[Bruce Noland]

Fun with a National Event in 2013 or thereabouts:

Announcer:
"Ok, next up we have Stock Eliminator. Today we have a qualified field of 64 cars in the staging lanes. Now all these cars may appear to be very similar or even identical in some cases but I can assure you they absolutely are not. For the record, about half of them are Challengers and the other half are Mustangs. Great looking cars aren't they. Although they all may look very similar, I can guarantee you they aren't. Look at all the different paint jobs with the great graphics."

"Well now, here is our first pair, of er uh Mustangs, now look at the wheels on these cars and tell me that we aren't looking at highly differentiated race cars. The Mustang in the left lane has Weld wheels with custom graphics and the Mustang in the right lane went for the classic look with no graphics and MT wheels. Wow what a race. And next up we have a Challenger and a Mustang going at it - some great OEM competition here folks. Notice the racing stripes on both cars. The red Chally has opted for white racing stripes while the black Mustang has opted for big old honk'n gold stripes...Whoaaa."

Now, 30 pairs later...... "we'll wrap up this round by watching a pair of Challengers square off. Now tell me this isn't neat ladies and gentlemen - we started this round with a pair of Mustangs and we are finishing up with a pair of Challengers...how about that." "Who would'a thunk it."

Old saying: People who embrace a dictated future will suffer a fool's result.