[treessavoy]

Chassis1, I can guarantee that everyone of us started out looking through the fence at the fast and loud cars going down the track before we became racers, then we decided to try it with our street cars and progressed from there. We are not whining, we are stating facts. Dodge and Ford offered ready built racers to people that had a spare $100,000.00 laying around and the NHRA let them tun in Stock thus virtually eliminating all the existing cars in classes E - AA.

In the late '60's Mopar and Ford did the same thing with the race Hemi's and the Thunderbolts and the NHRA immediately put them into SUPER STOCK or FX because they were ready built race cars and not available for street driving.

The question is: Why didn't the NHRA do the same with these new cars ?

Yes, you can dig into you're Max Wedge and sqeeze some more HP but we've been doing that for 45 years and there is nothing left to squeeze and the same goes for the other class cars. Alan crews a '69 427 Camaro, do you think there is almost a second left to squeeze in order to compete with the new cars.....I doubt it.

As for new blood coming into Stock eliminator, most of this new generation can't afford to buy a car to drive much less a $100,000.00 race car and all the support stuff to go with it.

The point is these cars belong in SS or FX rather than Stock because they NEVER were stock!

JimR