> Gee, Jim, what was it etched in stone at when you bought the Lola?
>Didn't you do your homework and check to see where the thing would be
>elegible? Or have you had it since new, and are now put out to pasture
>because you won't upgrade to newer equipment?
>
>Dick Carlson
I find this reply to be offensive. If it was not meant so then tell me.
But it sounds very snotty to me.
What the date was when I bought the car is unimportant. I knew what it was
and I bought the car anyway because the car needed preserving. Isnt that
what all this is about, that and fun driving?
I have two cars in that list below that are vintage eligable, that is not
the point. I have a car I can race. I just think an arbitrary daye that
cuts the latter FFs out because they have slicks and wings is ....
uhhh....arbitrary.
To say that cars are no longer worth preserving after 1972 is pure crap and
anyone who knows cars knows that. Technology changes. Once, I am sure,
there were those who said, "Preserve the chain drive cars, they are
collectors items, but why preserve the new cars with geared transmissions?
They are not classics."
I have no problem with saying a 1985 Thunderbird is not a "vintage" car. Or
that "replicas" are not vintage cars. Of course they are not. '85 T-birds
are still seen on the highway in general use. But to think one has the
definition of "vintage" in their hip pocket is absurd. In fact the
dictionary says that vintage is the years output of a particular vinyard so
stick that in your coctail glass and drink it.
The T540 Lola is no more a "purpose built" car than are earlier FFs by Lola,
Lotus, etc. It even has the outboard suspension of its older brothers & the
same engine.
On second thought, I re read the above message, and it *IS* snotty, so dont
bother writing to say I missunderstood. I didnt.
Jim
"Better an outlaw than not free."
Nance O'Neil
1970 XKE 2+2
1974 Bricklin
1978 44' ketch "Millennium Falcon"
"Its the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve
parsecs."
Han Solo
1979 Lola T540 Formula Atlantic
1985 XJS
1985 XJ6
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