Are your drag strips becoming rice tracks

A360 said

Howdy All
Just finished another season at the track mainly street type events with a few open meetings thrown in.

Question is are your local tracks becoming rice-tracks.
Looking around in the staging lanes last meet a good 75-80% were of vehicles post 1990.

Is this a Australian issue or is this part of the ''Fast and Furious'' trend worldwide?

Cheers

Benton

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It's like that where I live (San francisco Bay Area) for a few reasons. Ever since the dot-com boom, the price of musclecars have skyrocketed around here. I remember in the early 90's, you could still buy a 340 Duster, or Dart, with a rebuilt drivetrain and requiring little work for about 5 grand. Today, easily above 10K. Even worse for B and E-Bodies. They're just not affordable anymore, but most imports still are.

"Fast and Furious" may have a little to do with it. Years ago I remember watching movies like American Graffiti, Hot Rod (70's version), Dazed and Confused and the Phantasm series and idolizing musclecars because of it. Nowadays, its all about the imports because of cost and practicality and it shows on the big screen.

Demographics. There is a large Asian population in this area. Most of the parents that buy their kids cars own imports and pass these cars on or buy new ones for the kids themselves. I was fortunate that the family hand me down was a 77' 200 series Dodge Van with a 360. Not fast, but did some insane brake-stands. I still have rubber shavings the size of a softball from one particular new years eve party a little while back....not that I do that stuff now...of course not! :---)

Benton, your lucky to have a local racetrack. Ours shut down in the late 80's (Baylands Raceway in Fremont). :cussing: STAN