[Bruce Noland]

The Firebirds may have been as much as 40 Horsepower soft. It took awhile before they became fast and nhra split them out until the ahfs had a chance to catch up with them. But the new CJ is a pony of a different color and should be fairly classified in a Factory class. The Firebirds were Factory Performance cars as opposed to the Purpose Built CJ for Racing only. The CJ is a purpose built race car that is 150 Horsepower soft. I know you Ford guys think we are picking on, crying, bitching and complaining about the CJs but you can bet you butts that most of us would be angry with any OEM trying to pull off a stunt like this.

Some of you guys say the Firebird was soft so why can't we do it. You say stuff like the ahfs will catch up to these cars but you know it will take years. You're not fooling any one. Some of the Ford guys want this car to run against 40 year old Camaros just to humiliate them. It's that simple. But at what price will Ford pay? What is so bad about a factory class for this car? What is so bad about it? None of you ever say why it's a bad idea. The CJs could romp all day long in a Factory class and really strut their stuff without having all the negative push-back. And the negative push-back will continue to come with each new event.

We saw this coming. The Ford guys had this whole project under wraps and still want to keep it that way. But we figured it out weeks before Pomona and put nhra on notice that we knew what they were up to. It's a bad deal for Stock. History will tell.

RJ,
You're right this whole discussion may be a moot point in 90 days.