Bob, It costs today to race what it has always cost to race. Every
penny you are willing to spend.
Doug Odom in big ditch
BWANA343@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 5/6/2007 10:24:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> dlodom@charter.net writes:
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> it cost that much a week to run a NASCAR team
>
> If Viagra gave me 1/10 of what they gave Dick Trickle, I'd be their Ho
> and run every LSR event world wide.
> As for totaling the investment for a $ @ MPH, between the IRS, THE
> WIFE, and that spark of logic that resides in a distant corner of my
> brain, I think there are very few of us that care to know or share.
> My personal observation is most of the guys on this list and in LSR in
> general are in automotive related businesses, which makes it
> financially convenient to participate in LSR. They also have the
> machinery at hand and the manual and physical skills to build the cars.
> I, on the other hand, am one of those schmucks with limited machinery,
> limited knowledge of the type of vehicle I chose to race, but with a
> long ago planned strategy to scrimp up a fund to finance my project.
> This is what I chose to do, and every little victory is sweeter as I
> am literally HANDicapped (bad pun) by these circumstances, and living
> 630 miles from ECTA and 2300 from The Salt.
> Bob, 9 fingers, W
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