[Fot] SVRA allows 5 speed transmission conversion!

[Bill Babcock]

Henry, have you been watching old reruns of Boston Legal? You're  
sounding suspiciously like the James Spader character.  Of course that  
would have to be cigar smoke, not pipe, and scotch not wine.

On Feb 11, 2009, at 5:50 AM, <dos_gusanos at msn.com> wrote:

> Once again I will mount the soap box.  No you can't see both sides  
> of the
> argument.  It is merely a choice made by racers between what is  
> right, and
> what is convenient (and what will propel them to the front of the  
> grid the
> quickest).
>
> To vintage race, I believe you must agree with the idea that "racing  
> was
> better in the old days".  This is how the first people started  
> vintage racing
> as a way to bring old, outclassed cars back on to the track.  They  
> looked at
> the SCCA, said Yuk, and started their own deal.
>
> I know people who have come to the track one weekend, bought a car  
> and entered
> the next, have not gone through this thought process and yet wonder  
> why they
> can't enter in their Miata.  These folks need good strong rules and
> encouragement from their peers to realize that it is far better to  
> spend
> endless time speculating on electrical theory to finally experience  
> the joy
> and sense of acomplishment of their electric overdrive actually  
> engaging.
>
> While sticking a five speed in your Spitfire may not seriously  
> affect your
> car's value, I offer this challenge, go to Scottsdale next year and  
> buy one of
> those restored Austin Healeys, stick a 289 in it, and then see if  
> you can get
> Caroll Shelby to sign it enough times to ever get your $90 grand back.
>
> What I mean by this is I go to a lot of work to bring a reasonably  
> period
> correct and interesting car to the track and drive it.  I expect  
> everyone else
> to do the same.  The idea that Vintage event organizers should welcome
> whatever car shows up in whatever kind of condition, is just racing
> socialism..........................Henry Morrison (big ring of pipe  
> smoke
> exits mouth)
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