--On Friday, February 27, 2004 2:27 PM -0600 Eric Salem
<eric@mail.brown911.com> wrote:
> The problem is that most of the cars in Prepared, at least FP & CP,
> don't have VIN numbers anymore. So if the competitor bought the car
> either already as a race car, or as an empty shell from a junkyard they
> have no way to know what year the car is.
Once again -- the year of the car is the year you put on the entry form.
It is not required to have a VIN, nor for any of that to match the year of
the car in classes that allow update/backdate. There's nothing wrong with
declaring your car as a 1986, and then updating to a 1988 unibody (including
the VIN), provided the rules allow for that and you can document it.
> Additionally the manualls aren't available for many of the older cars.
> I'm lucky a manual for a '72 911 is available for $1300 bucks, but the
> 914/6's in FP and many of the cars that are three decades old can't get
> them. Where for instance are you going to find a factory manual for a
> '70 corvette that runs in AP?
I feel your pain, as I remember how much the manual was for my 1973 914
when I was competing in Stock and SP in the early 90's. That said, yeah,
sometimes competing in an old car is difficult and expensive. That alone
isn't a good enough reason to eliminate the documentation requirements,
in my personal unofficial opinion.
If the documentation truly has no value in Prepared, as some of you have
suggested, then that's definitely a good enough reason. But nobody has
yet really backed up that statement.
Mark
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