Forum: HoseHeads Sprint Car General Forum (go)
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Is it just me, or do others think some of the hoods and bodies are starting to get pretty ugly with the Sprint Cars? I guess I am old school, I jusy like the STANDARD hoods that come from the manufacturers. I liked the fact that I could usually tell what kind of chassis each car was just based on the hood. Now I just can't tell anymore.

everybody has their own pref. i like the individuality that some of the fabricators are showing. plus there are other was to tell what chassis a guy is running. no right or wrong.

dl-

i don't care for the KKR hoods.

I like the retro alum. 3 piece hood Flash built that's being run on JD & Jannie Porter's Sprint in 2010.

 Randy       

       DIRT TRACKIN
"When it's wet slide it in"

I am with you on this one. I know teams have fooled around with hoods for years going back to the Karl Kinser days. That being said, Schatz seems to be pretty fast with a standard J&J style hood. But I know someone else will say that Saldana had a pretty good year with his funky hood. I guess there are people who like the innovation, I am just not one of them.

Aside from the ugly KKR hoods, I am not really bothered by most of the new hood designs out there. My pet peeve is the small tails- To me those ruin the look of the whole car. Compared to a mid-80's winged car, the modern cars with the midget tanks make the cars look like a dog that just got a boot to the butt.

hell guy's it isn't just the hoods that are ugly. look at thesorry side panels that extend all theay back to the real axel and up to the roll cage. i like the real sprinter / midget look from the 70's/80's. also the wedge hood from back in the 70'/80's worked as good and allowed plenty of air inside, i have pictures i took of a nance car with evidence of air releasing out the back end /sides od the air box. also with a wedge hood you can run injector stacks out thesides of the hood if you choose to.. my guess, the new ugly hoods are not any better for down force.....

that hood is as good as any. forget all those glass shit box's.....

I all ways like the hood that gary stanton put out. For some reason they have went away.

I don't mind the look of the standard downtube cars today and their "factory" body panels and small tanks. But I'm still kinda new too. I think the non-wing cars are starting to look gawdy with their 5-bar innovation and the front of their cars has no more character(curves)

But I think the absolute all around best looking sprint car is Doug Wolfgangs 4X Vise Grip car. Even the headers were cool looking. CarWashMike has a picture of it somewhere.

The greatest knowledge is to know that you know nothing
at all.

I think everybody needs to start here if they want to make sprinters easy on the eyes again.

For G**'s sakes people, racing was considered entertainment at one time. That's what most of those seats on the outside of the fences were for , from what I heard.

This really a nice setup here. It's got louvers on the side panels, and even a full belly pan! This group puts out a nice, clean simple race car. Even going to have hand lettering too from what I hear. With Joe Wood Jr. behind the wheel, the look says 'all business'.

I'd rather be in Knoxville.

OMG you could have seen the driver in that car..I dont mind the hoods but these side panels they have on the left side of the roll cage is ridicules---then on the right side of the cage I dont know why they dont just cover the whole cage with a 4x4 sheet of plywood and maybe cut out a half moon for the driver to peek out of.

Bri,

That #49 Ugly Thang!!! No vinyl wraps, No ViNyL, stick on numbers,,, No green,pink,brown color combo w- black wheels,,,No everything squared off... Chrome,,,huh,,,only for sissies.That is sooo yesterday,,,,..

Get Real,,,,

Take Care

That thing is fine................

Right up until you have to actually work on something in a hurry.

44H

I could get back into watching cars like this again. It would take me back to what it was like when I was 10 years old.

Stan Meissner

Yes, we've given up a lot in looks for safety I guess. At this rate, pretty soon you won't be able to see the driver at all.

Adding $6 trillion of debt in his 1st term and now if 
elected again he wouldn't have to worry about an 
electorate in 2016 so the sky is the limit.And his EPA 
would continue to put the screws to oil drilling and 
mining for coal.Can you say bankruptcy.

Are we really that far from enclosed cockpits?