stock car
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stock car (plural stock cars)
(sports) A racing car, such as those sanctioned by NASCAR and ARCA, nominally or notionally based on one of the regular production models available for purchase by the public.
Stock cars can't have all the modifications of other racing cars.
(rail transport) A railway car for carrying cattle.
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Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.
I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.
An ASA Late Model Series stock car on an asphalt track.
He is the latest to illustrate that winning is probably harder than dying in a stock car these days.
Other drivers compete often in stock car racing but are well known for their success elsewhere.
Staines Stadium was famous from 1955 to 1960 during the early days of stock car racing in England, and featured in the 1955 movie "Stock Car" among others.