Then just call them Limited Late Models and go race. In the old days when you wanted a different car or motor, you moved up a class, now everyone just wants to move the whole class up. Then you have to start the original class over again, and have more classes with small counts in each.

I think the steel roofs should stay.. Other than that as long as it fits the EW rules it shouldnt matter.  Maybe a tight pillar rule, like the ones the guys ran in the 90s, would help distinguish the cars from complete latemodels. Im not sure how we decide what is considered a wedge nose or whats a slope.  If steel came painted there would be an argument to keep steel.  It's just not out there.

I do not see what the big problem really is. The chassis will stay the same, the engine package rules will stay the same, it's only the body for crying out loud! Nobody is forced to run any specific body. If you guys still want to go to a wrecking yard and take your torches, and plasma cutters, go for it, nobody is saying you can't. The cars still weigh 3,000 lbs. Lee is right, how longs it been since you've seen very many 1974 Camaro's roaming the streets. The Hobby Stocks of today are the Street Stocks of 7-8 years ago. Things change, rules change. All we as racers can do is to try and better the class for the fans, promoters and ourselves. If that is by just allowing different bodies in a class and is not even being forced upon anyone, I just do not see the problem.

I agree with both Daves.

I'm sure everyone is tired of hearing this from me, but here it is again.

From dictionary.com

stock car
n.
1. An automobile of a standard make modified for racing.
2. A railroad car for carrying livestock.

I think we still fit definition #1. I also generally think stock cars have fenders. Don't forget that many places still call "late models" - "late model stocks".

We still run street tires, so in theory, we could still be "street stocks".

Is there anyone out there that actually drove thier "street stock" to the track in the last 10 years, on a regular basis? I know it was common to do it back in the day, but I don't think so much lately.

Changing the name doesn't change anything, but the name. It still costs the same and the same people are going to race the same class.

Here is what I was thinking.... I think Super Stock or Pro Stock works. If you call it Limited Late Model you end up with guys that want to get their old Stock Clip cars in and then someone will find one of the Cox Bros. old GRT cars and it will never end.

I'm in the process of getting an old Watsonville SS ready to come and run some races with EW and don't know what to do about a body. I like the Aluminum deal as long as the cars look like what they do now. My car has a fiberglass roof but I don't object to finding something steel. Any chance we can keep the cars from evolving into something that people can't afford to run? I mean, we alrady have Late Models. Super Stocks looks like a fun place to be!

Now we need Northern cars on the same page as you EW guys!

I hadn't seen one yet. I just assumed they all looked like like Denman's, Jensen's, Cardoza's....


Bummer!

Where is Randy Gray when we need him?

I believe the SS rule is 78 but I could be wrong. My car is 72ish (Pre-dents)

ST_ODIE wrote on 11/21/06 at 10:09am:


they will odie, they will look like dirt stockcars

They were all late models, If you want to be late models there is already a class.

http://www.imca.com/rules.php?divisionid=22  

Looking at this on the surface looks like a full blown latemodel but it really isnt if you look at it.  It looks pretty good with a couple small adjusments..