lets not forget, this year DC did not have a car for racers, any contengency
money would be wasted, because the "New" neon was just not as good yet as
the old one for racin. DC does not make money on old Neons being
compeditive, (cept for tons of engine mounts) They make money selling New
cars.. as soon as they changed their model to the 2000, I'd bet you not a
single SS racer bought one.. and not because their was no contengency
money, the trunk kits were a perfect excuse, now Pat is right in saying that
as soon as DC wants to promote their "New" ACR then the contengency will
come back, once again, chrysler is in the buisness of selling cars, weither
Showroom Stock has paraity or not does not matter one ioata, anyone thinking
DC is trying to better SCCA racing with any intention other then selling
more cars is way off base..
Long Live Trunk Kits
Jeff Lloyd
>From: washburn <washburn@dwave.net>
>Reply-To: washburn <washburn@dwave.net>
>To: Chris Marsh <cmarsh90@hotmail.com>
>CC: autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: What happened to the Neon?
>Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 18:49:17 -0600
>
>Chris Marsh wrote:
> >
> > I think I'm repeating old info here, but as I remember Chrysler pulled
>much
> > of their contingency money for amateur racing and are going to field a
> > NASCAR "car" in the near future, so it seems that since they aren't
>worried
> > about amateur racers anymore they are making the neon less racer
>friendly as
> > well.
>
>While your facts are correct, I'm not so sure about your conclusion that
>DC is no longer interested about amateur racers. It's a lot deeper than
>that. Nor do I beleive that the NASCAR deal is related to the SCCA
>deal. My opinion? Look for DC and SCCA to reach parity, and
>contingency to return after next year for the new Neon ACR. Just a
>guess.
>
>PLW
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