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Published on: 3/13/2008
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om/blog/exit.php?url id=29349&entry id=1182" title="http://www.classicrallies.com/view event/1261" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.classicrallies.com/view event/1261';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;" >Food Lion AutoFair at Lowe's Motor Speedway. "These cars were built to compete with the Dodge Daytonas and Plymouth Superbirds on the NASCAR circuit," said Bill Adams, president of Comet East Car Club.
"In the midst of all of that, there was a shift in thinking.
Fuel standards changed and insurance rates for cars this big and fast skyrocketed.
Ford backed off and never mass produced these cars." Couple those facts with a new NASCAR rule that raised the minimum production number for homologation from 500 vehicles to 3,000, and even the prototypes became scarce. "There is only one Cyclone Spoiler II," said Adams.