[B Parker]

I for one like seeing the new cars out there. I have been racing stock as long or longer than most of you. And as anyone that knows my brother and myself we always try to be the fastest in the class. Our class if it's going to survive long term needs a way to get new cars and new people invovled. How can seeing Big Daddy in a car be bad for us. Guys like him will bring more press to our class than anything we could do. If we stick with the deal about how many cars needed to be built in order to run stock than our class will die a slow death. Terry lets face it they just aren't building the cars they did in the 60's threw the 80's. You either go with the times or get left behind. The only problem as we all know is the soft Hp ratings. Even when I looked at the new combo's I never though that I would see one of them able to run 9.79 at 135.63 in C/SA at Indy. If NHRA puts a hp rating that is close to where it should be then I for one think this is a great thing for stock. If they don't then it could also hurt our class badly. Charlie I also agree that the new cars need a slight advantage or no one would invest the kind of money it cost to build one. ( Excluding you of course) I just want us old car useres to be able to bring a knife to a gun fight instead of a rubber band. And Charlie as smart as you are you know there is a big difference between the P T Cruiser and the rest of the cars. If not just give John Shaul or Bryan Phillips a call.