Quote Originally Posted by Oldfart View Post
I am STILL confused as to why almost everyone here has to try to be the one to come up with the out and out racer. This is intended for a fun way for people to thrash around a circuit at speeds above what they can legally do on the road. At the last Roycroft Harry had his Light 15 thrashing around and at the end of the day put the muffler back on, through the picnic basket on the back seat and went home with a huge grin.
That is the spirit of the thing IMHO.
You DO NOT HAVE TO BUILD A RACING CAR. If I had the money and not so many other projects on the go I would buy something like an A35 go and use it then modify as I went along.
That is believe it or not my thoughts as well ,if you want to be stupid go off and do it somewhere else ,I can see its only meant to be a fun thing ,granted I have suggested a couple of out of the way projects ,but have really done so to inject a bit of interest and thought into the whole thing , I have enough high pressure do or die efforts going on in my work,with out anymore ,what appeals to me is perhaps the chance to use my creative thinking and have a bit of fun doing it ,the chance of playing around with SU carbs ,superchargers etc appeals to me ,to be honest I am not really worried if I win or not ,if the tyres go off or the drum brakes fade so be it ,I will do what I have done all my life and drive it accordingly and have a bit of fun doing so , my own view is that perhaps the class will attract some people who want to race ,a VW ,Fiat or Studebaker ,they will all present their own challenges to get going and sort out ,the biggest hurdle I see at the moment is finding cars that are not just a unsafe rusty hulk ,yes I know there are good restored examples out there but they are in that condition for a very good reason ,most of them are being cherished and not beaten around a race track ,at the end of the day I think we have to realise this is about having a bit of fun and not creating Supercars,I think thats why the rules have to laid down with some firm guidelines before we even start,and Old Fart I think I was one of the people who got the biggest kick out of seeing that Light 15 out there ,I talked about it for weeks afterwards