On Thu, 13 May 2004, Mark Andy wrote:
> > And Finally...
> > Why is it that this is such a hot button for the three of you? Do you
> > have plans to compete in ST?
>
> On a personal level it annoys me because I had to take parts (an x brace)
> off my STX car ('93 325is, done on the cheap). On a theoretical level it
> annoys me because a hugely sweeping rule change was made because someone
> read the rules, took advantage of them to create a _very_ slightly better
> vehicle, and rather than accept that people changed the rules to make it
> illegal, throwing away all sorts of "intended" allowances in the process.
>
> Because, no matter what you say, an old civic weighed 30 lbs less than
> another old civic.
I didn't pay massive amounts of attention to this discussion when it went
by the first time, but was the Frankencivic the sole instance, or was it
simply used consistently as one example of a problem with significant
scope among other models?
It reminds me of protests made against a minor violation on a car with
suspected major (and expensive to check) violations as well - after the
fact it looks silly that they were DSQed for the wrong ashtray, but that's
not all that was going on.
KeS
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