RE: clubs, meets, categories, judging

[Jock J Jocewicz <namdra@xxxxxxxx>]

I have followed with interest this thread.

For quite a few years now NAMDRA has had a show class at their meets for
non-AMC powered AMC's and I have gotten no complaints about this class.
In  fact, some of the non-AMC powered AMC's have gotten a lot of
attention from those attending the meets, like for the past few years the
Hemi powered Rambler that a member has shown at our meets. One problem
with not having a class for these cars is that the AMC clubs in their
applications do not state your AMC has to be AMC powered in order to join
the club, thus you have those with non-AMC powered AMC's join the club/s
because they do have an AMC!

But one thing NAMDRA has always done and that is in the race portion of
our meets, the vehicles must be AMC powered but do not have to be AMC's.
We have had dragsters, roadsters, funny cars, a Corvette!, Henry J,
homebuilt, etc. race but they were all AMC powered. We will again have
that rule for our 2005 meet, the AMC NATIONALS, but in our next
newsletter we will have a form for members to vote on (the racers) to see
if they want to change this rule for 2006. 

I, myself, would like to see all AMC's be AMC powered but do realize it
is a free country and some people like to do their own thing. Plus the
fact that AMC engines are getting rarer and rarer, especially the 390's &
401's. So I will not cut down anyone that put another make engine in
their AMC but wish they hadn't! My one thought is that if NAMDRA does
allow non-AMC powered AMC's to race, then we should start off with the
Chrysler Corp. powerplants seeing they did buy AMC. In fact, I remember
IHRA allowing Mopar crate engine in AMC's in one class and be legal. 

Jock Jocewicz - President/Editor NAMDRA     NAMDRA@xxxxxxxx
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'05 AMC NATIONALS - SEP. 15-17, 2005 CORDOVA DRAGWAY PARK

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