[QUOTE=kendo;173593]Just about everything for a G body is reproduced and can be shipped to your door step without setting foot in a scrap yard or even leaving your house,more importantly relatively affordable too.Thats why they are raced at just about every track in the country and aren’t going away any time soon.
As far as mixing 4 cylinders with rear wheel V8,a 16 car field is a big increase in that class compared to 4 cars 2 years ago.It was also interesting to see that half the crowd stayed to watch compared to the stands completely clearing out in the past.
The bigger issue is why there were only 12 sportsman cars and 9 super late models?[/QUOTE]
Actually, the complete 57 Chevy body is being reproduced using the original factory drawings and dimensions, as well as 69 Camaros. Only affordable for the average millionaire, but it shows the incredible interest that’s still out there.
That series had a lot going for it. The car design was cool at from a frame and driveline standpoint, but they could never over-come the fact that the cars were butt-ugly and out of proportion. I believe the club succumbed to internal politics.
No… The Classic Auto Racing Series basically went away because the tracks weren’t willing to pay what we needed to have to stay afloat… All we asked for was $75 per car and we paid our purse and expenses out of that… If anybody remembers, we put on a pretty good show. Certain promoters that were friendly to the Series got out of racing and that left us very few tracks to run at as the “new blood” wanted us to either run for free or at a reduced rate which we would not do as we had a great core group of drivers that deserved better… One of our guys decided to try and keep the Series going and was not successful although Rusty at OSW brought them in as part of the Saturday shows in the early-2000’s with the Legends and other “spec” classes but the Classic guys were basically running for fun…
The cars were built on GM metric frames with a “spec” 305 Chevy engine… The bodies were fiberglass and built to fit directly on a metric GM frame, hence the “wide” look… We did our best to keep costs down, got some old-timers back involved in racing along with a bit of new blood too… The class thrived for several years running not only in Florida but there were clubs in NC, PA, WV, MD and Ohio… Our “Winternationals” each year drew well over 40 cars and we were the lead-in to the November Crash-A-Rama shows at OSW for 3-4 years… The cars still run up in the WV-PA-MD area…
Looking at the picture they had a better car count then most classes . Reason why was cost 305 motor wasn’t that expensive. Just like the crate motors. Like it or not if we didn’t have the crate motors racing right now would have less car counts at all tracks .the guys who had money to build expensive motors helped destroy local racing. a sealed crate motor class with rules inforced will be the only choice for the future like it or not .
