This is inane. It totally violates the grass-roots nature of SOLO II. Many
people cannot afford this.
Let's take the guy who has a $1000/year budget for a car. He could buy a new
$20,000 car once every 20 years and compete in SOLO II for half those years.
Or he could buy a $10000 car once every 10 years and compete every year.
Except for one problem - HE WOULD HAVE TO BUY A NEW CAR - AND YOUR LIST DOES
NOT HAVE A PLACE FOR $10000 NEW CARS. So he buys a used 5year old Subaru for
$10000 and he can compete for 5 years and then has to wait five years to buy
another car that he can compete with.
My understanding is that this rule was initially proposed so that we could
legitmately require Stock OEM parts on Stock class cars. We "NEED" this
because people are pissed that they have to spend $$$$ for custom shocks to
be competitive. So now instead of having to spend $4000 on shocks once. We
have to spend $20000 once every 7 years.
Once again, I ask how does this rule help anyone?
Please site an example of a car at Nationals that was older than 10 years;
that does not have adequate documentation to check its parts legality and
that was in the trophies.
Alan Pozner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Cone" <rickcone@bellsouth.net>
To: <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:18 AM
Subject: Stock Class Model Year Exclusion
> First and foremost IF we went to a 7/10 year rule in stock, the SCAC/SEB
> would have a much easier time of classing cars. Probably 70% of the cars
> listed in the rule book would be gone from NATIONAL competition. The last
> 30% will be broken out into Ultra Competitive classes. Since all newer
cars
> share similar technologies, the SCAC/SEB can better brake up that
remaining
> cars into 9 classes, perhaps even drop a few.
>
> This is how it might look.
> SS - The Ultra Stock that people here seem to want.
> (Z06/Viper/Ferrari/Whatever)
> AS - Sports Car High Performance (C4 Corvette/RX7TT)
> BS - Sports Car Medium Performance (S2000/M3/Boxster/ And ALL F Bodies)
> CS - Sports Car Low Performance (Miata/MR2/IS300/3 Series BMW)
> DS - Sport Touring (FWD High Perfomance) (TypeR/Subaru's/New Integra Type
> S/Mini S)
> ES - Sport Touring (FWD Medium Performance) (Celicas/Foci/Civics/Mini
(non
> S))
>
> It's simple. It's easy to explain to a novice. And pretty balanced. Less
> classes.
>
> I know I will hear it from the F-Body crowd about them being in BS. They
> could go into CS. But with a 7/10 year rule and the impending end of
F-Body
> Camaro's, FS will eventually be dissolved. Or we will have a spec Mustang
> class.
>
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