Drag Racing Is Dead
"You read about hot rodding and how it is dying. You read that drag racing is dead. You read about drag strips losing money every week and shutting down."
(Joe Oldham editorial March 1968) I have a large collection of magazines from "The Good Old Days" that I love to read. This quote is one I came across this morning. It goes on to talk about a guy with a 1959 Pontiac G/SA that is getting pushed out... |
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That was the 1960 and newer rule to get rid of the pesky sedan delivery with the FI V8 with a different trans and the wrong hood,Twin H Hudson, and the supercharged Fords
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I too have a large collection of old car mags that I read from time to time. It's interesting to see the rise and fall of the economy and regulatory actions that contribute to the opinion drag racing is going to die over the past 50 some years. Will we be aware enough to see the real threats when they come?
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Drag racing in some form I believe will live on but our traditional stock/SS as is has a conclusion date in our lifetime. No tech. lower quotas, no newer model cars in the guide except COPOS, Drag Packs. and Cobra Jets. Maybe a few later model Camaros and Challengers. Plus the tech officials capable of proper enforcement of the rules are waning and many aging out in the not to distant future. I was watching a tape of a past sportsman race where they showed the age of stock/SS active drivers and I bet 80% were over the age of 50. Many younger racers are more into this no prep, twin turbo nonsense than us seasoned racers. Enough rambling.
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Personally, I don't think drag racing will ever completely die out, at least not for quite a long time. Class racing, specifically Stock and Super Stock, are definitely in trouble. While the numbers look good now, the elephant in the room is that I would say more than half of the racers in these classes are over 55. The issue at hand is not only that young people aren't getting into cars, but the cars they are getting into are not very friendly to these classes. Predictably, us young stock/super stock racers communicate regularly through texting, social media, etc. One of the things brought up by multiple fellow racers is the alienization of import cars in class racing. The import car following is huge, especially here in New Jersey. We hear the stories our parents tell about project cars, and most realize the prices are way too high on the sought after muscle cars someone like myself would dream of owning. Instead, they go out and buy something like a Mazda miata, Rx-7, Honda S-2000, Infinity G35,etc. and they "Hot Rod' it. I'm not talking about the typical Atco Dragway Tuesday night "rice burner" crowd with 25 year old civics they put mom's hair dryer on top of, but it would be interesting to see someone be able to build a more modern import street car for stock eliminator, and run against something like a 396 375hp Camaro. I've been told by many adults to just "save my money" and "you'll have plenty of time to go racing when you have a good job 10 years or so from now." The time to go Stock and Super Stock racing is now, so for the past 2 years I've nickled and dimed and begged and pleaded my way into doing as much racing as I can now, before it's too late. Just some food for thought.
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