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Originally Posted by stockracer
Alan...Being as I wasnt there, and only have second hand info, your could be right...But from the way that arts car/cars are described to me...It was my assumption, based on appearance and et that to build a car of this caliber, 200,000 wasnt a bad guess...I mean if you have to spend 100,000 on a cavalier that runs a small block GT class, whats a big block muscle car cost to build? It was only my assumption...
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You didn't read my post. I said there weren't any $200K cars in TOP STOCK. I did not mention TOP SUPER STOCK.
There probably aren't ANY of the really fast cars in SUPER STOCK, capable of running Top SUPER STOCK that are not VERY expensive. Art's cars, that were in Top Super Stock, are both Corvettes, and sure, they're expensive. So was the Mopar that won. Any A, B, C, or really, even D class car is going to be expensive.
Still, the crowd loved BOTH Top Super Stock AND Top Stock, and the fast cars in Top Stock were generally under $50K. The guys who raced it had a blast. For a race with a VERY weak turnout, due as much to a holiday weekend, the two classes did well. It should be VERY obvious to anyone who is actually paying attention, and has any real knowledge, that the Top Stock and Top Super Stock program is VERY good for sportsman racers, look at the class car count in Division 1.
And the way the two classes are to be run, they do not take anything away from Stock OR Super Stock. They are bonus races. Not one thin dime of money is taken from the regular classes, none. They (the other Stock and Super Stock cars)do not get shorted a time trial either. Or a parking space. And since the cars running Top Stock and Top Super Stock have to run "on kill" in order to win, they aren't getting an EXTRA time shot either. Trust me, I was there, and working on a Top Stock car, AND I put my money where my mouth is and put up money towards the purse. We WORKED to run Top Stock, every single qualifying shot, and it didn't do a thing for our regular program. We just had fun running an extra race and trying to go fast with no breakout.