If money were no object....

[Jiveslug]

....what car would you race? I was thinking about this the other day. Since I am still financially challenged (stinking wedding... just kidding!), I have decided to race in my imagination for the time being. So I thought, if money was no object, what car would I race? So, I decided I would definately start out in IT and then move on to Speed WC GT. Here is what I came up with:

ITS: Proabaly an Alfa Romeo Milano Verde. Gotta love Alfas, and that thing is a beast. Of course, I also think that the VW Corrado SLC would be fun too.

ITA: Dont really have a car that I love above all others.....

ITB: Suzuki Swift GT, Any of the Alfas (especially the 75-79 Alfetta GT), Ford Pinto (dont ask, I dont even know on that one. of course, you dont need any kind of money to race one of those)

ITC: I said money was NO OBJECT.

After that, I think I would look into World Challenge. Id spend un-Godly amounts of $$$ on prepping an Aston Martin. Hehe.

What about the rest of you?

[gsbaker]

Audi R8. Hands down.

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Gregg Baker, P.E.
Isaac, LLC
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[racer_tim]

BMW M1 from the early 80's

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Tim Linerud
San Francisco Region SCCA
#95 GP Wabbit
http://linerud.myvnc.com/racing/index.html

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[RSTPerformance]

1988 Audi 200 Factory Trans Am car... If anyone has ever watched these cars then they know the noise from the turbo's are unresistable... more so than our Audi's rumble...

http://www.audi.com/cf/rich_media/com/en/experience/motorsport/background/history/history/108003352983043872.jpg

or any other Audi Sport (Factory backed Racing car).

Raymond Blethen
RST Performance Racing

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[racer_tim]

Or David Hobbs McLaren BMW 320i from IMSA

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[Quickshoe]

Maybe it is a good thing that money is an object. I'd have a hard time coming up with one car.

If it had to be a pavement car with fenders: a Ferarri 360 Modena Challenge, quickest, best handling, best stopping fendered car I've ever had the privelage of driving at speed on a race track.

I'd love to try my hand at a WRC car.

Then again, I'd never done a desert race and giving the Herbst folks fits in a trophy truck at BAJA would be cool.

Lastly, give me a Ferarri F1 car and no team orders... http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/wink.gif

[Speed Raycer]

If money were no object... I'd race a 1st gen RX7.... more than 3 or 4 times a year and somewhere other than the track thats 15 minutes from my house http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/biggrin.gif

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Scott Rhea
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it's how you build it
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[racer_tim]

As long as it's not this Ferrari

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Tim Linerud
San Francisco Region SCCA
#95 GP Wabbit
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[jhooten]

Would a R8 be legal for ASR? http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/biggrin.gif
Or any of the LS1 powered Daytona Prototypes?

But for the supreame confort in a race car today it would have to be a CTS-V in T2.

[Despr8dave]

Ford GT Mark 4, Daytona Cobra, 427 Cobra..Porsche 917..... any of the "Killer B" rally cars.......maybe I'm just a tad older than most of you guys....

[Quickshoe]

Porsche 917 or a number of the IMSA GTP cars will replace the 360 Modena in my previous post...

I wasn't thinking outside the box and only considering current cars.

For that matter some of the Rally cars of yesteryear would be prefered over todays' WRC cars.

[lateapex911]

I second the vote for the Ferrari Modena, in the Challenge series.

But....some of the P3 Ferrari sports car prototypes with the V12 engines from the 70s might be a sweet vintage drive.

Also, the Porsche Supercup looks like a nice series....faster than my 911 that's for sure!

But money no object?

I would go to Marenello, and spend a week getting the current F1 Ferrari up to a speed that ould approach respectability...or maybe three weeks! http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/wink.gif

And on the final night I'd have Little Feat come and play a set list of my choosing... which would include Birdland" a song I doubt they have ever done.

Being mega rich could be cool!

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Jake Gulick
CarriageHouse Motorsports
ITA 57 RX-7
New England Region
[email protected]

[lateapex911]

Originally posted by RSTPerformance:
1..... the noise from the turbo's are unresistable... more so than our Audi's rumble...

