Sounds like we need to breed more 348-409 powered cars and release them into the wild to breed others. I have a catch and release system of my own but I need everyone's help spread the 348-409 love!Paul, we all appreciate your efforts and I wish I had a solution. The venue has been terrific every time, and the area has everything we could want. I think that the distances are part of it, and the relatively small number of cars leaves us on the edge every year.
I had hoped that we would see some new folks gradually join the group. I can't believe the lack of CA cars, I know they are out there somewhere. I have noticed around here that most of the W cars I see are car show types, and they don't abuse them much.
Go figure?
Why not 58-65 for years to include. Seems fitting with the number of 348s made back then.Maybe your screen name is a clue! Something like a somewhat looser vintage/nostalgia Super Stock event. Most of the rules I have seen are too strict for our crowd (JMO) but if we opened it up to full-size Detroit cars, 60-65 or so, period correct V8s etc. maybe it could happen. I know adding Fords, Pontiacs and Mopars might be a tough pill to swallow, but those guys might have some interest. Rules would always be problematic, but we could always start out by breaking up street cars and race cars, just to see how it goes. Not an original thought, just groping.
Just remember the mopars are trying to re-live the glory days they finally had after chevy pulled out of racing. I always like to remind the mopar guys that if chevy wouldn't have gotten bored with racing there would have been 600ci big blocks back in 1963 and the HEMI's would be another cute little motor that no one remembers. You can only run circles around the competition for so long then it gets boring. Even today people buy a car simply because the plastic badge on the side says HEMI. That's nice but my 1997 Toyota then would also have a 4 cylinder HEMI in it. Chrysler Corp didn't even invent the HEMI the Welch Brothers did and they were bought by non-other than GM and discontinued in 1910. LOL! All mopar guys will say how great their cars were "back in the day" but that day was after chevy already had their day. I've heard so many people say a 409 or Z11 show up to race and the competition would simply go home. The mopar community is obsessed with 1964 and later but in my opinion the muscle car wars were over with and the pony wars were just getting kicked off.Sure, that makes sense. "Big Car Brawl" . I am sure the "other guys" are struggling to do the same thing to some extent, although those pesky Mopars always seem to pull in cars.
If I remember right though... The crowds at drag racing were 10 times that of Nascar back then. I still think to many people had their collective head up their butt at GM and didn't consider what the history books would say about them walking away from "Race on Sunday and Sell on Monday". Plus if Gm was really interested in "keeping up with the Jones's", they could have simply taken on the Hemi design heads themselves and continued. They had to many irons in the fire and no way to keep up with all of the changes going on at that time. Completely new chevy body styles and design of engines means they had their hands full. Thankfully they waited to change much on the Vettes at that time.Yes Randy,but the Nascar market was far more lucrative at the time and they had a limit of 430 cubic inches back then.I hated the fact that GM bowed to political pressure like they did back then and pulled out of racing.I loved the advent of the Hemi simply because it made the Ford guys cry so much.