craig,
good preperation is importaint! but if there ever was an occasion you
needed anything........ask. we just might have it with us.........
chuck.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kerry Seibert <ckchapel@fast.net>
To: <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 3:40 AM
Subject: Operating budget
> or the old joke about how to make a small fortune in auto racing . . . . .
.
> .
>
> Erich - I think Don has it just about right. Maybe a little more for
> accommodations, food, tow vehicle gas, misc. I did four events last year
> and spent a total of $5000. My wife and I do "splurge" and spend our
nights
> at a nice B&B and treat ourselves to good meals (keeps my "crew" happy!)
I
> consider myself lucky that I think this was done in "ideal conditions", ie
> nothing broke. A mechanical malady could bring heartache. I do try to put
> away a little extra every year for any future "budget buster". I bought
new
> tires at the beginning of the year and a new oil cooler. Luckily the only
> other things I bought were oil, filter, brake fluid. I do do all of my
own
> service work and prep, probably spending at least 30 hours over and under
> the car between events, time well-spent. For someone like me with a
limited
> "budget" and time, it would be catastrophic to tow 10 hours somewhere and
be
> felled by something simple you should have caught at home. You certainly
> can't insure 100% bullet-proof-ness but you can get the odds somewhat in
> your favor. Anyway . . .I don't know if a budget is really possible? If
> you want to do it, and you enjoy doing it, and the family is comfortable
> with it . . . . .then do it. I think most of us will have our "limits" be
> they financial, emotional, whatever. Stay below these and have a ball!
>
> Cheers, Craig Seibert 1968 Morgan +8 car no.611 "Duff Morgan
> Racing"
>
> PS One thing you DON'T want to do is to figure out your cost/mile or
> cost/lap. It'll make you nuts!
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