What were Super Saloons made from?

[driftwood]

Reading this tread for the 1st time ( other threads on this topic are elsewhere) you must put things into prospective
in 1973 a man had a few quid a road car and wanted to make it better than the maker intended hence the special saloon and went racing
then he wanted to go 1 better and started to fit bespoke race partsengines gearboxes supension etc from the obsolete parts bin of lola march or broke a car for its parts and made a super loon

so we are now 3 years down the line circa 76 u are the brides maid never the bride in the series so what do you do throw a security van load of cash at making the biggest and best steel shell saloon car or take the cheaper route by an obsolete 2 litre sports car thats dropped in value by 200% and drop a body on it and have a turn key proven racecar and for a lot less than Vauxhall spent on building big/baby bertha type cars
so now yr a winner and yr rivals see the merit in doing the same thing -buy a sports car ( no design costs or major manufacturing or developement to be done) and fit a galss fibre body
so its now 1979 and we have a bunch of cars from different years
73/4 steel shelled special saloons and a few space frame cars built
1977 we have alloy tubbed sports cars with bodies fitted and now its 1979 and u have won the series afew times but recently finished 2nd and now wnat the next generation car to win again so you look at a single seater car and fit a body on it a su think its the next untapped car that is cheap to build and faster/better lighter than the 2 litre sports car
You win some races and the following year 2 more cars appear and now we have nearly 10 years of saloon car racing and the 4 evolution of cars running & thats life!!
Some call it progress take alook at any formula the car schange every 3 or 4 years 1 designer comes up with a new idea in aero package or suspension format or even chassis desigin or material construction
I dont hear you bleating about Chapman and ground effects or McLaren using carbon kevlar
Instead of condemeing what happened in the past appreciate what happend and why at the time
if you where not there go and talk to the guys who where active and you will have a better understanding