Experience Consequences and Trigger Industry-Wide Rule Changes

the straight-up way of doing it but we we wanted to get a car that would be competitive on the racetrack and the only way we could do that is to level the playing field and when i say level that's a key word because we wanted the top of the deck lid to be flat and level with the ground so that's why that car had to be built because at the time the rule was you had to have the factory silhouette yeah everything was governed by something like you see on that and that pontiac that's the long template that metal piece on the top of it that's an exact uh replica of the of the 19 or let's see i guess it was uh 1991 when we did that so that's what the template looked like in 1991 it followed that configuration and that's how your your vehicle had to uh fit your uh current nascar template a long template so when all this took place with the taurus it eventually caused nascar to finally give in and make a universal long template that fit every car ford chevrolet pontiac dodge whatever it was they all had to fit that one single long template and that long template was made off the taurus really absolutely off of that tourist up there off the tourist race car and the tourist race car was made from that car because that was that was the first four-door car that was adapted to be a two-door cop car wasn't it yeah it was you know back then everything was based on a real car you know what i mean and and tradition had dictated the fact that we all ran a two-door sedan because it was a sports model or a two-door car period and a four-door car wasn't even considered when ethel ford came to us and said we're gonna race what we build in the factory and that that was the key right there they build four-door tauruses so if you go back and you look at some of the history and if you look at that book the taurus it actually shows some of the things that uh the ford motor company wanted us to do with the race taurus to make it look like it was a four-door uh you know by changing the rear uh the side glass windows and everything on it uh putting extra bars on there really are made of decals you know so um but that didn't last very long everybody went back to making it look like a two-door so um the uh the taurus itself is uh was a real game-changer in in nascar it changed a lot of the rules when you were sitting at a table in a room over at penske who who were the guys at the table and who said let's take a car and make it how we want it and then show that to nascar and hope they…