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[Spridgets] Racing cars displaying numbers on the public highway

Subject: [Spridgets] Racing cars displaying numbers on the public highway
From: bmwwxman at gmail.com (Jim Johnson)
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 16:06:41 -0500
References: <1ad7b.63e02414.3b06db50@aol.com> <F0052C68B32C46A187B13C0E3BDB0307@HomePC>
I seem to remember when I was in high school the drag strip crowd drove
around all week with the track info on their side windows in white shoe
polish...   ;-)   It was like some sort of badge of courage or something....

Cheers!!
Jim

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Larry Daniels <ladaniels at 
sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> Personally, I think it's kind of foolish to ask for extra special attention
> from the cops by running your numbers on the street, but I also think it's
> pure bullsh_t that this racing group can tell the people what they can or
> cannot do while not at the track.  Seems to me that if they aren't at the
> track the racing org ought not have a say in anything they do.  It ain't
> their concern.
>
> Any other intrusive rules like telling you how to vote or how many kids to
> have?
>
> LAD
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WeslakeMonza1330 at aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 3:45 PM
> To: spridgets at autox.team.net
> Subject: [Spridgets] Racing cars displaying numbers on the public highway
>
> MSA Blue book regulation J4.17 states:  Any means of identifying
> individual cars during a competition MUST be removed at the finish of the
> event.
>
> Also MSA Blue book regulation Q11.1.1 states: Competition numbers must be
> covered at all times when driving on the public highway.
>
> I think that pretty much makes it clear that no racing car (but not rally
> car) displays racing numbers when being driven on the road.  However, while
> a racing car no longer used for racing clearly could display a racing
> number on  the public highway none ever do because there would be no better
> way
> to say  'this car is just pretending to be a racing car".
>
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Cheers!!
Jim Johnson
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