Lyle,
The FIA recognition (homologation) forms were the "spec sheets" used by the
SCCA to regulate sedan preparation rules in this country until about 1971.
The factories produced these official sheets for cars prepped to Group 1
(essentially dead stock with full road gear) and Group 2 (with numerous
factory authorized mods). To homologate the cars in either of these two
groups, the factory had to produce and certify something like 5000 and 1000
identical copies of each. This led to some devious manufacturers (Fiat
Abarth comes immediately to mind) certifying the same batch of cars numerous
times, after taking the FIA inspectors to long lunches during which the first
cars' identification plates would be changed for different ones.
All of us who raced sedans back then had to carry the official papers with us
and the tech inspectors could check dimensions and optional parts against the
forms. The SCCA went to their own recognition form system in 1971, I think.
This ended the "homologation specials" that the factories would throw
together and then certify with ink-blotsmudgedunreadable Italian forms that
no one could decipher. At least my forms were in English!
Chris Gross, Ex-Mini Cooper (970S) racer, now vintage Bugeye driver.
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