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Originally Posted by Billy Nees
Jimmy Alund? He's entered as a 70 Nova and it's definitely a 68-69. I've heard the stories about Racers being tossed for such things BUT I don't know of anybody who has personally been tossed.
The cars are about the same but the engine combos are different.
Slap him on the wrist or toss him out?
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Billy,
The problem is that the car needs to be entered as a 1968 to run AA/A, as a 1970, it can't legally make the class, a 1970 is a natural B car. A few years back, they DQ'd a racer for this exact infraction, a 1970 Nova in AA/SA. Had he entered it as a 1968, he'd have been fine, but he made the error and then made qualifying passes.
I suppose an absolute purist could make the case that the tail lights and possibly the marker lights, and maybe even a grille, would be grounds for a DQ. I'm not sure I'd go there, we may not even have a tech guy in every division that knew enough to make the call. Is that sort of thing something we really want to do?
I can agree with having to claim the correct year if it determines the ability to make a class.
I can even agree that in some cases substantial trim differences are grounds for a DQ. I don't think you should race a 68 Camaro as a 67, or the reverse. I don't think that even though the grille and tail lights are the big differences between a 68 and a 69 Chevelle that you should race one as the other. I had a guy tell me that he was told you could run a 69 300 Deluxe post Chevelle with a 427/425, I don't think that's right, either.
In the end, I think we need to think long and hard about what we ask for here.