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Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich
The thing is, you're wrong. Because there were only a very few of A cars able to go 9.90's in decent air, and only a very few AA cars capable of going 9.60's in decent air. Now there are a couple dozen, at least. The average A car was a ten-teen car, and the average AA car was a 9.80 car in decent air. So a guy with an average car had a shot. so long as he didn't run into one of the few. Now the few are many, and the average guy is ten times more likely to meet one.
Many of us could race for years, and have, without ever seeing one of the really fast 427 cars like the Sorensons or DeArmond, or even one of the other killer cars like Shaul, Holroyd, DeFrank or the others. You're assuming that only the fastest of the traditional combinations lost anything. That assumption has no merit.
If you already had $50K or so invested in an average A or AA car and you can't pony up $80K+ for a new car, you're well behind the 8 ball, with little chance to catch up.
Another thing is that people believe you can just go out and buy a killer engine from a top name builder and you have an instant 1.1-1.2 under car. Nothing could be further from the truth. The average guy, given Joe and Hal's car, or Bobby's car, in pieces, with just the engine built, would barely run 1 under with it if/when they got it together.
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Isn't that the point of heads-up class racing, to be faster than the other guys no matter what? And hasn't it always been that the one with the most money or talent will win? What about the "old days" when the factories were sending out ringer cars all the time? Are things really any different now?
The CJ's are well on the way to SS only, and the 6.1 Hemi will probably not be too far behind. The 5.7 and 5.9 will be getting a present shortly too.
I think trying to sell off my car now is a tad premature.