Hot Rods Numbers on doors and...

The whole street driven race car thing drives me nuts, Old race cars should stay old race cars! (Drag cars as well)
There are several vintage/antique oval track clubs that have track time. So the whole you can't do anything with an old race argument does not apply.
Here in the Capital Region of New York there are clubs that allow full speed hot laps for true vintage cars. Cars go out in a group and brake up by speed not true racing but a good show.

One of the most out spoken people about me building an oval track car out of my Model A tudor.
Bought a 35 Ford coupe with Middletown Fairground's history and stole the speed equipment off the flathead for his hot rod. I can only imagine the shit fit people would have if someone bought a old hot rod and pulled it a part for a stock car. (I am not condoning this old hot rods should be left alone as well)

 

For me, that would mean trailer to two annual events.

The rest of the time it would be a garage ornament, and an unused trailer, taking up real estate, where an empty acre can go for $2,500,000.00.

 

When The vintage stock car clubs run here in New York it as an added part of the regular weekly show.
Between the number of short tracks and of clubs there are in my area one can run could run 6 to 10 times a year.
Some of these guys are going over to New England and down to Pennsylvania and running almost every weekend during the summer and well into the fall.

Please everyone let this thread get to off topic.

 

That's cool, but that would mean numerous 6000-mile round-trips for me.

 

Hello,

We all have different views on what the lettering and classes mean. Some get it and others do not. Stickers were a popular way for showcasing what you have in your build. Sponsor lettering is another story. But, cars in the Gas Coupe and Sedan Classes were just powerful cars that lifted the front ends up upon acceleration from the starting line. The original Gas Coupe drivers and builders just put in powerful motors, did their chassis balancing and made the most of what they had in their builds.
plain and simple, gets right to the point...

No one purposely raised the front ends high in the air for any reason other than the car looked like it was accelerating. The power and torque of a well built motor and drive line did that as a normal mode of racing. No need to pretend. But, in the later 60s, people just did not get it and started the fad of raising the fronts. Then it took off with more "so called" gas class vehicles, then came the lettering and more sponsors until it looked like a circus.

Gone are the days of building a gas coupe or sedan, drive it on the streets and then go racing on Saturday nights.

Jnaki

Change is inevitable, but we are not all blind chickens following the fad. (A fad that is part of car history, the only black mark on a great class of street/strip home built cars.) So, you may think and do what you want with your own car, but please do not classify all Gas Coupe and Sedan cars and builders as the "dreaded word and look."

A great example of a very fast Gas Coupe and Sedan competitor and winner. (From the Midwest...)

 

In the early 60s, we didn't have a class painted on our roadster because it ran both A and C classes depending on the strip we were at.