Sounds like you're bragging that you can afford it. (Very big smile!)
--Pat Kelly
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>From: Larrybsp@aol.com
>To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Terribly expensive sport
>Date: Mon, May 26, 2003, 9:42 AM
>
> from:larrybsp@aol.com (Larry Stark)
>
> I find this thread interesting. Having built and Solo II'd a
> variety of cars over 15 years I find cost is relative. I moved from Solo II to
> SCCA / NASA road racing and the cost has gone through the roof. Interestingly
> quite a few ex Solo II drivers have switched in the past year. Don Campbell is
> driving a C5 Corvette in the American Le Mans Speed Vision series. Dave Morin,
> Perry Kincy and the Van Waggenens's are running the NASA CMC series. I'm
> running my Corvette in the SCCA ITE class. At drivers school I met Sean Breese
and
> Arie Villasol. At Laguna Seca I ran into Mike and Karen Bernstein and Dave
> Jalen but most of you have no idea who they are. Most Solo II cars can be
> reverted back to street configuration and sold at fair market value. Once
you've
> built a car to SCCA road race rules, that's it. Any residual value is gone.
> Something about a gutted interior and full welded in roll cage give it away.
Other
> costs include new tires every event along with the need to have a set of
> mounted spare rain tires ($2000).. Add new brake pads every event and rotors
every
> other event, $130 - $150 a day for race gas, $200 - $300 per day race entries,
> wheel bearings on a regular basis. Add in the need to buy and carry spare
> parts, Alternators, water pumps, brake pads, brake lines, etc. Don't forget
the
> extra tool box you have to put together. Then you add blown engines at $8000
> each. I just lunched a $4000 ZF6 transmission. Don't forget having to replace
> cracked windshields 2-3 times a season. Add in the need for a trailer, a
> storage place, a tow truck or SUV, etc.
>
> Like I said its relative. Maybe my next sport will be something less
> expensive, like yacht racing :):):)
>
> Larry
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