Howdy,
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Joshua Hadler wrote:
> > ESP, to get solidly into the trophies, is certainly not a $50k class. Dave
> > Scholz's car (second at Nationals) was recently advertised for $26.5k and
>Sam
> > Strano's car (third at Nationals) was advertised at about $10k. I know that
>we
> > would take 40% of the $50k figure and gladly sell our car (4th and 8th at
> > Nationals). Perhaps if you wanted to duplicate Eguina's car would you
>approach
> > the $50k figure, and that would be starting with a new car.
>
> While I agree with you that ESP is probably not a $50k class, I would
> disagree with why. Just because a car is selling for $26k, does not
> mean, by any stretch, that it cost that much to develop. I'd be willing
> to bet that those cars probably cost a bit more than that to get to
> where they are. If that were the case, you could go out and duplicate
> the Nagler/Marinus 3-time champion ASP RX-7tt for $26k. Somehow, I doubt
> that car could be duplicated for that amount. And by the way, that's
> what I think it's selling for right now.
Which is why you should take advantage when someone already in that class
is selling their car... :-)
I drove the Strano camaro yesterday. While I can honestly say that I
suck, the car sure doesn't... I had course workers telling me they could
see the smile on my face from the other side of the course. For (I think
he said) $9.5k that car is a bargain.
Mark
ps. I'm building a CP car, 'cause I'm trying to make that grin get _even
wider_ :-) Sam let me drive his car to see how much I liked an F-body. I
still can't believe it, but he was right when he said it drives smaller
than it looks. I thought I was gonna mow down every cone on the course
but I only managed to hit one, and that was self-induced.
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