[11] Instead Hiss moved to the United States Auto Club Stock Car series,[12] running five races over the course of the remainder of the year.
[14] Later that year, Hiss entered the 1976 season finale for the NASCAR Winston Cup Series, the Los Angeles Times 500 at Ontario Motor Speedway in the No.
38 Let's Dine Out Chevrolet Monte Carlo owned by Tom Williams (whom Hiss had previously driven for in USAC[13]), but failed to qualify.
"[4] Bobby Unser, who won the Phoenix race,[10] blamed the press for pressuring USAC to allow Hiss to run.
[17] He remarked on Hiss, "It's a sad day when some woman gets in a car and pokes around the track slower than anybody else and then all the writers and television cameras crowd around her and ignore the professionals.
[1] Drivers discussed boycotting the next series event, at Trenton Speedway, if Hiss was allowed to compete, due to her being considered "dangerously slow".
[18] However, Hiss said most drivers were supportive, and that A. J. Foyt "told everybody what a fine job I'd done" after her first USAC Stock Car race in Texas, while she and Unser later became friends.