Originally Posted by UncleEd

Back in the day, meaning probably well before you were born,
the fate of many of the Smith stocks was the bin for unwanted
and unliked stuff. Replacement even in the 1960s or
through the 1980s were "custom" stocks or Goodyear
stocks.

So Smith started making Goodyear stocks the norm and
then the buying public wanted the old style stocks back.

The new style Classic stocks are not bad and actually fit my
hand better than the fatter old style stocks that were
standard back when.