in any case, its nice to have a well attended class that runs on DOT tires
so i dont have to change wheels all the time.
> It is also interesting that a big power OSP class car
> has NEVER beaten the small nimble ones.
not true! vic's z-car was beating the starlet most of this year. it shows
that chassis setup is more important than low weight. we also had a bunch
of high power a-stock cars demolish the class mid-season, and i think a
corvette won OSP early in the season.
-james c
OSP #74
----- Original Message -----
From: Dennis Hale <dhale_510@yahoo.com>
To: <black94pgt@pacbell.net>
Cc: ba autox <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 8:02 AM
Subject: Re: AACCKKK~I Hate Rules!
> >SM is what OSP was supposed to be... for street cars.
> >we need a two seater Street Mod for currently
> >registered real street cars! :)
> - -james, wanna be street modder
> >OSP #74
>
> BXXXXTTT! I am sure you weren't there when we made up
> OSP.
> There were two major goals;
> 1. A place for those to play who simply had built a
> car with out reference to the arcane and specific SCCA
> Solo rules book. Hint, there is a big world out there
> that does not revolve around the SCCA rule structure!
> A kit car guy really ought to understand this.
> 2. A simple heads up class of run what you brung type
> competition. No stinking rules, no silly protests.
>
> It was panned as unworkable by all the graybeards and
> we were assured it would be shortly destroyed by a
> ringer car or two.
> That never happened.
> The same graybeards continue to wring their hands and
> make the same statements 15 years later.
> There has ALWAYS been an "overdog" in the class.
> Before Jack's Bug there was Franco's topless 4
> cylinder Datsun Z that never lost.
> It doesn't matter. The class works.
> It is also interesting that a big power OSP class car
> has NEVER beaten the small nimble ones.
> [But this now encroaches on the tube frame AP class
> arguments....]
> In the hillclimb club we do seperate the cars by
> engine, the big power does help on a >15% grade.
>
> There never was an intention or mandate that the base
> car was ever to have been a legal strret car,
> especially a Kalifornia legal street car! The current
> Kalifornis Bus/Plane/Electric car PC statements about
> efficiency/cleanness/responsibility yadda yadda yah
> nonsense was quite with us then! Remember the 55 was
> our salvation then!
> SM on the other hand was created to give a strret car
> an advantage. A very specific street car, the Beagle
> twins with boost controls removed. And with Canadian
> registration. It hasn't actually worked out as
> planned, but the goals were far less generous and the
> "overhead" of rules nearly crushing. It is not
> intended to be a "run what you brung" nor a "heads up"
> class. Just "another one just like the other one"
> thing.
> And SM2 will be written to give advantage to something
> like a silly Fiero if it goes anything like SM did.
>
> Since you brought up the historical context....
>
>
> =====
> Dennis Hale
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