having them look like the real cars will also make the automakers to make a sweet aero looking cars like they did back in the day

 

The "aero wars" of the 60s weren't that aero at all really, and weren't that long. '66 and '67 saw a Charger that, quite frankly, looked a lot like my Torino and you could swear my Torino was drawn from it with a sheet of tracing paper.




Then there was the Torino in '68, the Talladega in '69, and then the winged Daytona and Superbird.



After that, NASCAR put a 305 cid limit on the aero cars and basically ended them. The manufacturers wanted to run their big block engines.

 

I glad you mention this!

I think it should be up to the manufacturers to produce cars the have the aero characteristics of what they want to run in Nascar. It wasn't that long ago that they did just that. The original reason for GM producing 2dr Lumina's was so that they could run them in Nascar. In its first year of production GM only made something like 500 of them. It was the bare minimum requirement from Nascar at the time. When Ford interjected the Taurus they just kept slipping away from production car shapes more and more across the board.

Now GM has gone back to the drawing board to try and come up with a suitable car. But I just know Toyota won't and they will just crap this whole concept off with a Nascar Camry bearing no resemblance to the production car at all. Then one manufacture will rightfully claim that Toyota has an aero advantage and that manafacturer will get to change their Nascar package a little. Then another manufacture does it and so on and the ugle circle begins again until they are all the same stupid "Car of the-day-after-tommorow"

I hope Nascar really takes the manufacturers to task on this. I am quite satisfied with what Ford and Dodge are doing. Even though I'm sure that Dodge is a little short - why doesn't Dodge just build a 2 door Charger already?!?

 

Switch to Challenger!

 

Could you imagine if it wasn't. I don't think i'd be able to get insurance after a week of owning that car