My understand of the beginning of ProStock - is that after the start of Funny Car madness, the factory's realizeD that the tie-in between the race cars and actual street cars, faded. The factory's returned to supporting cars that actually looked like cars. All of the big 3 came out with serious high performance street cars. Also during that time the racers - Sox - Jenkins - Nicholson were very involved with match racing a "psuedo" super stock type car. The appeal of this type of car was incredible - race tracks across the country were packed with fans that were rooting for their favorite driver and car type. Seeing the success of this, Sox-Jenkins-Nicholson approached NHRA with a proposal to start a new class -- ProStock -- and as we see today, it has developed into a high refined race car. Far beyond what I hoped it would ever be. I am old fashioned -- bring back true STOCK - SUPER STOCK - and PROSTOCK ---