If you guys painted your cars brown, people would be handing you packages and asking for tracking numbers!



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Jake Gulick
CarriageHouse Motorsports
ITA 57 RX-7
New England Region
[email protected]

[moto62]

I want one of these.
http://www.hillmanimages.com/hi/hi.php?Gallery=p956
Ray


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[byron12]

if money were no object i would have a jay leno sized warehouse full of assorted vintage and current race and rally cars.
but truth be known i would probabaly drive every cool racetrack in the americas and europe including the targa newfoundland and bathurst in austraila in an ITA crx. of course little feat would play dixie chicken for me in my back yard.

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[cherokee]

For me it would be one of the old Can-Am Porsche or McLaren's. I gotta have power.
If there was ever a F1 of sports car racing the Can-Am series was it.

[Andy Bettencourt]

BTCC E30 M3....

AB

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Andy Bettencourt
New England Region, R188967
ITA project SM
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[SamITC85]

I would race on of the Volvo 850 GLT Wagon touring cars from the mid 90's. Nothing like kicking the crap out of BMW's and Mercedes etc. in a grocery getter.

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Sam Rolfe
TBR Motorsports
#85 ITC VW Rabbit being converted to LPHP
#85 GP Scirocco

[Racerlinn]

New Hoosiers instead of worn out Kumhos...
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Steve Linn
'92 ITA Sentra SE-R
www.indyscca.org
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[Bill Miller]

This would sure be high on the list.

http://www.miller-motorsport.com/images/cars/73RSR.jpg


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[Bill Miller]

<font face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=\"2\">Originally posted by byron12: of course little feat would play dixie chicken for me in my back yard.</font>

And here I thought I was the only one that listed to the Feat! Damn, I gotta go put Waiting for Columbus on! Saw one of their last concerts before LG died!

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[lateapex911]

Originally posted by lateapex911:
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I would go to Marenello, and spend a week getting the current F1 Ferrari up to a speed that ould approach respectability...or maybe three weeks! http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/wink.gif

And on the final night I'd have Little Feat come and play a set list of my choosing... which would include "Birdland", a song I doubt they have ever done.

Being mega rich could be cool!



Bill....read more carefully next time!



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Jake Gulick
CarriageHouse Motorsports
ITA 57 RX-7
New England Region
[email protected]

[Knestis]

I'd have a different approach. I know - no surprise there...

Stables of identical 2wd Group N cars - VW, Honda, Renault, whatever - on all of the continents, staffed by competent mechanics, co-drivers, and logistics personnel.

I could pick a race (24 hours of Nurburgring), rally (Pharoahs in N. Africa), Hillclimb (Pike's Peak) anywhere in the world, fly in my G4 to wherever it was happening, and do an arrive-and-drive...

K

[JLawton]

917, 962 or any of the early Trans Am cars. But if I had that kind of money, I would buy a few thousand acres, build my own race track and rally track.

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Jeff L
#74 ITB GTi

[BUMPnGO]

A 2005 Ford GT40 in full race trim...what an awesome looking ride!!

[Greg Amy]

<font face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=\"2\">1988 Audi 200 Factory Trans Am car...</font>

Ditto, or the 1989 IMSO GTO version. One of those things I'm gonna buy when I get stupid rich and want to go play in vintage racing...

[lobster]

Money huh? Yeah I saw the Audi's at Long Beach still uni bodys then kickin butt!! Hey wat about a time machine? How about the 1969 Trans am season? Mark, P.J., Jerry T., Dan-the-man!, Sweede, and all the rest the best Trans-am year ever! I would like a Bud Moore prepped Boss 302....

[Chris Wire]

I could come up with many like a 996 GT3RS, or a Panoz ALMS Roadster, or even a DTM Mercedes,
http://www.hewland-engineering.co.uk/jpgs/dtm_merc.jpg

my "money no object" would probably be the Ferrari 333SP. Wow!

http://www.mulsannescorner.com/Ferrari-MF1.jpg

.....at Spa, of course!!!

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Chris Wire
Team Wire Racing
ITS Mazda RX7 #35
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[fiat124girl]

A P-34 Tyrell.

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