Yup, I say in order to be a street car it must have:
- Tags,
- Title,
- insurance,
- actual street tires, (no slicks, no drag radials, something you'd actually drive in the rain.)
- Pump gas or e85 (none of this Drive on 87, race on C16 crap)
- Stock chassis, No clip cars, no backhalfed cars
- full factory glass
- Lights, mirrors, All of the interior, carpet, headliner, all the seats, etc.
- Heat, a/c (optional but preferred) Radio, courtesy lights,
- None of these jungle gym rollcages,
- No enormous tubs
- You shouldn't need tools to race it.
- It should start happily when it's cold, and idle happily when it's hot.
And finally, it's not a requirement in my book, but a street car really oughtta race in the exact same state of tune it's driven to the track in. I'd love to see at drag week or something similar, them put tape across the car's hood gaps, and on the links of the suspension on the cars, and if the tape gets broken, they're DQ'd You'd see a lot fewer quick cars if they're not allowed to mess with them between races and between passes.
Y'know, really, getting to think about it, that's really what makes a race car, isn't it? The constant adjusting to get every last hundredth of a thousandth of a second. Tweaking with every trick known to an experienced racer with umpteen years experience. As opposed to a street car where all the tinkering goes on in the garage, then the tools get put away, and the car gets driven.
