Race Numbers Make Race Cars, Right?

Behold my STR backmarker! I've got the SCCA Starting Line School AND my first autocross in like a decade this weekend and I'm stoked. Come say hi if you're there.

There is nothing more legit than commuting with race numbers on your car. 

Good luck this weekend and remember to have fun!

Have a great time! 

April 1st will be one year since I started. I've done about 18 events, managed to squeak through for third once, but that was a fluke. I replaced my first Miata with a very competitive ES miata in February.

My local club is putting on a school March 31st, I can't wait! So excited!

I'm going to start a discussion about preparing for autocross School.

Race Numbers Make Race Cars, Right?

Grocery gettin'

In reply to thatsnowinnebago :

Your Miata looks fantastic. I love the wheels.

dculberson said:

In reply to thatsnowinnebago :

Your Miata looks fantastic. I love the wheels.

Hey thanks! Its bone stock other than the wheels. I'm glad the photo is far enough out that you can't see the half-flaked off clearcoat 

Looks awesome. Welcome back to autocrossing, and have fun at the event.

We had new numbers made for the racecar and my teammate put the old ones on his 528iT which is very much not a racecar. He's had them for years now. I wonder if the paint would come off with them.

mazdeuce - Seth said:

There is nothing more legit than commuting with race numbers on your car. 

I remember one day when all my other cars were broken/not available for some reason, so I had to drive the Miata to work with R compounds and DTC-60 track pads in it.  I did take the magnetic numbers off, though...

Have an awesome time! I fear this weekend's a big push to try to get unpacked at the new place, but I am much closer to PIR now, so... distantly possible?

buzzboy said:

We had new numbers made for the racecar and my teammate put the old ones on his 528iT which is very much not a racecar. He's had them for years now. I wonder if the paint would come off with them.

My son put vinyl numbers on the P71 for a TT event. The paint started coming off with the numbers so he left them. He's been DDing with numbers for a year now. 

In reply to Ransom :

I'm only 10 mins away from the track. Wonder if we're neighbors.

In reply to sergio :

Dig the Benetton livery. 

I grocery shop, pick kids up from school, all sorts of stuff. Middle schoolers think it's cool to roll up in this beast. 

These numbers have been on the car since waaaaaay before I got it. 

No pix but my 924s use to be stickered up. I used i all the time. Some would stare. Kids thought it was cool.  Always fun to do. 

I got tired of people trying to race me on the interstate and pretty much every stoplight so I put my numbers and class letters on magnetic sheet so I can take them off when I just want to be able to drive in peace.

I spent my first 35 years in northern New Jersey. There race numbers on the street were certain to get you a visit from a cop every time you drove. Today in the Lehigh valley no one seems to notice

Back when I used to drive my MGA to work.  Magnetic numbers don't stick to aluminum and static cling didn't, so stickers.

Does this count? It needs a wash and wax but will be street legal, uhh, soon.

TurnerX19, I grew up in Closter, Bergen County.