The Policy-Driven Rejection

length of the car and i mean there was a thousand different reasons why you know according to all the experts but anyway the fact of the matter was it was really good so the next step was to say okay if we make you know a hundred of these like they do the laguna or whatever would it be legal so the first thing we had to do was show it to nascar and of course when we showed it to nascar they looked at it and looked at it and gary nelson came to look at and gary and i never did see really eye-to-eye on a lot of things but he said dan you can't you can't really say that i said why he said because you don't build it before it doesn't build it i said well they will build it well still you know we'd prefer you didn't do that so i say yeah okay and he said the other thing is i want to see the wind tunnel numbers well at this point i didn't realize that you know all that information had leaked out that it was really really good when tunnel wise and of course they they knew where we did and how we did it and they wanted to see it and he said you know we're not going to give you this car i said well doesn't you know mr france have to be part of the decision he said i'm going to present it to him so you know i was a little bit disheartened and i knew that when he saw it he was going to talk to the guys at ford and eventually get back to you know dan rivard and and uh and probably maybe even go as high as uh as one of one of the ford family and so as time went on and that wasn't very much time it's probably a week it came back to us and they said well we were contacted by the ford people i think dan rivard's office called me and said look you know they came to us and they told us they're not going to give us that that car that you built because it doesn't uh fit the requirements that that nascar is laid out as a guideline for a car like that for the winston cup series i just shook my head and kept going