[J.R. Haddad]

Dawson, I've enjoyed watching the results of your poll so far. It's interesting,
a lot of us think of ourselves as Stock Purists, which really means old,
and some are up in arms about the trans and rear end in this project.
Yet, I can build a 1956 Chevrolet for Stock Eliminator, and put in a 12 Bolt
Rear, and a metric 200 3 speed trans, neither were available to that car.
If we want Stock to live, and we do, then newer style cars will have to
continue to be introduced to the eliminator. To make most of them
raceable, we can't have tiny, complicated 10 speed automatics, rear ends
that won't survive a burnout, etc. Perhaps the "New" Purists will have to learn that the body and motor have to be pure, but any automotive rear
end, and transmission with 3 forward gears are the future.

J.R.