page_title: Nostalgia Super Stock
section_title: The Revival, 1985 to 2010
hierarchical_section_title: Nostalgia Super Stock / History / The Revival, 1985 to 2010
caption_attribution_description: English: Texas Whale is a popular Nostalgia Super Stock drag car driven by 2014 NMCA Champion in NSS Dave Schultz
context_page_description: Nostalgia Super Stock is among the most popular, and fastest growing forms of drag racing. The Class recreates the style of drag racing very popular in the 1960s with drivers like Ronnie Sox, Dick Landy, Butch Leal and Judy Lilly.
  NSS' roots go back to the early 1980s, when retired Super Stock racers Dave Duell, Arlen Vanke and others started exhibition racing 1960s style Super Stock at Nostalgia racing events. The popularity of the class evolved into a category of drag racing with hundreds of cars and drivers competing in Championship series, and large Nostalgia Drag Racing events.
  The spirit of NSS drag racing has the same models of cars that raced Super Stock between 1959 and 1969—but with certain safety equipment updates. The cubic inch displacement of the engines in Nostalgia Super Stock is not a tech item, and motors as large as 620 cubic inches has these cars running as quick as 8-seconds in the quarter mile, at speeds over 150 miles per hour.
  While there are many different series, clubs, and events running NSS—the rules most run were developed and agreed by representatives from most of the clubs, and Universal at most NSS events.
context_section_description: The factory supported Super Stock and Factory Experimental racing had faded away. But the cars, the sounds, the looks - and despite the growing pains, how much fun it all had been – remained sharp and vibrant memories for some. Just as the dispute between the first Top Fuel racer to ever achieve 200mph in the quarter mile has many argue that it was "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, or Conrad "Connie" Kalleta, or Chris "the Golden Greek" Karamesines, The true origin of the first Nostalgia Super Stock event is the source of major disputes between clubs claiming they were the first to coin the phrase "NSS" and/or "Nostalgia Super Stock". 
  Various claims include the below by the midwest club Nostalgia Super Stock, Inc.
  According to Jim Brandon, a long-time NSS racer and automotive instructor at Linn State Technical College, by the mid-1980s there were several individuals who had started to hazily revive the spirit of the original era.
  Whether acquiring an unwanted factory original or producing a clone car from salvageable and/or reproduction parts, some started racing what would now be called NSS cars, competing informally in the central area of the State of Missouri.
  And with increased documentation from later in the decade, the visibility improves.
  Dave Campbell, the secretary of The Midwest Nostalgia Super Stock Association which later became Nostalgia Super Stock Inc. recalled, “In the mid to late 1980s, Super Chevy Magazine published a series of stories highlighting technical information on the Chevrolet 409 W-design motor.”
  The 409 (cubic inches) engine was one of the giants of early 1960s Super Stock and FX racing, along with other factory ‘big block’ competitors, the 421 Pontiacs, the 426 Max Wedge and then the 426 Hemi MoPars (Dodge and Plymouth) and the 427 FE and later the ‘Cammer’ Fords.
  “These stories led to more old-style Super Stock 409 cars being built, with six racers putting on an exhibition match race during the Super Chevy Sunday event at Indianapolis Raceway Park in 1987,” said Campbell.
  Also a veteran of the General Motors (Leeds) assembly plant in Kansas City, Missouri where he worked a 30-year career from the 1950s through the 1980s, Campbell knew this combination well. Inspired with first-hand knowledge from both owning a new 409 back in 1963 and his factory experience, he built a replica 1963 Chevrolet Bel-Air car named ‘Faded Memories.’
  At the invitation of Doug Marion, the editor of Super Chevy Magazine, Campbell joined six other 409 racers, Jim Goodwin ‘Pre Historic Rat’, Clint & Matt Murphy ‘Armortek,’ Don Evans ‘Golden Rod,’ John Barber ‘Barber John’, and Bill Burge ‘Living Legend,’ at The Super Chevy Show at IRP in July 1988.
  In May 1989, another Chevrolet 409 racer, Russ Campbell, contacted Len Greco, a promoter who was producing ‘Muscle From The Past’ events at Gateway International Raceway (Madison, Illinois), and suggested their cars might be a good fit for his program.
  Greco agreed and shortly after hosted Dave Campbell, Russ Campbell, Leroy Fly with a 1962 Chevrolet, and Rick Johnson with a 1962 Pontiac in an exhibition format at the St. Louis area track.
  In July 1989, Dave Campbell and others did a show for The National Muscle Car Association, then owned by Chuck Green, at its first annual ‘High Performance Showdown’ event at Beech Bend Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
  Later that year, Greco asked Johnson to organize an eight-car field for an exhibition race the following spring. That success led to another Greco-promoted race at Kansas City International Raceway in July 1990.
  On July 28, 1990, a meeting of racers was held at Dave Campbell’s residence in Kearney, Missouri, to discuss an outline of formal organization.
  The group’s primary purpose was to provide a complete entertainment package – ‘heads-up’ exhibition match racing, car display and interaction with spectators - to track owners and promoters.
  Under the name suggested by Dave Campbell and later approved by vote, The Midwest Nostalgia Super Stock Association published its first newsletter, named ‘Nostalgia News’ on April 7, 1991 and s
caption: NSS Car (Texas Whale) performing burnout
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