- 1. Why build when you can buy an old race car (score: 1)
- Author: "MalcolmCox" <malcox@napanet.net>
- Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 20:29:48 -0700
- Since I started racing almost 5 years ago, I have heard and given this familiar advice many times into a race car. Then I started thinking about all the work I have done on my (raced since 66) MGA. O
- /html/vintage-race/2000-08/msg00100.html (7,598 bytes)
- 2. Re: Why build when you can buy an old race car (score: 1)
- Author: classic <classic@iaw.on.ca>
- Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 08:20:39 -0400
- This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --5E105783E1C2E5A73D7AC1A8 That may be true but if you search wisely, including viewing the performance of the vehicle on the track, you shouldn't go too
- /html/vintage-race/2000-08/msg00101.html (8,828 bytes)
- 3. Re: Why build when you can buy an old race car (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Hardison <cobra@airmail.net>
- Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 09:51:24 -0500
- I think we agree on this issue. Having gotten into vintage racing only five years ago myself, I am certainly not the ultimate authority. I have purchased two "race ready" cars and without being the
- /html/vintage-race/2000-08/msg00103.html (8,719 bytes)
- 4. Re: Why build when you can buy an old race car (score: 1)
- Author: Simon Favre <simon@mondes.com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 14:21:03 -0700
- When the Cobra Daytona coupes first took to the track, the drivers got SO hot that Shelby sent a guy out to the pits with some tin snips to cut holes in the roofs. I'm sure all the current owners are
- /html/vintage-race/2000-08/msg00106.html (8,051 bytes)
- 5. Re: Why build when you can buy an old race car (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Spruck <bspruck@mindspring.com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 12:57:43 -0400
- I think the way I got into vintage racing and built my car might be the best of the two alternatives. Since I was an old Bugeye and Sprite nut, I was checking out all the Spridgets at the 1987 Mitty
- /html/vintage-race/2000-08/msg00109.html (11,792 bytes)
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