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At what point did Nascar stop being a “stock car” series?
Back in the day the cars that ran the Nascar Series‘ looked at least similair to a car that you could buy off of a showroom floor. In the 80′s the aero bodies were showing up. 20 years later Nascar has the COT, which are based off of the Fusion, Impala, Camry and Charger. None of these 2009 cars are V-8 nor are any of them rear wheel drive and all are 4 doors. How then do these cars fit into “stock car” racing?
http://www.chevrolet.com/impala/
http://www.fordvehicles.com/cars/fusion/models/index.asp
http://www.dodge.com/hostc/vsmc/vehicleSpecModels.do?modelYearCode=CUD200904
http://www.toyota.com/camry/trims-prices.html
I agree lenny. It doesn’t really matter to me either.
“Back in the day” the cars that raced were just as they came from the showroom floor.. The only thing you could change was the tires.. They didn’t even require safety equipment..
The changes happened very gradually, most of them involved safety issues, but were often interpreted in a way that enhanced performance.. An example was the new rule that allowed cross members to be installed behind the engine, in the new “uni body” cars, so the engine couldn’t be pushed back into the drivers lap.. This small thing grew into a roll cage, which enhanced chassis stiffness, allowing the engines to grow to enormous horse power because the stiffer chassis could handle it..
Then when the car manufacturers began offering models, with options because they raced well, such as the Super Bee.. The last of these came along in ’78, with the slanted rear window on the Monte Carlo..
Now by this time the “roll cage” had developed into a tube chassis, and because the rules said they had to use the original body, something needed to be done to reduce weight.. Penske had developed a technique for other types of racing called “chem milling”.. They would take the original body, and dip it in acid, until the sheet metal was not much thicker than aluminum foil.. Now the teams could build an entire real Race Car, and make it look just like a street car.. in the late eighties NASCAR gave them permission to build what amounted to race cars, that were 7/8 replicas of the street cars they were supposed to be.. Early nineties they gave Ford permission to us a four door car for the first time, and allowed them to play with the shape, while still clinging to a couple of OEM parts.(the windshield was the last to go).. After that through politics, the manufacturers got concessions from NASCAR to make aero changes that were not on the street cars, and each time there was a concession by NASCAR, the other manufacturers would cry, and it went on, and on for a long time.. Now we have the COT, and they all race the same thing, and the fans are under no illusion that they can buy one of these beasts, and drive it home..
The Dodge Charger is in fact a front engine V8, with rear wheel drive.. Of course it doesn’t resemble the COT..
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