Absolutely---that was pretty much the point. The only car I feel good about
selling is the one that "didn't need me".
-----Original Message-----
From: kas kastner [mailto:kaskas@cox.net]
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 9:53 PM
To: Bill Babcock; 'tom strange'; Barr, Scott; Larry Young
Cc: fot@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: Cambridge car for sale
How do you value the fun you have had for those thousands of dollars and
the little bit of blood? You didn't go racing to make money, you raced to
enjoy the thrill and the fun of it all. You've had a bargain.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
To: "'tom strange'" <tstrange@sbcglobal.net>; "Barr, Scott"
<sbarr@mccarty-law.com>; "Larry Young" <cartravel@pobox.com>
Cc: <fot@Autox.Team.Net>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 8:42 PM
Subject: RE: Cambridge car for sale
> Cheapest race car I ever bought was my Radical--43K brand new,
completely
> race ready and nothing that needed to be done, ever. Fast as I dared to
go,
> handled phenomenally, and could stop on a dime and give you nine cents
> change. I fiddled with it until I got it five seconds a lap slower than
my
> best time, then put it all back to the stock settings and went six
seconds
> faster. It didn't need me, and ultimately, I didn't need it--sold it two
> weeks ago. $25K, ah, well.
>
> Most expensive race car is my cheater TR3. There's more crap stuffed
into it
> than a Christmas goose. I built everything at least twice. There's at
least
> three quarts of my blood spread evenly over the thing, and I've got the
> knuckle scars to prove it. I'd have to sell it for $75K just to break
even,
> and whoever bought it would be banned from racing anywhere that has a
tech
> guy with a magnet. But I doubt that I'll ever sell it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fot@Autox.Team.Net [mailto:owner-fot@Autox.Team.Net] On
Behalf
> Of tom strange
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 6:54 PM
> To: Barr, Scott; Larry Young
> Cc: fot@Autox.Team.Net
> Subject: RE: Cambridge car for sale
>
>
> HEY!!!!!!!
>
> I resemble that remark......... ;>)
>
> but I dont really consider myself "odd"... I've just been trying to live
up
> to my name for 50+ years now.....
>
>
>
> "Barr, Scott" <sbarr@mccarty-law.com> wrote:
> Having just been through the process of building my own car (as, I
think,
> you have), I can assure you that building the car oneself in NO way
assures
> that there will be no real odd mechanics. Hell, including me, a BUNCH of
> real odd mechanics worked on my car.
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fot@Autox.Team.Net [mailto:owner-fot@Autox.Team.Net]On
> Behalf Of Larry Young
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 5:09 PM
> To: fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Cambridge car for sale
>
>
> I've never been successful at finding a car that was done. I've found
> ones that LOOK done, but they normally have some hidden sins. When I
> start going through it, I usually find some real odd mechanics, e.g.
> distributors wired wrong, camshafts installed wrong, etc. If it's a car
> I'm going to keep forever, I'd rather build it myself, even though it
> will cost more. Then I know what I've got.
> Larry Young
>
> Bill Babcock wrote:
>
>>And it's
>>why the best kind of car project to buy is one that's done
>
>
> Tom
> #4 white spitfire
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