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Originally Posted by X-TECH MAN
Yes Bill.....The average younger male has no interest in the older generations car culture. The majority prefer the s##t boxes with fart can mufflers or a 4 wheel drive pickup jacked up so far as to make your nose bleed. . Just about the only younger guys drag racing a stocker or super stock car these days is the off spring of an older car guy like us. I doubt you will ever see a "Magazine" car like the 413 Plymouth Ray Brock ran in 1962 for Hot Rod Magazine. Can you imagine Super Ford Magazine competing with a 2010 blown Mustang and they even have a good stocker racer on their staff. Never happen in todays world. It is what it is today. Thats why I subscribe to Corvette Fever and Rod and Custom mags today.
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The younger generation have their own car culture and it is not imports. The import racing scene just about disappeared once they found out drag racing is expensive and requires hard work.
There are several sanctioning organizations that sponsor racing events comprised of several heads up classes of bodied cars along with handicap racing classes for those wanting that sort of thing. The heads up class rules reflect what the younger crowd wants and unfortunatly (or not) i is not nhra classes. They like power adders and modified suspensions and stock appearing bodies. If they ran some races nearer the middle of the country I would join them. I prefer running all motor but I can adapt unlike most of my fellow old farts. I have to admit it would be a lot easier building a car to their rules because it does not require innovative interpretation of the rules (cheating) to be competitive, Just to be clear, I do not think most of the class racers are cheating but I am sure some of them are, I know what to do the make a pair of "stock" cylinder heads cost thousands of dollars and go faster than most but I choose not to go there
I have seen some articles about the new class engines but they are not very in depth, probably because there is not a lot of interest in NHRA style racing among their readers.
Then there is Mustang racing. There is even a sanctioning body just for mustangs. You GM and Mopar guys don't wat to see this so you dont.