Mayf;
If you crash a store- bought supercar, you're just as dead as if you crashed
a hot rod.
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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From: "drmayf" <drmayf@mayfco.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 7:21 AM
To: "LSR" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: [Land-speed] A Left Handed Rules Question...
> Left handed in that it kinda comes out of nowhere for me. Back "when"
> the only cars that were fast were generally those designed and put
> together for and by hot rodders. Most street vehicles were limited to
> speeds maybe a few miles per hour over a hundred. Since those vehicles,
> hot rods, were put together by racers using all sorts of parts and
> pieces, safety rules were required. But, what about today? It is not
> difficult to go out and purchase a car that can exceed 200 mph right off
> the showroom floor. Corvettes, Vipers, Mustangs, lots of foreign cars
> (Bugatti Veyron, Ferrari, etc) seem to be able to do high speeds with
> ease. So, because these are in fact production cars, does it make sense
> to apply the older rules to newer cars? Ie, would it really be necessary
> to require a full cage for a Bugatti? Or what about a SFI 20 fire suit
> for a factory blown Mustang? If the designers of such cars consider them
> safe enough to be driven , albeit slower, on public streets, why wouldn't
> a lone car on the wide open salt be acceptable? I know these cars are out
> there, so why not relax the rules for super cars? It seems to me that if
> a venue were available for the owners of those cars to "test" their cars,
> maybe the streets would be safer, lol. It would be necesssary to assure
> that cars are as factory assembled though.
>
> comments?
>
> and, no, I do not thave one nor am I planning on buying one.. I am the
> opposite of having more money than good sense, lol, more sense than money
> ( a tricky way of saying I don't have the cash to waste)
>
> mayf
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