If the dealer can't (or won't) supply the spec, maybe someone else would.
Maybe the independent shop, the guy who works on those cars the dealer won't
bother with any more (he likely has a shelf full of references too).
What's the spec on my car? Well, the factory in Britain is not much help
since it no longer exists. There's no Triumph dealers any more either. Maybe
we go ask Kas Kastner if he has the spec (he probably does!). For Eric's
car -- well, for Eric's car we might not want to ask Dick Salem (his dad),
but Dick up in Omaha might be a good source for other Porsche questions.
People in the prep business who actually have some stake in doing things
right would be IMHO at least as good a source as a Haynes or Chilton book.
Any source can be doubted or contested, but once presented (assuming the PC
does not turn it down) it then becomes the protestor's job to provide
something better.
--Rocky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Salem" <eric@mail.brown911.com>
To: "'Mark Andy'" <mark@sccaprepared.com>; "'autox mailing list'"
<autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 4:59 PM
Subject: RE: Subject: Re: shop manuals
> Mark wrote...
> >>
>
> And in the $2k porsche example, the entire point of all this is that
> rather than paying $2k to get the information, you pay shop rate for the
>
> dealer to look it up. The _PC_ sets the bond amount, not the
> competitor,
> so you won't have people financing FSM's when they get protested.
> >>
>
> Clearly, Mark, you've never owned an odd-ball car. Let's say, just for
> the sake of argument somebody protests my backmarker FP 911 at Natz
> because the track is too narrow. Now just exactly where are you going to
> find a Porsche dealer that will work on, or have documentation for, and
> early 911. You won't in Kansas City and you won't in Omaha, Nebraska, as
> a matter of fact you probably won't anywhere in the country as most
> Porsche dealers won't work on, look at, or even change the oil on
> pre-1996 cars.
>
> Now that's for a car that still has an actuall functioning dealer
> network. What's a LBC person going to do?
>
> Ship Rocky's car back to Britian?
>
> Now that's a protest bond!
>
> e
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