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Originally Posted by Jack Ferris
So you can only race a car that the factory installed the engine in yes? So a Yenko Camaro with a 427 for example would not work because it was a dealer installed motor. Is that correct?
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Yenko's and COPO's are allowed to participate, even the COPO ZL1 versions are allowed because they all started life as production order cars from the central office, the only difference with the Yenko is that Don spruced it up with a decal package. But they were all available and sold to the general public and came with a warranty.
The only cars that aren't invited are the cars built specifically for racing that generally didn't come with any type of warranty, cars like the Hemi Darts, Swiss Cheese Pontiacs, any of the lightweight cars like the early Dodges and 409/427 Impala's. Simply because these were cars not available to the general public, you had to be an established racer at that time to get your hands on one. So they aren't really mass produced production cars, so to speak.
I think the rules specify any V8 rear wheel drive car with dual exhaust up through 1974 or there abouts, that came with a 4 barrel carb, is generally accepted as a performance oriented car and can compete.
That includes any car that you want to build as a clone, it doesn't have to be a real car, however the clone built must represent the HP and model claimed to be right down to the correct casting numbers, trans, rear, etc...
There are quite a few real cars that compete, I'd say probably 70% of what you see if I had to guess. There are clones mixed in, and most of those you'll see in the F.A.S.T. class.