Saturday Night Racer - American Stocks

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American Stocks
04/30/10 at 6:37pm

What are we going to do for cars in 5 to 10 years from now in this division? Mid 70's cars are becoming extinct due to the increased prices of scrap iron.
I am having a hard time finding a rear end now. years ago they use to be a dime a dozen and now everyone has sent them to scrap yards. cars in the 80's are to short wheel base & they are about gone as well. 90's models don't have full frames.
What are we going to do??????

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ka_jd7and1 LMR God Offline Posts: 1052 Bakersfield, CA	Re: American Stocks Reply #1 - 04/30/10 at 8:07pm Caprices until they're gone, then small metrics is my guess. Apparently the strut Camaros are pretty fast dirt cars, but they're really short wheelbase.
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Chad11 LMR God Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 662	Re: American Stocks Reply #2 - 05/01/10 at 8:25am the class will be eliminated and we will only have mini stocks.
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Re: American Stocks
Reply #3 - 05/01/10 at 8:50am

ka_jd7and1 wrote on 04/30/10 at 8:07pm:

Caprices until they're gone, then small metrics is my guess.

Apparently the strut Camaros are pretty fast dirt cars, but they're really short wheelbase.

The strut Camaro's are fast, but the front ends cant take a lick of contact, or they're done for the night.

I think there is already aftermarket clips.

there will be an approved clip (stamped?)--IMO

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ka_jd7and1 LMR God Offline Posts: 1052 Bakersfield, CA	Re: American Stocks Reply #4 - 05/01/10 at 9:39am I was just going down the list of cars that haven't been used up yet. Ultimately, I agree we will have fab front clips. Somebody already makes a full fabbed metric frame that has all stock suspension point geometry. It's expensive though.
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Daves_53c_19 LMR Rookie Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 49	Re: American Stocks Reply #5 - 05/04/10 at 4:03pm they will just erase the class and u will have to run a mini jmo
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Racin72 LMR Senior Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 334 Califorina	Re: American Stocks Reply #6 - 05/04/10 at 5:20pm Chad11 wrote on 05/01/10 at 8:25am: the class will be eliminated and we will only have mini stocks. LOL ur alittle LATE Jr
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Daves_53c_19 LMR Rookie Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 49	Re: American Stocks Reply #7 - 05/04/10 at 7:20pm Racin72 wrote on 05/04/10 at 5:20pm: Chad11 wrote on 05/01/10 at 8:25am: the class will be eliminated and we will only have mini stocks. LOL ur alittle LATE Jr would have sad mods but we know thats not happening
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GRAHAM RACING #11 LMR Rookie Offline Dirt Late Models Rule! Posts: 23 GROVER BEACH	Re: American Stocks Reply #8 - 05/04/10 at 7:43pm ITS TIME TO BUY A HOBBY STOCK
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Daves_53c_19 LMR Rookie Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 49	Re: American Stocks Reply #9 - 05/05/10 at 3:15pm GRAHAM RACING #11 wrote on 05/04/10 at 7:43pm: ITS TIME TO BUY A HOBBY STOCK ya if you got $20.000 to drop thats great. NOT!!!!!
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Re: American Stocks
Reply #10 - 05/05/10 at 3:38pm

Daves_53c_19 wrote on 05/05/10 at 3:15pm:

GRAHAM RACING #11 wrote on 05/04/10 at 7:43pm:

ITS TIME TO BUY A HOBBY STOCK

You don't need $20,000. You can build one from the ground up for $9,000 pretty easy. If you use stuff like radiator, seat, fuel cell, engine block, guages, pulleys, distributor etc. from your american stock, you can build one really cheap and be competitive.
The difference in motors from americans to hobbies is really just the cam. Then you would have to get a powerglide tranny and floater rearend, which is about $1,000.

ya if you got $20.000 to drop thats great. NOT!!!!!

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mw56racing LMR Rookie Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 33	Re: American Stocks Reply #11 - 05/05/10 at 7:33pm I would be lucky too have 6,000 in mine. I'm not super fast but we get to the top 5 once in a while and if I had a little more time to work on the car I think I would be faster. It can be done on a tight budget if you are patient and do the work yourself.
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