I'd watch NASCAR again if....

[Mitch G.]

Man look at these beautiful stock cars, I'd watch NASCAR racing again, even if Jimmie Johnson still wins all the races, if the cars looked like this!
http://www.autoracingmemories.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=34&pictureid=2125
Check out Al Consoli's other photo's the guy is an amazing photographer.
http://www.pbase.com/consoli/open_wheel_racing

[webby]

Oh man, you now I am a sucker for late 60's early 70's muscle cars. Those are beautiful.

But you know what the best part is??? Those race cars.... ARE the cars! What's the saying? Race it on Sunday buy it on Monday??

I want to be able to identify with the stock car (hence the name "stock" car). All these spoliers, wings, headlight stickers, make me lose my identification with the car. And don't even get me started on the "car of tomorrow".

[Olen McGuire]

Now those are what I call real "stock cars". They won't ever make them like that again. The cars in NASCAR now look all the same. I can only tell them apart by the paint job and numbers on them. But they can flip five or six times, get slammed up against the wall, slide on it's top for a hundred yards, and then the driver can get out and give the finger to the one that caused it. I still would go with the daring and danger of the real stock cars.~Olen :up:

[indybigjohn]

Yeah, I wrote one of my "Driven to the Past" columns on Frontstretch.com about a similar topic. Had a similar photo accompanying it, and asked, "What was wrong with racing these cars?"