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From: TeamZ3@AOL.com <TeamZ3@AOL.com>
To: oblique@alum.mit.edu <oblique@alum.mit.edu>; autox@autox.team.net
<autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: Fine Print
><< I would hope that the SEB make an exception in AM's case. It takes a
> special kind of driver to make an AM car, a special kind of driver to
> drive one. These people are rare and deserve to have a place in SCCA
> Solo II. >>
>
>What's the point in having a rule if we're going to allow exceptions? If
you
>make an exception for AM, how are you going to justify not making the same
>exception for another class? Since the current level of commitment to
build
>and tune a dominating AM vehicle currently exceeds $100k for a sport that
>offers no financial payback whatsoever, only payout, then I guess that
would
>qualify as rare.
Yeah, but the true worth of AM is not limited to Nationals. It is a place
for all the oddball one-offs that show up (or want to show up) at local
autocrosses. I think an unlimited class is must, even if only the few, the
proud, the truly weird inhabit it.
Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Chev Suburban
LOON, MAC
pethier@isd.net http://www.visi.com/mac/
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