I agree whole heartedly with you on the character aspect but again at what price? We have wonderful division at a great track and it's supported by allot of other divisions. But man it's tough to keep things relavent with 30 year old cars. Does newer stuff attract more people? how come Legends really never took off around here? I'm not implying anything I'm asking. My sponsors loved our Metric with the 5 Star Body but nobody really likes the Camaro nearly as much. Everybody thought the JR Latemodel Monte we had was scream and most people who looked at a picture of thought it was a real full size car! If perception is reality how are people (the fans) percieving the Super Stocks accept for us old guys who has seen a Nova on the street lately 😮 any way just spit balling for what might be in a few years from now.
dosen't Perormance bodies have camaro bodies/parts in the circle track ads, I think the SS/Thunder car classes bodies should be at least 10 years old becouse the last thing we want to do is confuze the fans and have the SS class be known as the slow Late Models, however you are going to run out of metric frames at sometime too so what will we do then.
That one was tried and disallowed :-[ I'm thinking that might need to be revisted. As far as metrics go there is a bit of a shortfall with them. They are available in some what reasonable numbers but that will soon dry up as you say. Those G-bodied cars are destined to be the new muscle-cars. Ithink if you could recycle an old LM or cascar or whatever into a decent car with an aftermarket body that's going to keep the supply of cars readily available and cost effective. In the US several different things are being tried with good reception and acceptability.
www.springportmotorspeedway.com
Springport is running what they call the "ABC Stockcar Series".
Sportsman stockcars (like the car that started this thread) to Thunder style cars, and anything in between.
Regardless of what kind of car you have, you race with a group with similar qualifing times.
A B C and even D features as car count allows.
Outside of a superlatemodel, just about any full bodied stock car will be legal to race, very minimum rules.
Seems they have quite a bit of attention and interest.....time will tell.
Any body ever seen these babies?
http://www.arbodies.com/ngb/ngbbodypackages.html
Personally I don't like the look of the above car.
As for where are we going. I personally like the Monte (which were made untl '88 in a RWD platform). All you really need to build one is a front clip, well any clip, then a full tube chassie (why not, quicker and earier than dealing with old rusted crap).
They you call Five Star or your local parts guy and buy this.
I also talked to Jeff W about the S2 Bodies from FiveStar.
http://www.fivestarbodies.com/bodyscat/S2.pdf
>>>it'll take a bit to down load sorry<<<
For $2k the time you save messing with crappy metal, fabricating, etc makes it worth while. A FiveStar Monte body (skins) was about $1000 so another $1000 for a full kit is a good deal, at the end of the first year you just replace the parts that need it. Like you all do now, but in less than 1/2 the time. There is no performance advantage, just a newer body. It'll happen some day, there is a reason we aren't running cars from the 40's, 50's, 60's and only a few from the 70's and 80's. Think about it.