article about gm's factory racing outlook
03-11-2005, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by badjuju342
Gotta agree with Jack here, it's like the old saying" What wins on Sunday, sells on Monday".
i think it's cool if they're racing in something like that 5.0 series in australia, something that you really could buy on monday.....sort of....more or less....
ithe drag racing and nascar affiliations are sort of a joke though....i think it's awsome that they want to go in that direction, but seeing a funny car line up with a "firebird" body doesn't do much for me, just like seeing a "monte carlo" doing the circles in nascar versus a "charger" is just funny....i like the racing, i just don't think it makes people want to run out and buy a charger or a monte carlo
03-11-2005, 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by jdustu
must be why they sold so many tauruses
i think it's cool if they're racing in something like that 5.0 series in australia, something that you really could buy on monday.....sort of....more or less....
ithe drag racing and nascar affiliations are sort of a joke though....i think it's awsome that they want to go in that direction, but seeing a funny car line up with a "firebird" body doesn't do much for me, just like seeing a "monte carlo" doing the circles in nascar versus a "charger" is just funny....i like the racing, i just don't think it makes people want to run out and buy a charger or a monte carlo
i think it's cool if they're racing in something like that 5.0 series in australia, something that you really could buy on monday.....sort of....more or less....
ithe drag racing and nascar affiliations are sort of a joke though....i think it's awsome that they want to go in that direction, but seeing a funny car line up with a "firebird" body doesn't do much for me, just like seeing a "monte carlo" doing the circles in nascar versus a "charger" is just funny....i like the racing, i just don't think it makes people want to run out and buy a charger or a monte carlo
They're not trying to hide the fact that a Firebird Funny Car doesn't have any stock appearance whatsoever (or run derivatives of the Chrysler Hemi)....that's why they're called "Funny Cars".
03-12-2005, 02:25 AM
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actually they are called funny cars because when the ramcharger team moved the body back on the frame to help plant the rear of their cars everybody thought they looked funny. they were factory cars, available 426 engines,just with a lot of race engineering and wheels that were way too far foward.
i know they aren't trying to hide anything, but the evolution of the sport(the majority of racing) has brought it to the point where the cars bought on monday have almost nothing but an emblem similar with it's racing namesake, and it's ridiculous that an auto company has to make a certain number of a certain type of car so that a completely unrelated vehicle can compete in a race. You can have all the similar dimensions you want, but nothing on a prostock car or nascar car came off a showroom floor. that's fine, but it's hard not to laugh when you see a dale jr. edition front wheel drive v6 monte carlo roll by. and how'd those front wheel drive v6 grand am's do in pro stock?
i know they aren't trying to hide anything, but the evolution of the sport(the majority of racing) has brought it to the point where the cars bought on monday have almost nothing but an emblem similar with it's racing namesake, and it's ridiculous that an auto company has to make a certain number of a certain type of car so that a completely unrelated vehicle can compete in a race. You can have all the similar dimensions you want, but nothing on a prostock car or nascar car came off a showroom floor. that's fine, but it's hard not to laugh when you see a dale jr. edition front wheel drive v6 monte carlo roll by. and how'd those front wheel drive v6 grand am's do in pro stock?
