[Scotty D]

rich you are right about the times and how hard you had to work and how much money it took to campaign one of these cars,but alot of us have fond memories of these cars and always will.you are a glass half empty kind of guy and the rest of us are the half full kind.on a scale comparison it would be like trying to run a comp car now,but as mike kenner said everything is so much more bullet proof compared to what was used back then.i know guys that run stick cars in the umtr that work on them less than you work on your dragster.the director of the south chapter has a 79 z-28 that weighs in at 3400 lbs and runs 9.40's at 142 and 60ft at 1.29 he's put over 400 passes on the rearend and trans with no problems.also david manning runs superstock in one of those home built ones and runs fast enough to get in the field, so the beauty is in the eye of the beholder and can be done both ways.in todays times with the quality of the parts out there it would be much cheaper to run one of these cars.the difference in cost now is driven up by the 18 to 10 degree heads and manifolds, if some one were to resurrect this class and limit the cylinder heads to keep the cost down it could be affordable for someone to put together one and run it.maybe the fans and the fun would come back to drag racing.