Yeah, I reckin some guys don't really think they're racin unless they drive some sort of Musclecar or at least something that is sorta sporty lookin.
Gotta admit that I don't particular like to see SOME of the cars on the track, which are racing today. It's not so much just the family sedan "grocery getter" type body styles. It's those really ugly compact type, "economy" cars that were REALLY slow & really ugly & the 1st ones to wear out & be junked, all over the country.
Not gonna mention any particular car or body style(except Pontiac), for fear of offending some non-Pontiac guy.
I actually don't think that '77 Catalina looks half bad, in race form. I actually like it better than the '77 Lemans body style. As many here know, he built one of those too. I think Dave Ribeiro has it now.
There have been several of those '77 Lemans Stockers that have done pretty good. The Kyle Riley "Who's Next" car comes to mind.
I remember back when the Pontiac A-body changed, from '72 over to the new style, in '73. I thought those '73's were about the ugliest Pontiac I'd ever seen. It's the rounded off tail section that looks bad, to me. I've always thought the '73 GTO was the ugliest ever made.
I like the Grand Am nose pretty good. IIRC, Don Elgin & Don Turk ran the GA nose. Carroll Warling has run both a GA & a Lemans nose on his record holding '74 SS car.
Tommy Brown runs a Lemans nose on his '74. There may be others I'm forgetting, or just don't know about.
The '73-'77 A-body I'd like to run is a '77 Can-Am. Don't remember ever seeing a pic of a serious Can-Am Stocker. As of right now, the '77 Bird is the only '77 body that takes a big hit from NHRA. So, that means that any '77 body should be more competitive than a Bird. But the Birds just LOOK so much better & faster.
Hey, as the old saying goes: "Looks ain't everything". Another saying is: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder".
