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My two cents;
1)Yes, Sports Sedans could have developed a bit better. Given some better organisation at key points in time, it might have become a cross between V8SC, NASCAR, TRANSAM and GT sports cars.
2)Local manufacturers are still around. Mike does pretty good with his Spectrum FFord's in what is an ultra competitive market. Elfin are still making one of the best Super Seven replicas around and may do very well out of the new Holden deal with the Streamliner, et al. I think that the number of manufacturers is more in tune with the size of the market today than it was. I would still love to see Spectrum take a couple of FFords to the Festival. Unfortunately that is unlikely to happen so long as they continue to build and race them to the local "post-historic" rule book that is Kent.
3)Repco were a major company at the time and could have made a go of it. The loss of the Repco engine program was just another stuff up among many perpetrated by the bungling management structure over many years.
4)Merv's engine should have gone on, agreed.
5)What if? Could it have supplanted the V8's of today? Maybe.
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