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Originally Posted by skycafe
TransAm will never be what it was nearly 50 years ago.
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Or, more importantly, 20 years ago when it was at it's most popular in terms of eyeballs on product.
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Keep it simple so you are not penalizing the current competitors with endless upgrades that will have the effect of washing competitors out. Instead, have large fields of noisy cars that look kinda sorta what the public owns. Have the loud cars squirm around for traction.
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That's the entire idea behind this "TA1.5" concept. Even though the TA1 cars are relatively simple, they're still quite complex and expensive by comparison. Though it's actually more a LACK of upgrades that's the real problem right now - the engines, which are mostly previous-generation NASCAR engines, are starting to get harder to source parts for, and repairing chassis is a lot more labor-intensive due to them being of some VERY old and overbuilt designs.
It would probably be possible to upgrade the current crop of TA1 cars in a way that could bring their costs down with no change in performance, but it'd almost certainly be easier and still cheaper to just make upgrade kits for TA2 cars to achieve the same goal.