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Originally Posted by Billy Nees
I wouldn't say "obsessed" with it. There just aren't enough Stick cars running anymore and with the HP factors being done the way they are it just seems like common sense to me. More so than going to one pound weight breaks after thinking about Yac's post.
"Honestly" if you feel that the "pure factory race cars should be in their own completely separate classes" then IMHO they should be in SS where they belong along with all of the other "pure factory race cars". You know, like the Race Hemis, the Thunderbolts and the 427 Camaros. But I'm guessing that somebody will just come on here and tell me that , "we can't go back, mistakes were made, live with it".
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The Cuda's and Darts are in Super Stock.
The difference between some of the cars of old and the new factory race cars has been rehashed here a thousand times.Most of the older factory hot rods were not 4-5 times as expensive as the pedestrian street cars, even the ZL-1 was only about 3 times higher. A new factory race car is over $100,000. Most of the older cars came with full legal equipment, and a VIN. The new factory race cars come with none of that.
In all honesty, many of the factory race cars are truly "paper cars", some of the engines were never even built or available at all. Many of the ones that were, were never sold in sufficient quantity to meet the old rules. The old stuff is held to a higher standard. The best example is the 67 L-88. We know 36 were built, and sold by dealers, and we know a bunch went out the "back door" in the form of parts, etc. Some new Fords were never even built, not even one, and with Chevrolet selling 69 COPO cars a year, there weren't even 36 of many combinations built, there weren't even 50 built of some over 2-3 years. You can race all of them. But you can't race a 67 L-88 Corvette.