The 125s were never aired live before Fox Sports did in 2001 (Fox Sports Net). Until then, the races were always tape delayed until Saturday, often abbreviated.
What year did NASCAR stop being actual stock cars? At one time they started with a real car and made it into a race car, then at some point they just put a cover on a prefabricated race car to make it look like a stock car, I assume is was sometime in the 80s?
In the mid-60s, some cars were starting to be manufactured with front sub-frames tied into unibodies, which weren't strong or rigid enough to race. So the teams gradually started building the chassis out of steel tubing, and incorporating it into the car. The factory teams would start with what they called a "Body in white", that is, the shell of a car -- just the shell -- and incorporate the chassis, roll cage, etc into that. By the late 70s, they were building the chassis and attaching stock body panels to it, with the only modifications being to flare the fenders to cover the wide racing tires. When the GM10 cars came out in 1988, they were based on front-wheel drive cars, and the bodies of those cars had to be stretched to fit the engine and other stuff in front. So that was the beginning of the time that the cars stopped LOOKING like what you saw on the road. Then in the '90s you had the Ford Taurus, where they made a two-door stock car based on a 4-door road car. In my opinion, the last stock car that actually looked like the road car was the Monte Carlo SS, which ran from 1983 until the spring of '89, when it was replaced by the Lumina. But the cars stopped being 100% stock the moment somebody started beefing up the suspension, and that was probably back near the very beginning.
Any knowledge of the music for the starting grid?
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Is this the first use of the restrictor plate in competition?
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The 125s were never aired live before Fox Sports did in 2001 (Fox Sports Net). Until then, the races were always tape delayed until Saturday, often abbreviated.
What year did NASCAR stop being actual stock cars? At one time they
started with a real car and made it into a race car, then at some point they just put a cover on a prefabricated race car to make it look like a stock car, I assume is was sometime in the 80s?
In the mid-60s, some cars were starting to be manufactured with front sub-frames tied into unibodies, which weren't strong or rigid enough to race. So the teams gradually started building the chassis out of steel tubing, and incorporating it into the car. The factory teams would start with what they called a "Body in white", that is, the shell of a car -- just the shell -- and incorporate the chassis, roll cage, etc into that. By the late 70s, they were building the chassis and attaching stock body panels to it, with the only modifications being to flare the fenders to cover the wide racing tires. When the GM10 cars came out in 1988, they were based on front-wheel drive cars, and the bodies of those cars had to be stretched to fit the engine and other stuff in front. So that was the beginning of the time that the cars stopped LOOKING like what you saw on the road. Then in the '90s you had the Ford Taurus, where they made a two-door stock car based on a 4-door road car. In my opinion, the last stock car that actually looked like the road car was the Monte Carlo SS, which ran from 1983 until the spring of '89, when it was replaced by the Lumina.
But the cars stopped being 100% stock the moment somebody started beefing up the suspension, and that was probably back near the very beginning.
I heard 1990. Lumina's didn't come with V8's. The Thunderbird did I think.