My thoughts were that this sorta class would be just the ticket to have some
fun.
wouldn't be the fastest class but it would up the number of entries at all
out events.... K
----- Original Message -----
From: <ardunbill@webtv.net>
To: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: Youngsters
> Yeah, Keith, that's a good idea, like AMA Class C racing was originally
> supposed to be. An '82+ Camaro with V-6 only, gas only, otherwise any
> engine mods ok, BUT, a claiming rule with a low $ figure, like $2000 (if
> that is realistic). So people could use their ingenuity for low bucks
> to get max safe speed. But anybody else could buy your car, for the
> claiming price. AND NO HARD FEELINGS.
>
> The old AMA motorcycle racing system broke down and was full of factory
> specials supplied to professional riders, simply because the privateers
> were fooled into believing it was "unsporting" to buy one of these
> factory toolroom jobs for the (low) claiming price in the rules which
> was put there in the first place to discourage people from spending
> large sums on exotic development of what were supposed to be road bikes.
> Of course if the privateer had claimed one of these factory bikes, he
> would have had the problem of replacing one-off parts when they wore
> out.
>
> Regards from ArdunBill in the Great Dismal Swamp, Chesapeake, VA
>
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