How do you age an IT car from competition?

[pballance]

Not wanting to clutter up another thread too badly, I decided to start a new one to discuss something that I think is timely, maybe not, but it is the off season and it is far better than bashing >insert racing class or car< during the off time.

Seriously though, how do we age out a car in IT?

I don't want to stop racing my Z and I am sure there are some 510, RX7, Borgward, etc. drivers that want to continue, but how do we limit when a car must stop racing?

Do we simply make concessions, when parts are NLA, to keep them racing? Can we create a "process" by which a car should be aged out?

Is it even in the best interest of the club to consider aging out cars?

Thoughts?

[quadzjr]

I think the lack of parts is a good way to phase a car out. When you start allowing different mods to certain cars to allow them to continue, it could start a slippery slope as many would go against the idea of IT.

Similiar things have happened in the Prod side (See old british cars)

[Flyinglizard]

Ignore it. When it starts showing up with not stock/legal stuff peer pressure /and or protest, will retire it to the vintage ranks. Not a real problem. IMHO. MM

[joeg]

I agree with Mike...let things run their course.

Given the economy, we must be concerned with car counts and letting (and encouraging) folks to continue to run their cars in the classes they have run in.

We are not looking to retire cars by age; Heck, I just built my brand new race car based on a 1982 shell!

[Knestis]

If it were possible to get accurate records, at some point - say after 3 years without an entry - I think a car should fall out of the ITCS. Josh S. (I think) had a good idea - that this step take the form of the weight column entry being replaced with a note explaining that the car had aged out but might be reinstated if a member could provide the data necessary for determining a race weight.

Of course that was back in the heady days when we thought we could do that kind of thing - set race weights - in some comprehensive fashion.

K

[JeffYoung]

Paul, I think it has to happen naturally. RX3s are a good example. They used to be fairly popular in ITA; my understanding is that rear brake parts are not available anymore and the cars have disappeared.

I would not support an exception for replacing NLA parts for older cars. You can always replace and run in ITE for example.