[art leong]

I wonder if there was an internet forum back in the mid 1950's. What we would be looking at? All the flathead guys screaming about those evil overhead valve motors?
In the 70's we had 2 years a go fast racing. In division 1 there was the Hershlow and Morlock Pontiac firebird super duty 455. (You could not get parts for the motor without a vin number). It was factored at some rediculously low number. And could run a week under. They were not in our class but, this was go fast racing. They had a stock eliminator race every week at Englishtown. And the only time we stood a shot at winning was when they were not there.
We belly-ached about them a bit (everybody did). But we worked our butts off and learned a lot of invaluable info. Now REMEMBER I said worked our butts off not spent our butts off.
Back then nhra had a 10 year rule on stockers. Think about how many stockers there would be now if they had kept that rule in force. Then I could see a true top stock (rwd cars) and a jr stock (fwd cars)
The Mustangs Camaros and Firebirds etc. would be running each other. and the SLOW (turd) cars could run each other. That would have cut the number of classes (to make a lot of you very happy} Kept factory involvement ( 10 year rule).
I'm not advocating a change like this but this is what could have been. All this complaining could lead to something you really don't want.
It seems like easiest way to beat someone is on the keyboard, not on the race track. When I ran the turbo cars, people lambasted them (and still do) I posted exactly how to make them run for very little expense. No black-magic, hocus pocus, hide it in the trailer stuff. Still many of you said I shouldn't be allowed to race. Even though my car was more "stock" than any out there. It was fine to come rolling into the track with a $100,000 "A" stocker in a tractor trailer rig. But "Arties" $2000 car should be banned.
I think these "new" cars will dominate the class for a while. Didn't the LT 1's do the same?