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Originally Posted by Rory McNeil
Mr. Kershaw, Why do you say the without the "package" cars, the NHRA did not have a way for late models cars to compete in NHRA Stock Eliminator? New, production cars had been racing in stock for many decades, Ford, Chevy & Dodge did have high performance production versions of the Mustang, Camaro & Challanger available to the public for years before the Cobra Jet, COPO & Drag Packs were invented, just like they were in the 60s and early 70s.
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Bingo.
And although most people want to remember the "muscle" cars from the '60s as being fast (relative to late-model cars), vintage road tests reveal that most of them would have a hard time getting past a completely stock 2018 4-cylinder auto trans Mustang in a heads-up race.