The new Drag Pak Challenger...Opinions?

[RustBucket]

Is this a good idea?

Plunk down 35K, finish the car to class spec and your liking, and go racing. Ford is offering a race-ready package for 70K. According to Ford, you could be sitting in the staging lanes before the ink is dry on the bill of sale.

Is the timing right on this?

Do you think these programs will spark a sportsman revival for NHRA and smaller sanctioning bodies?

I personally don't see how this is going to help the entry level, low budget racer. Maybe it's not intended to do so. All I see happening is a good portion of the cars getting locked away in climate controlled storage facilities by collectors with deep pockets and a dream of breaking the Barrett-Jackson auction record 10-20 years from now when they bring the car out of hibernation. Only a fraction of these cars will ever see track duty.

 

[dodgechargerfan]

Not really sure, but I would think that a car with some actual racing history would be of more interest to the collectors than one mothballed without ever registering a pass...

 

[RustBucket]

Not unless someone is REALLY good at CPR to bring Ronnie Sox back.

 

[Mopar440_6]

Do you think these programs will spark a sportsman revival for NHRA and smaller sanctioning bodies?

NOTHING will ever help the NHRA at this point. They have regulated this sport within an inch of its life. Compton is trying his damnedest to make drag racing as boring as NASCAR...

I personally don't see how this is going to help the entry level, low budget racer.

More than likely these deals aren't going to help the guys trying to get into it on the ground floor. But the guys who have done it for a couple years and are looking to upgrade might jump all over this. If you do the math on what it costs to build a legal, competitive car these days, you can get $35K wrapped up in a rolling chassis pretty easily...

 

[giowest]

I was under the assumption that all of the first drag pack cars were pretty much spoken for by Dodge to all the top sportsmans racer's that could afford the car.:huh:

 

[restoman]

Compton is trying his damnedest to make drag racing as boring as NASCAR...

It'll never happen... have you watched a NASCAR "race" lately?




Damn, and I used to be a big NASCAR fan.

 

[J.C. Corbett]

have you watched a NASCAR "race" lately?

Only when I need to grab a good solid nap.:shifty: