Last year a "Stock Car" was actually street legal?

Question

Calling NASCAR "stock car racing" is a contradiction with the custom race cars they use now. When was the last season that you could have actually taken a car from the NASCAR race track and legally ride it on the street?

Answer 1

It's all about history. The cars of today are loosely based on their stock counterparts. The label stock car was given to this class of racing when it first began in the 30's. So it's not referring to the cars themselves. Even at your local short track, outside of NASCAR, you see stock car racing with autos that are not street legal. NASCAR didn't invent the term or the sport. They were the first to organize it.

Answer 2

Stock cars haven't been stock in 30 years regardless of what the body looked like.

Answer 3

It probably goes way back to the days when drivers actually drove their cars to the races and hoped they didn't wreck so they could drive them home.

You'd have to go back to the days when cars actually had street legal fixtures like real headlights instead of decals....

Answer 4

Like the late '50's early '60's.

"Stock Car" is not a contradiction. It's an acronym for the type of car's they race in Nascar.

Wouldn't "Indy Car" be a contradiction when there racing somewhere other than Indy?

Answer 5

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