or support auto racing, or even promote performance in advertisements, PMD's Bunkie Knudsen had secretly formed a back-door network of "skunkworks" operators. Nearly no one outside of PPC and NHRA knew at the time how close Wally came to extending the unpopular ban beyond its seven miserable years.Ī month after Pomona’s season opener, the "stocker" world was rocked by GM's reinvigorated support for the Automobile Manufacturers Association (AMA) racing ban that its Pontiac division, in particular, had been circumventing with great success in NASCAR, USAC, NHRA, and land-speed racing for five years. Indeed, just as president Parks wished, NHRA stubbornly continued to enforced the gas-only formula for its next (and only other) 1963 national event, Indy’s Big Go.
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editorial director Wally Parks expressed buyer's remorse to his editors at Hot Rod, Car Craft, Rod & Custom: "Due to limited field of Fuelers that appeared for participation in the Winternationals, and the great amount of difficulty a number of them provoked, it is doubtful that NHRA will continue to include these classes at its major events," began a February 19 internal document unearthed only a few years ago in the PPC archive (by longtime, now-ex-archivist Thomas Voehringer). In February at Pomona, fuels other than pump gasoline returned to NHRA for the first time since the 1956 Nationals-if only unofficially and "experimentally." Immediately afterwards, NHRA president and outgoing Petersen Publishing Co. Routt PhotoĮntire books could be written about the many historical milestones recorded during this single season. To reduce size, hold down CTRL button and press - A.J. Each time you press the + it will increase font size.
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