[D.Johns]

The earlier cars is what they are looking at that are in the guide. My car will be a ground up car not a turn key car with all work being performed by myself and close friends with shops. I do not have the huge budget that some others have. I've worked for 2 years to become debt free so I could afford to build and go racing debt free because my income would not support loans and racing. The only thing we aren't doing is building the engine that will be farmed out to an engine builder such as Bischoff. A race car is never done. Technology is always growing and everyone's car is getting faster new and old with new technology and new ways of thinking. The modifications that I like to do(personally I'm a supercharged guy) and there wasn't a mustang that was until the 03 Cobra(which is legal). However at the time I wasn't interested in anything but heads-up racing and it's hard to consider stock eliminator heads up. I was considering building an 03-04 cobra up until last year after i started looking at stock eliminator AFTER the CJ was already out. I wasn't interested in the CJ because it was under factored but because that's the type of car I was interested in building. The car caught me because Ford built a car I would have built on my own free will. It qualified for stock eliminator so I started looking at the class and looking at my budget and location. Things just fell into place that way. Ford just built a car that a customer like me wanted to buy. I wouldn't care if they gave it it's own class. In fact personally I think it would be great to let all the new cars duke it out run what you brung heads up! The old cars could be allowed to no problem. I plan on running everything the car fits in to get as much seat time as I can possible afford. Location is the biggest draw for me.
You've got to bring in new blood or else things become stale and dies off after the last generation moves on. The younger guys aren't interested so much into old technology as the newer stuff. I'm 29 I'm not into big blocks or carburetors. I love old cars but in the era Ive grown up in what interest me is fuel injected, forced induction cars. The old cars get my heart pumping no doubt as I love history of the car hobby but interest to build and tinker with I feel at home with the new stuff in my comfort zone.
If you started a petition to move the new cars into their own class in the nhra I'd sign it. As I think it would be awesome to watch the 3 new guys competing. There is always a underlining theme of the ones at the bottom always call foul and demand constant rule changes(which apart from location moaning and groaning from the pushrod guys started my search to race elsewhere). When the modular Mustangs weren't competitive the pushrod guys said "do work son". Then modular engine guys started figuring out how to make power reliably and the pushrod guys didn't want to hear "do work son" but please slap hundreds of pounds on them based off one cars performance at one race, disallow this, allow me that..... I guess it's the norm just doesn't fit my personality style.