George Ryan wrote:
>
> So you are suggesting that an owner of an '88 Vette, for example, must
> modify his car to Prepared or Mod condition just to be competitive in the
> SCCA? Or how about the owner of a Porsche 911,914, 924, 944?
>
The thing about your opinions I am having a hard time with is that time
and technology move on. The older cars get left behind, in terms of
quickness, and get replaced by a newer definition of a sports car. Are
we supposed to ignore the reality of how the modern sports car is
changing?
As time marches on how are you going to protect your list of pet cars,
class the multitude of currently produced cars, and not create a
gazillion additional classes? Just to protect the "classic" sports
cars? (Besides, the "real" sports cars classes would be embarrasingly
slower than the grocery getter classes when your done.) Frankly I would
view a class, let's say it's a class where the Porsche 914 is
intentionally classed to dominate, as a protectionist farce. "Let's not
class a similar more modern car (ie: MR2) in "that" class...you wouldn't
want to make the 914 look bad." You would hear many thoughts exactly
the same as yours, but concerning the lack of competiveness of different
cars. Please explain how this situation would be any different than it
is now?
To answer your question above, "Yes", I think that if time and
technology has left those cars you listed behind, then you will have to
spend money and prep them to be competitive in other categories. I
don't see the problem with this.
Pat
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