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On 11/20/2014 7:19 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 01:13:01 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:53:38 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 11/19/2014 8:06 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:46:05 -0500, KC wrote:

NASCAR has virtually nothing to do with real cars. They use a custom
body with a shape "inspired" by a production car but there is nothing
but the logo that is actually common between them.
These things are built more like airplanes than cars

That's why they don't call 'em 'stock cars' anymore...

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Interesting point. When did they stop calling it stock car racing?

I think the original era of true stock car racing ended in the early
70's. That's when all kinds of rules, regulations, and restrictions
began to become imposed.

I liked it in it's original days. A 390 ci or 427 ci Ford Galaxie was
pretty much what you could buy at the dealership. Same with the 426
hemi "elephant" used in the Plymouths and the 421 ci Pontiac designed
specifically for the stock car racing circuit.

No interest in today's NASCAR racing. It's all about the drivers now,
not the cars.

Well, maybe except for Danica Patrick. :-)

NASCAR racing got it's start from the moonshine runners of the 30's.

Danica probably got more women watching than anything since the racy
Jeff Gordon posters.
Actually the only person I know with a full height Gordon poster is a
gay guy in the neighborhood ... but I am not judging ;-)

My wife will still watch a NASCAR race if Danica is running.
We record it and blast through most of it tho.

Back in the 60s, my 327 325HP slid under a class line that made me
very competitive. With a 456 rear end I was running with just about
anything but a 440 Dodge and some of the 426 Hemis. They were still
not in my class. If they had tall gears, they couldn't catch me in a
quarter. About 105-108 I ran out of RPMs and the valves started to
float.
Next time I went with 308 in my Corvette on a special order and it
would do a solid 145 with a stopwatch in measured miles. The speedo
was 160+. I was also getting 25 MPG or more if I could keep my foot
put of it. That didn't happen much tho.
They really didn't have a speed limit on the beltway in those days, at
least not at night.

There are some motorcyclists here who still believe that - day or
night. A pack will take off from one exit, and whoever gets back first
wins the beer, or whatever. They've come around me doing way over 100
whipping in and out of lanes.

Never saw one on a Moto Guzzi though, nor a Harley.

Do you think our little Harry might have been in the pack? He has one of
those racy little Italian bikes.