Quote Originally Posted by speedminded View Post
How do you know it wasn't a salvaged roll over car bought at an auction with a bent windshield frame and busted glass? I almost bought one that had not even had it's first oil change for $4k years ago. there was no damage to the rear quarters...only body panels on the front clip and one door with the top torn & bent up and windshield frame crushed. This car could have been duplicated for $8k with it after replacing the front panels, wheels, tires, chopping off the window frame, race seat, single roll hoop, and fabricating a tonneau cover. Find me a brand new 240hp 8,500/9k rpm 2,500 lb race car for $8-10k.

Is that how this car was built? I don't know, it's speculation. For all I know it could have been paid for in cash from the dealer and went straight to a shop to be modified for the track. Logic tells me it was built exactly how I could have done it 5 years ago.

Do you know how may 100's/1,000's of open cockpit cars race every weekend? lol! It's no different than a motorcycle in the rain. It's not NASCAR either, they can make turns in the rain. An experienced driver will pull nearly identical lap times in the rain as on dry asphalt anyways. That's what rain tires with a tread wear of like 30 are for lol! They feel like bubble gum when they are cold then get insanely sticky after heating up.
Lol first off. I don't care enough to delve into the way the car was built because.....I don't care.

I still think it looks like shit. No matter if it belches out virgins from the tailpipe when it races around Road Atlanta with 1 second lap times.

I HAVE raced. I HAVE gotten paid for driving and I was an instructor. I STILL think it looks like shit and if I was at Waffle House after race day i'd STILL say it looked like shit.

You feel like you have to defend this car when in reality you don't. You like it...GREAT!!!! I hate it....GREAT!!!! It's not your car so realize that everyone doesn't like what you like simply because it COULD be a great racing car. But....you honestly have NO CLUE how good a car it is because all you...and everyone else in this thread have seen is 2 photos.

So get me some number, lap times, weight, specs, the drivers name and his position in the points standing and THEN we can have a discussion on the performance of it. For all we know it could be some guy's first day on the course and he decided to chop his window off to be cool. It really looks like a mildy modded S2000 with no window. So who knows anything.

Until then.....it looks like shit.