From my perspective, the demise of pavement racing began when you had to have a car built especially for it to be competitive. I'll never forget the days of running say Sante Fe on Friday and maybe Illiana on Saturday with the same sprint car. Change bars, shocks, maybe swap the Jake to the other side or swap it for a panhard bar, and boom you ran both pavement and dirt with the same car. Those were truly the good old days
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