maxwell:
You know a hell of a lot more than me on the subject, but doesn’t the W2W aspect of the races cause damage on a regular basis, and wouldn’t people target his car for a little extra rub or two on a tight corner?
LeMons is strictly against accidental casual contact and results in black flag penalties, I have never seen intentional contact. There is a lot of give and take with LeMons. Like I said, if he was forthcoming about the intent of this car, with the Judges, with Jay, and the other competitors I think it would be well received.
“Hey, I built this bad ass car, I tried to sell it, it didn’t sell, so I’m going to race it.”
Besides, LeMon’s is more about car cultrure, parting, crazy engine swaps, and backyard engineering more than it is about racing.
Incorrect. There is a $500 limit if you don’t want penalty laps. I doubt newman would care about winning or being competitive so penalty laps are irrelevant.
They have only claimed cars twice out of 80 some races, they didn’t claim a GTO or RX-8 that raced, just gave them a bunch of laps. I doubt that they would claim the car if you were forthcoming about the intent. It would take a simple email, “hey I’m bringing this car, with these mods, can you promise no to claim it”.
…and in the end he’s still stuck with an e30 he cant sell that is no longer in pristine condition.
…and NFG.
But seriously it is pretty easy to stay out of trouble if you are doing 8/10ths driving, and not treating every corner like OMG I going to win!!!
newman
June 16, 2015, 10:41am
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Honestly, to me, that’s the worst idea anyone has ever suggested. It might be your thing, it is not mine.
Having trouble selling your 50,000 dollar car for 20? Take it on a race track with 500 dollar cars!
All I can think of is that guy who intentionally drove into that SRT8 at the crashorama
newman:
Honestly, to me, that’s the worst idea anyone has ever suggested. It might be your thing, it is not mine.
Having trouble selling your 50,000 dollar car for 20? Take it on a race track with 500 dollar cars!
All I can think of is that guy who intentionally drove into that SRT8 at the crashorama
Sell the motor and a few other bits like the seats and racepak… and let me know the price on the shell. I’ll have @cougarspeed build me an LS.
Saw this sold in the panshovel thread?
GV1390
August 4, 2015, 4:03am
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Congrats, you know how to read! :lol:
Thanks, I’m just learning still.
In case someone here missed out on this car and still wants one.
http://syracuse.craigslist.org/cto/5196861280.html
JDM air filter, Yo. I want to bash my head against a wall reading that.
The cage isn’t awful though.
Main hoop is behind the B-pillars and not blocking the door opening, and it’s not gapped the fuck out out. Main hoop has a diagonal (this allegedly prevents parallelogram failure during roll over) . Main hoop rear down bars tie into the rear strut/shock tower not the trunk floor with a bonus bend (they even have three members tying into one node point). The front hoops follow the roof and A-pillar nicely (I assume there are no mystery bends there). The door and harness bar bends are nice touches.
http://newman.onyxsyndicate.com/e30gtr/e30gtr_46.html
theblue
September 7, 2015, 3:21pm
253
that’s what I was thinking… I wonder how much he wants for the car… $4k would be a awesome but based on the trades I bet he’s fishing for 10k
newman
September 8, 2015, 5:40am
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The cage isn’t awful though.
Main hoop is behind the B-pillars and not blocking the door opening, and it’s not gapped the fuck out out. Main hoop has a diagonal (this allegedly prevents parallelogram failure during roll over) . Main hoop rear down bars tie into the rear strut/shock tower not the trunk floor with a bonus bend (they even have three members tying into one node point). The front hoops follow the roof and A-pillar nicely (I assume there are no mystery bends there). The door and harness bar bends are nice touches.
E30GTR-CAGE COMPLETE, RADIATOR SUPPORT
I didn’t build the cage. I know it sucked. I also paid out the ass for it from a very reputable cage builder.
I know you didn’t, so it wasn’t meant to be an attack on you. Give me credit, I bit my tongue until it was sold.
That isn’t newmans is it? Just another swapped one?
Definitely not his. Doesn’t have the same engine either.