How long do you think 40 to 50 year old cars can continue to be raced?
 

Just curious - another 20 years?

Or maybe just 10 more

Hell maybe forever

Re: How long do you think 40 to 50 year old cars can continue to be raced?
 

Indefinitely.

Re: How long do you think 40 to 50 year old cars can continue to be raced?
 

Competitively? Ask Dan Fletcher.

Re: How long do you think 40 to 50 year old cars can continue to be raced?
 

Until they pry it from my cold dead hands.

Re: How long do you think 40 to 50 year old cars can continue to be raced?
 

As long as the 50,60 and 70 year old drivers can stand it.

Jeff Colvert SS/G 4456, 56

Re: How long do you think 40 to 50 year old cars can continue to be raced?
 

It will all depend on what companies continue to produce parts for these cars. If the parts are there, guys can continue to race, but if the parts become more scarce, they will slowly stop being raced. This is where it will be important for aftermarket companies to take over for OEM's in recasting and reproducing OEM parts.

Re: How long do you think 40 to 50 year old cars can continue to be raced?
 

I know it is not a fair or comparison but if in 1969 - guys were racing 40 year old cars they would have been 1929s - even 20 year old cars would have been 1949s

Does not even seem logical that our cars have lasted this long

I think the EPA and pressure from foreign car makers must have caused a lull in our auto manufacturers development process

These new cars are just beginning to catch up maybe


:-) peace

Re: How long do you think 40 to 50 year old cars can continue to be raced?
 

i would say as long as they are the predominate cars being raced in stock and SS. if they become totall uncompetitve or get legislated out, a lot of racers will not replace them with newer cars. Stock and SS would shrink dramatically. Stock moreso due to the GT cars in SS.

Re: How long do you think 40 to 50 year old cars can continue to be raced?
 

As long as the sun still shines if theres a will theres a way~~~~~~

Re: How long do you think 40 to 50 year old cars can continue to be raced?
 

Interesting comment. But I have always felt more blame should fall to the short-term thinking of business leaders, and the pressure applied by Wall Street that made them respond to EPA emissions requirements as cheaply and quickly as possible. This resulted in those nearly undriveable pieces of crap in the 1970's, with retarded timing and carburetors that lean-surged. Remember how they wouldn't stop running after you turned off the key?

These brand new cars that ran terribly did more to open the door for Japan than anything the Japanese manufacturers did themselves.