I guess I couldn't figure any other reason that the
Street Prepared category was limited to no
modification that would not be allowed in Prep.
Modifications from Stock were toward race
prepared cars. Getting the Street Classes in
was hard because of that bias. And people have
always modified their street cars in ways that were
not compatible with Race Preparation. Those
cars were excluded. Street Classes gives people
who do that -- the whole "European Car" Magazine
crowd, for example -- a way to compete reasonably,
rather than against formula cars or specials.
Jerry
Jerry Mouton "Laissez les bons temps rouler!"
----- Original Message -----
From: "John F. Kelly Jr." <76067.1750@compuserve.com>
To: "bay_area_autocross_list" <ba-autox@autox.team.net>; "Jerry Mouton"
<jerry@moutons.org>; "Pat Kelly" <lollipop487@attbi.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: Round 6 results are posted
> -------------------- Begin Original Message --------------------
>
> Message text written by "Jerry Mouton"
>
> "
> Maybe there's more to Solo2 than a
> cheap stepping stone to SCCA
> racing, as that's kind of what the old categories
> imply.
>
> Or not!"
> -------------------- End Original Message --------------------
>
> There's a lot to Solo 2 but a cheap stepping stone to racing isn't one of
> them.
> In the beginning there were Stock, Prepared (based on road racing
> Production becasue that already existed in SCCA) and Modified. Stock
> existed too but it was Solo that allowed "free" shocks primarily because
> many of us in the era didn't think we needed to see Stockers tipping over
> in supermarket parking lots, as was happpening on race tracks.
>
> Locally we had the NorCal Council which offered more classes and
> something called Prodified.
> Being an SCCA member offers the opprtunity to go racing. It's all
a
> matter of how big is your pocketbook.
>
> --John Kelly
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