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Originally Posted by Dean Roberts
I will agree with Don.
Alan, how many ZL-1 Camaros and Vettes have you seen driving around lately? There are many Stockers, albeit cool ones, that were built in limited numbers. Please show me where the rules were re-written? The DPs and CJs are produced and certified. Maybe not for the street, but Stockers never had to be, on 50 had to be built of a certain body style.
We get it, they are underrated and many racers are unhappy. But as you can see, the cars are taking hits on a regular basis and it will all work out.
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Certified for what? You cannot license them for street use. You could get tags (license plates) for a ZL1 Camaro, a Thunderbolt, a Shelby, or any number of other cars. You cannot get tags for a new DP Challenger. You cannot get tags for a new crate motor Mustang. A DP Challenger isn't even a complete car, and Chrysler doesn't even have a street legal Challenger in the guide at that weight. You can bring up the ZL-1 all you want, but those cars could be
driven home from the dealer, and
legally tagged for street use. They were assembled, complete, with all street equipment, ready to drive, when you bought them. You don't see them because there were 69 built, 36 survive, and they're worth about $500K each.
How many crate motor 352 or 428 Mustangs do you see on the street, legally, with tags?
NONE. How many of the Drag Pack Challengers do you see, on the street, legally, with tags?
NONE. And they're only a year or two old, not 40 year old priceless collectible cars. Drag Packs aren't even produced, you can't even drive them. Hell, at least the old Ford cars, even the ones built at Dearborn Steel Tubing, or what ever place Ford contracted to build them, came complete and able to move under their own power. You can't even buy one of the crate motor cars running and driving. That's a major change from how Stock Eliminator once was.
Like I said, we now have cars in Stock Eliminator that the factory not only never assembled, but they have engines that were never even available in a complete car, period. We have cars that were never even built in the guide at weights they were never sold at. I suppose anything goes.