I run in the stock class. I trailer my truck because I almost always break and do not want to have to fix it in the dirt to get home (sometimes 300 miles). Since I only use this truck for pulling a couple times a year and can't justify belonging to a Pulling Club and going Pro-Stock. And I don't get insurance or buy license plates for it. If I were to come to one of your pulls it sounds like I wouldn't be able to pull.
I don't know about your stock truck rules but where I pull we can pull with open headers, after market intake manifold, D.O.T. approved tires, sometimes rear suspension blocks. But there are a few other things we can get away with because no one ever inspects us except for hitch height.
As far as a "stock" truck goes, no such thing, I have never seen a truck come from the manufacture with a hitch on it. Maybe the new ones do but the 70's through the 90's no hitch. I know thats digging pretty deep to count out a stock truck but who decides whats stock? Sometimes we've had a "heavy stock" or "cheater stock" for the more modded trucks.
Whats funny is, I've seen stock trucks with 600 h.p.,all the suspension, everything possible for pulling the sled, is O.K. with everybody but as soon as they start adding some safty stuff like a scatter proof bellhousing or drive shaft loops, than we start whinning.
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