There are a couple of tracks out west where they have gone to cutting the bodies off older rear wheel drive chassis and mounting newer stock steel front wheel drive bodies on them for there SS class. Not to many really good options for the low buck guy.
The bodies look great but the cost would diminish the car count. Like Wernham says not many ss teams could afford this expense. From what I understand there is fiberglass fenders available for the nova/ventura style cars. We already have the fiberglass front spoiler. Doors are fairly easy to fabricate and rear quarters are available at a reasonable cost. I agree with Shadow about the uniuqeness? of our division. I would rather see us left as is. The ss division is one of the strongest as far as car count goes and one of the most competitve in ontario in my opinion, which is a little biased of course.
and with tracks that all have different rules!! 😮 😮 😮
The way it looks right now,if you build a car to one tracks rules,you pretty much have to stay there!Sunsets super street with all the bells and whistles wont be welcomed at Kawartha on a regular basis
The Novas are lucky to have a source for fiberglass parts (stock?) but no such luck if you run a Camaro. With the Camaro's you need search high and low for parts. I've had only three in 2 years.
I agree with the nostagalia pount of view but these cars are 30 years old and good usable parts are expensive so I'm not buying the cost arguement. I've just cut apart a Camaro this week for parts and breathing the toxic fumes cutting this POS up is total crap. Not too mention the intial cost of the car and having to drive 2 hours to get it. The inevitable is going to be just that inevitable, we are going to run out of donor cars eventually, why do you think we can run ex hooters and cascar stuff? cause there are no cars left! As far driving people out of the sport due to cost that's a little bit reactionary, as we have $1200 in a rearend!! that is now pretty much obsolete. Change is a bitter pill!! As a point, I'm not wanting to change anything I'm merely pointing out it is going to come to a day where it will happen. The question is when do we start to embrace the change, when do we see what the ramifications of that change are if any? Do you think a bodies such as that is going to have a performance difference? And most importantly what is going to be the reaction of the fans?
Just a thought...wouldn't it be cool if we could do "newfangled" and "vintage" in the same swoop, and find someone who'll supply fiberglass re-pops of 57 Bel-Airs and stuff?
To the eyes of your average Joe Race Fan, SS could almost be seen as a retro division anyway. Back in the 70s the guys were running coupe bodies that were just as old then as these Novas and Camaros are now, and I'm always surprised that they don't play up the older muscle car angle more often.
Just saying. 😉