A question?

[Gary Smith]

Originally Posted by Tim Kish

I saw that - didn't look like you thought she should buy it.

Yup. I told her she was crazy. But hey, not my money. Her name is Elaine Larsen who runs a jet car with her husband Chris. I met them shortly after my dad's death and are really good people. They were there to promote their sponsor btw. She wanted me to check the car out and give my opinion. I said no more than 23k. Although her husband couldn't stay the weekend he did check it out Wednesday and figured 25k. So she asked me to assist in bidding. I told her we needed to hold back & drive the bids in $500 increments, but her emotions took over at $25k. Oh well. It was fun & they are both happy with their new toy. (Bob Varsha's comments could put me in divorce court though!!)

[Gary Smith]

The ultimate BJ bidder is one of ridiculous amounts of money, no common sense, and enormous amounts of pride that make up for lack of manhood. Trust me, you have to be there to see it. There's no telling what drives desire to pay stupid amounts of money for some of these cars. They don't think like most of us. They possess very little mechanical knowledge and it shows when talking with them. It's all about having the hottest babe, owning the most popular cars, and boasting of all their famous car friends. It's rather amusing in some cases. With the two early Mustangs I've inhereted, I simply went to check out other fastbacks and watch how they do. Or better yet, to see how many fools still exsist in this stagnate economy.

Saturday night ought to be fun to watch. Some really nice GT500s, several Cobra Jets, and some interesting Mopars. Didn't see too many Vettes this year. Yenko seems to be the rage right now.

[mannymen]

You guys keep spending this kind of stupid money on your race cars and racing will eventually die. The younger generations don't want anything to do with this due to these high costs, but if Floyd Red Neck keeps paying 5K for a stocker head using his retirement and credit cards then die it will. Once the old timers paying this type of money are gone who will then poney up for these over priced cars? Do we really need the 400 GPH fuel pumps or Digital Ignitions on are 10-11 second stockers or 9 second SS'ers. Overkill!

Higher operating costs require higher entry fees by track owners and the racers need higher payouts (which isn't going to happen) to offset the cost of their six figure operations. Nobody wants to race their million dollar piece for $500 dollar payouts, so they don't show up. Tracks won't pay higher payouts and will therefore lose weekly entries and will eventually close. This is already happening if you have been paying attention. Heck some of the bigger tracks are only running special races.

It will come to a point where you as the racer will say I can no longer afford it. Diesel prices have already cut car counts.

[SSGN]

Originally Posted by mannymen

You guys keep spending this kind of stupid money on your race cars and racing will eventually die. The younger generations don't want anything to do with this due to these high costs, but if Floyd Red Neck keeps paying 5K for a stocker head using his retirement and credit cards then die it will. Once the old timers paying this type of money are gone who will then poney up for these over priced cars? Do we really need the 400 GPH fuel pumps or Digital Ignitions on are 10-11 second stockers or 9 second SS'ers. Overkill!

Higher operating costs require higher entry fees by track owners and the racers need higher payouts (which isn't going to happen) to offset the cost of their six figure operations. Nobody wants to race their million dollar piece for $500 dollar payouts, so they don't show up. Tracks won't pay higher payouts and will therefore lose weekly entries and will eventually close. This is already happening if you have been paying attention. Heck some of the bigger tracks are only running special races.

It will come to a point where you as the racer will say I can no longer afford it. Diesel prices have already cut car counts.

All this doom and gloom,the world is coming to an end.I tell everyone if you find something that is cheap and fun,and not illegal I want to buy 2.I have 2 daughter that race junior dragsters(not cheap) and my oldest one wants to race my friends superstocker, he is just not ready to get out yet.Let's get out of this rut and get racing.As for Bobby D,he is a true class act and a man of principle,he will probably retire some day put his car on stands and just keep it as a trophy.Be grateful for health and happiness,good luck to all.

[Jeff Lee]

John Gallina had an arm's length of first's with his 7 second SuperStock '87 GN. What did it sell for at BJ? It was either $28K or $35K, I forgot.

[Bruce Noland]

Jeff,
It sold for a little more than that but your point is well taken. I've heard the guy who introduces the cars on the tube say okay this is a pure classic with none of that racing nonsense in it's history. This remark alone shows the attitude they have about former race cars. Some day these classic buyers will get bored with their "pure" toys with great provenance and begin looking around for a race car or two to add some color to their collections.