<VV> Metal v 'glass (was: NASCAR, no Corvair)

[Vairtec Corporation]

BBRT wrote:
> Might be worth pointing out that NASCAR "Stock cars" at the highest levels 
> are not 'glass (fiberglass?) as Mark erroneously stated, "That's because the 
> "cars" they race are mere 'glass mockups of cars set over top of pure 
> tube-frame race cars."
>
> They are all metal.
>   

True, except for the noses, which are a plastic material akin to the 
bumper covers on modern road cars, and the rear bumper covers, which, 
um, are a plastic material akin to the bumper covers on modern road cars.

Put me down in the column of those who do not care for today's spec-car 
formula in NASCAR.

I was much happier last weekend at the indoor midget races, where there 
was a great variety in cars, and where the top 3 finishers overall were 
each in one-off purpose-built machines, no two alike.

Yes, the contemporary NASCAR car is incredibly safe as compared to the 
cars of years ago.  (As a kid I was a Fireball Roberts fan, and as 
things turned out he had a cruelly ironic name.)  Of course, so are my 
short-track midgets, the proof of which is that today we see parents 
entering cars for their kids to drive, whereas 40 years ago all parents 
said no, emphatically, to a child who wanted to race.

I liked the T-shirt that read, "Remember when sex was safe and racing 
was dangerous?"

--Bob