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During the post-war era when NASCAR was recently built, there was shortage of new cars and since the feeling was that race fans wouldn't stand for new cars being beat up on a race track while they were driving a rattletrap pre-war automobile, modified cars became the staple of NASCAR racing. NASCAR head Bill France, Sr. then pitched the idea a year later of racing cars that people actually drove on the street and the plan actually paid dividence in the Winston Cup Series. Racing enthusiasts have also seen a great diversity of manufacturers on the track through the course of NASCAR competitions, as evident by the nine makes that came to the line during the first official Strictly Stock Division race which featured a Buick, Cadillac, Chrysler, Ford, Hudson, Kaiser, Lincoln, Mercury and Oldsmobile. Through the years, the evolution of stock cars continue in parallel with the enhancement of ultra-modern speedways as the machines have greatly developed from the road-going, lumbering true "stock" cars into the sleek, technologically advanced vehicles.

Source: NASCAR.com