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Mail From: VDeAngelis (D. Vincent DeAngelis)

Anybody know what year tube frames started being used?

Vinnie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scot Zediker"
To: "Jay Evans" <(email redacted)>; "Miata" <(email redacted)>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Miata] Nike Driving Shoes
> Precisely! The term "stock car" is a holdover from the days when NASCAR's
> Grand National cars (their top series before RJR began sponsoring it)
really
> were stock cars. No tube frames, no high-strung race motors, nothing.
You
> just bought your car, made a few mods for safety (or maybe not) and took
it
> to the track (some guys even DROVE their race cars to the track in the
early
> days, and others flat-towed their racers).

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Mail From: 95redmiata (Jay Evans)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: (email redacted) [mailto:(email redacted)]On Behalf
> Of D. Vincent DeAngelis

> Anybody know what year tube frames started being used?

If I remember correctly, in the late 60's all cars were based on a 65 Ford
frame and had to use the stock floor pan. But as the manufactures changed
over to Unibody and the supply of stock frames became short, Nascar allowed
teams to construct their own from rectangular tubing. Things have just
progressed from there. Today's cars aren't really that different from what
was run back in the early days. But with teams having to build 10 or more
cars for a season using a production car is really out of the question.

Jay
95 Classic Red