[Dwight Southerland]

Dime Rocket Premises:
1) If you can run the index and do not get beat by a faster car in a heads-up run, you are as competitive as anyone (if you can drive).
2) An inexpensive car can beat a bucks-up car on the handicap.
3) Lots of 'speed' parts are not really necessary to win.
4) You can do a lot of stuff yourself to build a car.
5) The class guide is filled with cars that can be built to run the index.


Pros:
1) The Challenge!
2) Feeds the ego, inspires the soul and expands the mind.
3) Makes class racing more available to the racing community.
4) Requires you to develop skills and acquire knowledge you wish you had anyway.
5) Stirs the pot of the cookie cutter race image cars.
6) Increases the car counts.
7) Confounds the simple and wise alike.
8) Recycles used race parts.
9) You don't have to worry about people stealing your stuff.
10) Gets some odd, ugly cars out of the salvage yards and off the streets and gives them celebrity life.


Cons:
1) The Challenge!
2) You can't order many parts from Summit or Jeg's.
3) Most of the cars are slow.
4) Few people understand.
5) You cannot be lazy and make it work.
6) You will not get a lot of respect from the big bucks guys.
7) Not a lot of development or shared knowledge to draw from.
8) Fuel, food, motels and travel expenses are the same as the glamorous cars.
9) It's hard to build a stick car for cheap.
10) "That's a race car?!?"


BUT !


The cost of the car - cheap
The look on the face of that driver of the $100k factory car you just took out - priceless!!