Life Support?

[Alan Roehrich]

The American love affair with cars was diminished by what Americans were offered since about 1974. For the most part, throw away junk.


What few performance cars are offered now are exorbitantly expensive.


Even the Camaro was stupid expensive, and it was a barge. Never mind that GM forced you to add all sorts of stuff you didn't want in every package. That's a perfect example of poor leadership in the corporations and government interference in the market.


People lost their love for cars because the government and the OE's gave them nothing at all to love.


What's being promoted to today's buyers, especially the youth, is the "fast and furious" crap.


NHRA only promotes the nitro circus. Even Pro Stock is barely hanging on, and only because a few are willing to spend stupid money to compete.


What Stock and Super Stock need is a Roger Brogdon, like Comp has. It's really sad that NHRA can't seem to take the cue that Brogdon has given. He's single handedly revived Comp.


Interest in grass roots amateur motorsports is cyclical, and it's taken some hard hits with the economy, marketing, the OE's, and some of the sanctioning bodies. It's not dead, but it's not real healthy, either. It will survive, in some form. What forms will that be, and how healthy will they be? Good questions, and the answers depend on the economy, marketing, sanctioning bodies, and to some extent the OE's.