<VV> Stock Vs Mod

[Mike Kost]

I have struggled with this issue for nearly 25 years. I started 
autocrossing in 1980 in the local SCCA and other club events. I was 
running STOCK class with quite a bit of success. The only change from 
"stock" was 60 series tires on the stock rims. I went to my first 
convention at Syracuse 1982(?) and was disappointed to find that I would 
be in "IMPROVED STOCK" class only because I had 60 series tires. I had 
carried 4 extra tires while driving my car to the convention just so I 
could run STOCK class. My normal street tires were 215-60/14 on 14x7 
rims. These would have put me in the same class. I ended up in second 
place to some guy named Seth in a borrowed car. I have since run in 
STOCK class at 2 conventions (stealing tires off of my son's car to run) 
with great success (2 first place trophies). I have mixed feelings about 
STOCK class tires. Maybe a 70 series 14" tire of an appropriate diameter 
could be specified as an alternate on a 14x5.5 rim.

Mike Kost

Smitty Smith wrote:

>Smitty Says:Autocross and Show are two different animals and can not be treated the same.  In Show there is only one stock.  That is as it rolled out the door at the factory.  A Corvair can be absolutely bone stock and still win national honors in show competition.  In Autocross none of us are likely to, or would enjoy, running the cars as they come out the factory door.  Tires being the first factor, either because of lousy handling or the prohibitive cost of running boutique repops.  So we break the "PURE" stock requirement and now vertually none are stock.  It's like being a little bit pregnant.  So nobody is correct in talking about Stock/Autocross unless the car first passes the lclc judgement of Stock Original or Stock Restored, and is then is raced in that special class.  Can you say, double the number of classes?  C'mon guys.  Get Real.
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