Howdy,
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Buddy Ahlers wrote:
> Buy a $1,000 car, sell parts for $2500, and you have a
> $3500 "$1500 challenge car". It's a beautiful plan.
> Also, the claim rule was implemented mainly for the
> GRM staff, but they urged the other participants to
> abide by it for the sake of good sportsmanship.
...
> That's not saying that I could have come up with
> better rules, but they really should have spent a
> little more time looking at the loopholes.
I thought the point of the grm $1.5k challenge was to do what any one of
the standard "low buck car enthusiast" types would do when building a race
car? With that in mind, I think the rules were pretty darn good. I know
that I'll be selling parts I don't need off the '86 mustang I'm building
for CP. I also know I'm not gonna count my time in any sort of financial
way as its something I enjoy doing. And finally I suspect that like many
of you out there I'm in between an average homeowner mechanic and a
professional, and I have friends that are good at the stuff I don't know.
I think the contest was cool. I also don't think it was supposed to be
some psycho over-rulebooked thing like the typical SCCA anality-fest. I
recall that it started out as a challenge amoung the magazine editors and
was then expanded to include others when they expressed a desire to join
in.
Not trying to jump down your throat, just can't believe that some folks
are taking a fun contest and trying to turn it into Formula 1.
Mark
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