A NASCAR car record or class is not, at this time, a SCTA-BNI problem. Jack D. will probably chime in with the real facts on the sanctioning body for the Bobby Issac records set in 1971. Notice I said record"S" plural. He also set a 100 mile roundy round speed of 194+ avarage at Bonneville and then did a flying mile with 216+ average. Which one first?.
I do not believe SCTA had anything to do with it. Jack? Maybe USAC? It makes no difference. The Bonneville 200 MPH club recognizes records set on the salt period. It must have met the specs back then. I am checking to see when it was first mentioned in the Bonneville Speed Week Program. I couldn't find the Bobby Issac record listed any where, but I did not look too hard. He is listed in the 200MPH club. As I said, one needs to set a record sanctioned to go into that organization. It is SEPARATE.
The record as far as I know was never mentioned in a SCTA publication as a record. If it was done during speed week it may met the rules for a production record, who knows.
A person at a privvate meet could very easily set a record sanctioned by a "recognized" body to and gain entrance to the 200 MPH club but it would take some doing especially the way NASCAR rules change many times during a year. I believe it would take a NASCAR representative with all the proper templates, carb tools, cams specs, etc to santion any speed record for that class. The SCTA does not need to get into this part of land speed unless someone steps up and take "all" of the segments of it. We do not have the priviledge of a rule book and with it's changes a more than one year old car would be too hard to track.
I feel thie class is not needed in the SCTA at this time we have plenty, pick one.
I liked watching them race over the years when I could identify with the manufacturers and the model. 4 doors made into 2 doors where none are, noses made that don't fit anything production, now all cars are the same with a different decal showing Chev, Ford, Dodge, Toyota. Soon it will be IROC.
Good Luck...................... Jack Comments?