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RE: Need help classing Lotus

To: "'Jay Mitchell'" <jemitchell@compuserve.com>,
Subject: RE: Need help classing Lotus
From: "Colbert, Raymond J." <Raymond.Colbert@alcoa.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 10:57:13 -0400
Jay,

It's not a "modified production vehicle," is it? 

(Technically it is a VW set up on a tube fram with a glass body.)

Then it isn't a
legal D Mod car. In fact, it's a replica of a car that was
specifically developed as a race car.

You are absolutely correct, but the Lotus Seven also fits this category and
has thrived in Prepared and Dmod. It had the good fortune of being accepted
as a production vehicle that raced.  The Spyder from Porsche was accepted as
a racer that was produced  and occaisionally driven on the street but the
levels of the cars are similar.

> and that it was never a "Production Race Vehicle".

That's true as well.

In the case of one-offs or replicas, there is no usable
definition of "standard equipment." For this reason alone, such
cars don't fit into any class based on production vehicles.

Replicas of production vehicles are alowed in D and Emod. 

Jay

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