This was the method used on August 7th. After months of advertising in their own magazine and other drag racing periodicals and newspapers, Super Stock opened the gates at York to the biggest one-day crowd in drag racing history at the time. According to the book, a turnaway crowd (and management actually did turn fans away) of 21,650 fans filled the countryside for the first great Funny Car race ever held.

Competing that day were roughly 200-250 cars and they were included in five weight classes. The top-of-the-line Unlimited Class was for rear-engine, blown, fuel and unrestricted for weight and cubic inch cars. The 2,700-pound class was for the altered wheelbased factory cars on gas; the 3,000-pound class was for injected and carburated 3,000-pound cars like the A/FX NHRA-legal Ford Mustangs; the 3,200-pound class was open to all cars limited to 427-cid limit and weighing between 3,200 and 3,400-pounds, and with a wheelbase of at least 110 inches. The 3,400-pound cars had to have a 110-inch wheelbase and run on gasoline.

When class eliminations were completed, the five class winners and the next best two elapsed times per class were invited along with the three qualified 3,400-pound cars for the Top Stock Handicap Eliminator class.

After Handicap Eliminator was set, the Super Stock staff set up a guaranteed crowd pleaser, Heads Up Eliminator. This was made up of five class winners and the next best 11 elapsed times regardless of class. It was small wonder indeed that the Heads Up action didn't get STARTED until 2:30 a.m. August 8th. By the time the somewhat reduced in size (reportedly 10 cars) field made it to the line, thousands of fans had abandoned their seats and worked their way to the staging area and the track's edge, eerily reminiscent of a wild street race scene.

The $1,000 first prize in Handicap went to the 1965 NHRA Winternationals Top Stock champ Bill Lawton in the Tasca Ford Mustang 3,200-pound A/FX over Cecil Yother's red-lighting "Melrose Missile" 3,000-pound Plymouth. Lawton's best run was a 10.62, while the 3,200-pound class winner Dick Brannan in a Mustang ran a 10.46 best.

Another $1,000 was handed out to Pennsylvania's Bob Harrop in "the Flying Carpet" injected fuel-burning Unlimited Class 1965 Dodge Coronet with a 9.32/146.57 (Low E.T.) over Bud Faubel in the Unlimited Class Faubel & Weiler "Honker" Dodge Coronet.

The $500 class winner checks went to Al Eckstrand's "Lawman" Dodge (over Dick Landy) in Unlimited. Ronnie Sox in both 2,700-pound and 3,000-pound won first prize $500 checks, but had to share the former one with Dave Strickler due to a starting line snafu. The Brannan's Starck-Hickey Ford Mustang won the 3,200-pound class and Tom "Smoker" Smith captured the 3,400-pound title in the L.P Steuart Plymouth.

In addition, the fans were treated to wheelstand runs by Bill Shrewsberry in the Hurst Hemi-Under Glass Plymouth Barracuda and by Bud Faubel's "Honker" turbocharged Dodge which ran 147-mph while lighting the tires nearly the entire quarter mile.

Obviously, the race was a whopping success and there were plans for more. Even Super Stock's competitors picked up on the success of the race. Two weeks later, Cars magazine hosted its first championship Super Stock meet at Cecil County Dragaway, utilizing the same type of fuel, wheelbase, and weight restrictions sans the Handicap and Heads-Up Eliminators.