[Alan Roehrich]

NASCAR started dying when they decided to start letting manufacturers run cars that did not fit the rules, and alter the bodies dramatically to fit. It started with the GM G bodies fitting the rules in the eighties, but the Thunderbird didn't, so NASCAR let Ford run it anyway. Then the next thing you know, there were stupid looking ugly 4 door front wheel drive "cars" out there. So the cars no longer looked like the cars fans drove or wanted. Once you begin perverting something like that, it's the beginning of the end. Funny Car is the only exception.