About Stooge Expertise 8 year crew member, 25 year NASCAR historian with VAST collection of
NASCAR data (stats, photos, old magazines, books, programs). I know all
or can find all about NASCAR Winston Cup trivia, including stats, driver
facts, race records, pit & inspection info, pics of old cars and
drivers, etc.
Experience Almost 40 year fan, 8 years on pit crew, high traffic NASCAR website, hundreds of old info sources including pics
Education/Credentials Life: lived it for 8 years, been following it for almost 40 years, been to more than 200 races, worked shoulder to shoulder with many of the drivers and crewmen of the present and past, been quoted in magazines and newspapers, website listed in a book, had picture published in Nextel Cup Scene (was Grand National Scene back then). *Just quoted in a Las Vegas magazine last month (Feb/March '07) about the Vegas race*
Question When did the stock-frame NASCAR cars disappear, that is, the last factory frames before the complete tube-frame setup?
Answer I'm really not sure who drove and when the last stock frame was driven. It slowly disappeared over the 1980's and I'm pretty sure there were none left by 1988. I can tell you the first custom tube frame was built in 1960 and Ray Fox won in Atlanta with it. In 1963 Holman Moody built a custom tube frame Galaxy that Curtis Turner took to Bristol. The car was so fast that NASCAR made them take it out of the field due to Chrysler's threat of a boycott. The totally custom tube frames didn't become a mainstay until the 80's as the stock car was phased out and the custom from "ground up" car was phased in.
