Super Stock GT Classes

[Mike Schwartz]

Originally Posted by Jeff Niceswanger

I think originally the reason for the GT classes was an attempt to get guys to build the new anemic cars coming out of Detroit into race cars. The 60's cars were so much better and no one wanted to built these smog motors. Detroit wanted their new cars going down the track. So they let them put the old engines in the new cars. Boy, how things have changed.

Wasn't it an outgrowth of the rules approving FWD-RWD conversions, for the same reasons you mentioned?