I guess it all depends on what you call inexpensive but aftermarket body panels are available. They don't fit great for a restoration but for Stockcars they should work.
This site has pricing but I know you can get any and all these at CBS in London on Bathurst. If you get to be a regular customer you can haggle with them also but I'm probably telling you guys stuff you already know.
Ernie I did some web research and Cross-Canada is way cheaper with a better range of parts. Personally if you want to keep things in perspective price wise a new JR Latemodel is going to run $10K so it's all on how you look at it
one theme on some of the American boards regarding this same topic is that some teams claim it's a lot easier to show off a 2008 Monte Carlo (for example), than a 1978 Nova, to any potential sponsor.................
it is for sure...i know my sponsor prefers the loook of my car over the others in the class...he says it looks like a race car....
SS right now still to a certain extent holds onto the 'stock' feeling that us old guys remember and love. I would hate to see it turn into what amounts to another LM division. I know there is nothing stock about these cars but then again there hasn't been a monte carlo made with rear wheel drive since the seventies. If you could mount all the stock sheet metal (what there is of it these days) onto an existing SS chassis then you could move forward with the division and hold onto some traditional looking cars. Turning SS into LM or a kit car series would remove the character that the division has now.