Richard,
Keep the faith and the "run what 'ya brung spirit."
Bruce R.
You might want to do a lookup on "Homologation Special" before you go too much further talking about "street prodcution (sic) cars." (i.e. Pick up a Mustang shop manual from '69-70 you'll note an unusually large number of asterisks / footnotes "*Except..." to flag the race parts that were stuffed into the Boss 302s)
Let's just stipulate that if all things were the same, then all things would be equal.
Freedom fries be damned; vive la difference! Can we go back to having fun?