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Originally Posted by Jeff Lee
Keep things the way they are?
I'm wondering if the SS/GT class was created (in part) because the 40 year old bodies were getting hard / expensive to come by?
Take the same gripes about aluminum heads and apply it to the GT classes. Seems like the issues are nearly identical.
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The Super Stock Gt cars were created because Nhra and the oem manufacturers needed to showcase the new body styles that were comming out of Detroit in the early 1980's. Nhra has always sought the manufacturers for sponsorship money and many Super Stock racers were opting to build older cars instead of the newer Smog motor combos. Newer engine combos were fewer and so Nhra decided to allow the older engines to be mated to a newer body style, offering more combinations and offering the racers the option of racing an engine that was already developed. I have never heard of a lack of older bodies was the reason for the GT classes being created, after all look how many SS/AH hemi cars are in the mix and many of them are clones. If you have enough money you can find an older body, same with head castings.