Challenge Car Ideas

WOW Really Paul? wrote:

mndsm wrote: Buy mx6 pff Craigslist. Decide chassis is too scruffy. buy other mx6 800 miles away and keep in friends garage for four years. Acquire hodgepodge of parts including crap you didn't know you bought. (I had no idea i had fd wheels for it for like 6 months). Nearly give up. Get a divorce and move to florida. Decide to try again since challenge is like....2 hours away.

Where the hell is Ben BTW? I haven't heard from him in some time. For me, it is always a budget issue with getting to and from Florida, but I would love to make it down with the pesky little wedge Nissan I snagged this year, it's far enough under budget to make a very very quick little car out of with a lot of cheap parts.

Hes around. I was talking to him 5min ago, actually.

In reply to mndsm:

I don't doubt he's still around, he just never posts. If I clean house on project cars before long I'm just going to borrow his Miata she'll I have....

I think it's going to be an SN95 Mustang, because I'll be able to achieve two goals with one E36 M3box. I badly want to get involved in winter autocross at Lime Rock and I also want to build a Challenge car. SN95 seems to be the ticket to both.

Here's an idea: first-gen Mustangs and 78-87 GM G-bodies have the same wheelbase. Local roundy-round racers base their race cars on those GM chassis. Why not drop an otherwise unsaveable rusted out early Mustang body on a cheap, discarded G-body based NASCAR chassis?

What??? No love for built cars?

In reply to wheels777:

I still love you, Andrew!

I not only have love for built cars but I am also in awe of them. They are and will continue to be the things that magazine covers are made of.

I am very glad that I can bring my JV effort and compete alongside your Varsity effort