I have no knowledge of classic racing but I won't let that stop me from having an opinion!

Absolutely yes, cars modified with period parts should have a place in classic racing, how un-Kiwi to think otherwise! We need all types of racing. We need the purists who require homologation before the cover can be changed on the fuse-box - these 'stock' cars are our history, we need to see them and they need to have a class that allows them to be competitive and race with like-minded people. We also need the people that put a period blower on a BDA and cram it in the back of their Hillman imp, who doesn't appreciate looking at a well engineered, tastefully modified race-car? Who doesn't like seeing a Hillman Imp nipping at the heels of a Porsche or maybe showing it a clean pair of heels...? Most of us love the old Sports Sedans/OSCA car, aren't period-mod cars a bridge between that class and the 'pure' classics?

How about a class where period-mods are allowed as long as all the components were available within a set time of the car's manufacture? I'm sure we'd see some great cars put together, maybe some old Sports Sedans modified and brought back into the fold? For the less modified or less highly tuned cars, how about a power to weight ratio rule that would allow them to run in a wider field of classics but not single-marque races? Once the power to weight ratio is broken they go and play with the highly modified cars.

I've only got an old S4 Lotus 7. Nothing anyone would get worked up about if I modified and a type of car subject to a lot of in-period modification. I'd like to think that if I decided to put a 70's-spec rotary in the car, there would be somewhere 'classic' to play. I also think that if I was to put a latest-spec rotary with electronic everything and twin-turbos that I should be out in the cold, running with modern racecars.

Anyway, just an opinion from someone who doesn't know much!