Address:
Atlanta Dragway,
500 E. Ridgeway Road,
Commerce, GA 30529
http://atlantadragway.com/apcm/templates/track_info.asp?articleid=2657&zoneid=35Welcome to THE GEAR JAM, drag racing the way it used to be
The purpose of this event is to recreate a day at the drags in the ‘60s, with everything from Stocks and Super Stocks, to Gassers, Dragsters and Altereds. And if there were a bunch of Altered Wheel Base cars in the staging lanes, that wouldn’t hurt our feelings a bit.
1966 and older passenger car and truck body styles for Gasser, Front Engine Dragster, Altered/Comp Coupe, Nostalgia Super Stock and Hot Rod. 1967-74 passenger car and truck for Muscle Car. Dragsters and Altereds should be built to late-‘60s or earlier appearance. We want period looking cars… these can be restored original race cars, new builds, old unrestored cars fresh from the barn.
Any engine through the ‘80s is allowed. We’re looking for an engine style here, not casting numbers and date codes. For instance, Big and Small Block Chevy, Ford, Chrysler and AMC… no Ford Mod Motors, new modern Hemi or Chevy LS engines.
Race-day format
We know all you guys with vintage race cars have them for fun—and the “fun” is making heads-up passes!
For some, that fun is simply the ability to share the staging lanes with like-minded individuals with period-correct cars reliving the heyday of drag racing, and making heads-up passes against a car that looks as era-correct as yours, rather than a late-model Bracket Camaro.
For others, competing for some prize money is a lot more fun, and their cars are set on “kill” (or just shy of it) all the time. Some guys are happy running 12s or 13s, other’s aren’t happy unless they’re running deep in the 9s or faster.
So to bring out as many cars as we can, from both sides of the ET, we’re going to offer purse money for the Quick 8 in each class; those racers who make “the program,” will run through three rounds of eliminations.
For everyone else who came to have fun, we’ve got you covered with close, heads-up racing. Everyone after the Quick 8 will be paired-up against their closest competitor for individual 2-out-of-3 shootouts while the Quick 8 are running eliminations. This is a guide to give you someone to race competitively with—if you want to grudge-race someone, work it out amongst yourselves and have at it!
This lets all our racers get a full day of racing in, and it gives our spectators a great, full all-day show.
After the final eliminations, all class winners, and the two other cars with the quickest ET of the day, will do a round-robin 8-car heads-up elimination for Mr. Top Eliminator.
General Rules:
All classes:
All vehicles must pass NHRA tech to run.
Should have vintage style wheels; They don’t need to be old original wheels, just styles that were available in the ‘60s:5- slots, 5-spokes, Halibrands, Cragars, Americans, steelies, wires, factory wheels, hubcaps or moon discs. We'd like wheels limited to 16- inch diameters, unless pre-war wires.
If you have a set of custom, vintage "looking" billet wheels, such as taller smoothies that have "the look" of something traditional but are modern, please send us a picture of your car to get the go-ahead. If it's rubber band tires on 24s, don't bother.No modern paint schemes
No wings, front spoilers or other aero enhancements unless specified in class
No modern stance—that means “Not slammed to the ground!”
No electronics
MSD-style rev limiter okay; may not be used on launch
No modern hood scoops or cowl induction hoods
No modern “bullet”-style or bug-catcher blower scoops
No nitrous
No turbo unless specified in class
Cast aluminum or iron intakes only. No sheetmetal intakes.
Vintage-style U-Fab tube intakes allowed
1967 and earlier body styles only for Gasser, FED, Alt/Comp Coupe, Nostalgia Super Stock and Hot Rod.
1968-’74 bodies will be put in Nostalgia Super Stock or Muscle Car.
We’d like to see vintage style or stock wheels here, no modern hood scoops, no modern paint schemes, in keeping with the theme of the event.
No Pro-Mod, Outlaw, or tube-frame cars.
Power Adders
No nitrous
No Turbo
Round-style superchargers and turbos allowed only if Original Equipment, such as supercharged Thunderbirds, Studebakers or Turbo Corvairs.
Superchargers: GMC/Roots-type, 8:71 max displacement. Original 1950s McCollouch, Judson, etc. other brands allowed. No modern Paxton or Vortec.
Drivetrain
MSD-type or other electronic ignition allowed.
Single distributor or magneto systems only.
Rev-limiter allowed, but for engine protection only; may not be used on launch
EFI allowed ONLY with converted stack-type injection manifolds; may control fuel curve only, not ignition curve.
No sheetmetal intake manifolds.
U-Fab type manifolds allowed.
Any transmission allowed
Trans brake allowed
No “extenders” mounted below bumper to trip the lights
No electronic delay boxes, light timers or anything of that nature.
Classes:
Gasser
No wings or aero mods.
Chopped tops allowed.
Wheelie bars allowed.
SHOULD have a traditional gasser stance—nose-high, baby!
Front Engine Dragster
Wings: Front wing ONLY, must be bolt-on, may not extend forward of the front wheels. No flat aero nose cones. If it’s a rounded “bullet” nose as part of a complete enclosed dragster body as found in the late ‘60s, that’s allowed.
No rear wings, or wings in front of the tires.
Blown, injected or carbs allowed.
Any fuel allowed.
Altered/Comp Coupe
No front wings or aero noses with spoilers or splitters.
Only cage-mounted rear wing allowed.
Blown, injected or carbs allowed.
Any fuel allowed
Nostalgia Super Stock
1974 and earlier.
Still working out the rules. Will probably be NHRA and NMCA rules.
Turbo and Paxton-style superchargers allowed if originally available from the factory, and original style. No S-Trim Vortec blowers on a Thunderbird please.
Motorcycles
’66 and older, built to look ‘60s or older. Will run in the Hot Rod Class.
Hot Rod
This is the class for any vehicles that don’t fit the other classes, including but not limited to street cars, Altered Wheel Base cars, period-correct or restored Super Stocks, etc. Body mods allowed, full-fendered or fenderless, no wings or spoilers, etc. Any hot rod or racecar that looks period-correct to the ‘60s or earlier.
Muscle Car
1974 and older
No tube frame, back-half chassis cars.
No pro-mod style cars.
Street cars
Time trials for car show participants during race qualifying
