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Old 12-19-2013, 10:36 AM   #242
Mike Taylor 3601
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Default Re: OLD Modified Corvettes

I loved modified back in the day and when I grew up that is what I wanted to race,but I been around this my whole life and I know what it cost and now of what it cost back in the day,everything you put out there is correct,and if start allowing vac.pumps,ext.oil pumps,anything besides the spec head,then it is useless to even do it ,just go ahead and build ?/SM and run in comp.
Even with these restrictions in all honesty it still would not be cheap,I would say it would cost somewhere between stock/super stock,I say more than lower class stocker,about even w/higher classed stocker,less than higher classed ss or ss/mod about even w/lower classed ss'er, but changes would not be coming up every year if rules were left alone.

I would say that if modified had survived today as it was, it would cost as much or more than comp,
comp has cic,modified had nothing to keep it in check. In some aspects mod still lives,some in SS,some in comp, SS/?M is pretty much ?/MP car ?/SM is close to ?/Gas
?/A in comp is close to altered classes were in mod. dragster classes are in comp.along with econo classes
Could anyone comment on engine/cylinder heads$in 70's,my Dad always told me when welded heads,came about is when cost really started going wild.
He told me some prices of short block's,welded heads in early 70's that some guys were getting,just curious to hear others figures.

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