Like I said:

What we started doing the last couple of years at North Bay (not that that's saying much) is allow the use of late model body panels on "similar" old cars.  So we started having the Camaro guys cut the car away and replace most of it with body panels from 3rd gen f-bodies (82-92), and Metric guys cut away the front end and most of the rear, and replaced them with fenders/bumper covers/noses from Luminas and Monte Carlos (89-98ish).

When done RIGHT (most were, some were not) the cars looked basically like slightly stretched/more square versions of the 1990s cars.

And god knows there's a ton of Luminas and FWD Monte Carlos in junkyards.

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To me the parts are to hard to find,,and when you do they want big bucks for them.
Then you have to spend to much time and money cutting them apart and I don't know about you but time still is money.
I feel its about time for a change on the body's these cars are going on forty or plus. Maybe 1 kid from every twenty knows what a Nova or a Malibu is.
To me that's not cool for the fan base for the speedway.
I have a 13 & 17 year old sons and they have know interest in s-stocks and I ask why and its the looks of the cars.
Most kids there on a Friday night with parents in stands are between 3 and 15 from the 90's and the 2000's.
So don't you think we should have cars they know today for them to have interest in.
I think that's why my kids like the trucks so much because they see them as drivers everyday on the streets then on Friday nights they see them at the track and they can identify them as a race vehicle.
Old school guys like the older cars like Chevy II and so on,,why because that's what they liked when they were younger and that's what was around at the time.
Don't you think to keep the kids intrested in the sport we have to give them cars they know,, with out the kids we have no sport .
Now you ask a 8 year old what kind of car bumblebee is and I bet you they can tell ya...

I hear you 33. I am one of the guys that like the Chevy IIs and such but how do you bring in the newer body styles and keep to the SS rules or at least the spirit of the rules. There is no new car that can be raced even remotely stock. I know, I know, there isn't really any "stock" racing cars anymore but the SS is as close as we have now (besides the trucks) in higher level local racing series. Even the car pictured to the left, which is from 1969, wasn't "stock" but looked the part. The question is how do you follow the same spirit as the existing SS without just creating a less expensive LLM? I say less expensive but we all know how long that lasts.

Well the mechanical underlyings of the bodies are truly the real expense, not the bodywork. To have the rules restricting the car owners so heavily as to what actual body you can run is somewhat short sighted. Given the fact that suitable bodies are hard to find and if you are forced to spend your money on rust repair panels that are pretty expensive it leaves you less for tires and such. The down force front ends that are currently on some of the Novas are way beyond the scope of the true intention of the stock rules. Novas never came with splitters!!!! The spirit of the no performanced enhancing modifications is well, shall we say blurry? Now I don't think there is a big deal to make about it, but I get alittle annoyed when you here so much bleating about "Stock" I wonder if my Brother in law gave me his '97 monte to cut up if the track or the other competitors would flip if I stuck it on the 'ole camaro chassis. This is the sort of thing that although was in good spirit when the rule was made has new become sort of obsolete. We are in trying times and working with whats economically available is more paramount then ever. The cars need to remain clean and proffesional looking but really is it such a big deal to buy an aftermarket body and slapped it on your 35 year old chassis? I don't think it's going to move the tenth place car in front of leaders!!!

Here's what needs to happen. You open the rules about the bodies. Let the old-school run the old school, and let the new school run the new stuff. That way it makes the majority of the field happy. You let the people with the bucks do the spending, and the ones without do the saving. Their Street stock cars, so everyone knows that there isn't going to be a huge aero advantage. If anyone wants to argue that...you better not be one of those people who hangs stuffed animals from your b-pillar. Another point worth mentioning, lets get Five Star, Performance Bodies or whoever on the phone,and get the ball rolling to release skins for the new Camaro, Mustang, Challenger. Tell me it wouldn't be awesome to see that. 

Just my opinion.