How do you age an IT car from competition?

[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.

[RacerBill]

Paul: As Jeff said, things can happen naturally. In my case, the car I race - an '83 Dodge Shelby - is also classed in F Prod, E Prod, and GT3. So, if stock parts were to become unavailable, and I still wanted to race this car, I could always jump into another class that allowed different parts.

[Tom Donnelly]

My last car aged out when it hit a wall at Road Atlanta.

[Greg Amy]

My last car aged out when it hit a wall at Road Atlanta.