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Originally Posted by MRM
Besides, there's not much interest in road racing in the US anymore and race car technology is so divorced from daily driver car technology that even NASCAR wins don't drive sales of new cars. It wasn't long ago that Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday was a truism. I can remember when car manufacturers seriously competed versions of their street cars in NASCAR and the public loved the competition between manufacturers as part of the show. Now I don't think half the race fans in any version of the sport can name the manufacturers of the main race teams.
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Approx. which decade did competition cars stop being anything like the retail cars they represented? 1970s?
Even as a kid in the 80s, I felt the NASCAR cars were nothing like street cars. You could see their fake shells getting easily ripped off, so they simply resembled the body shape. But, even as a 14 year old kid, I would not have been fooled by the NASCAR "Camaro" thinking it had anything to do with the local dealer selling Camaros. This is why I have never understood, at least in my lifetime, why race results would have anything to do with new car sales. It seems as silly as buying a Tesla b/c Elon also happened to build a SpaceX rocket that reached space.