Common Templates? Toyota? NASCAR’s move to common template cars should be completed in time for next season’s Daytona 500, when Pontiac and Chevrolet are expected to debut their own versions of the common template model. Insiders are wondering if that simply opens the door wide for Toyota to step into this sport: if all the bodies are the same, all Toyota has to do is come up with a 358 stock block V-8, and NASCAR probably won’t be giving the OK to any overhead cam versions.(Winston Salem Journal)(4-29-2002)
