[Dwight Southerland]

First of all, I am not a purist about this issue. Having been bounced in tech at the US Nationals for a Chevelle that had the sway bar installed upside down and seen a '56 Chev bounced because it had '55 sun visors, I would not wish that level of scrutiny ever again. However, Ron, I took exception at describing the issue of correct representation of car models in stock eliminator as "meaningless". I liked Greg's statement that "All efforts to make it legitimately correct should be made.", although I would condition it to say "all REASONABLE efforts". What I do not want to see happen is that the attitude become one of "as long as it mostly looks like a (fill in the blank of year-make-model), it's okay", especially when some one intentionally picks and chooses stuff to gain an advantage. Heaven knows that "the advantage" is the Holy Grail of so many racers that is it easy to step over the line of selling the integrity of the Eliminator for it, actual or not. I believe we all fight for that.

Ron, I do keep up with the specs of the new cars. I lived through the 60s, the other era of so many special issue factory cars, and know how difficult it is to establish what was and wasn't in regard to those cars. Hopefully, 50 years from now, we will have better documentation for this set of extraordinary race specific vehicle than we have for that earlier era.