How do you age an IT car from competition?

[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.

[BlueStreak]

When you can no longer source front brake shoes or rear wheel cylinders or correct spec SP rotor housings for it

The final time I took the car out, I actually ran it with a first gen RX-7 transmission in it because I couldn't afford to lose an RX-3 trans. Do you know how hard it is to find an RX-3 trans?

I really wish I had enough money to keep the RX-3 and just go nuts with it and run an SPx class with it. That's what the current owner is in the process of doing.

So, in short, run it until you find yourself having to "cheat" to put it on the grid. The good news is, the Z's won't ever have a problem sourcing rotor housings

[pballance]

I had written a long response and then lost the electrons, oh well. I don't have a problem with they way things are, really, I don't. If an essential part becomes NLA then it is time to move on.

My real reason for starting this topic was an effort to discuss another means of attracting the younger crowd to IT. Let's face it, a bunch of us are north of 50 and are perfectly content to race our 3 decade + old car that has ZERO appeal to the the younger crowd. Perhaps it is time to think about other ways of keeping the "club" young.

That said, forget I even asked the question. IMHO, until we see some changes at the management level, i.e. BoD, CRB, etc. the "club" isn't listening to those of us trying to push the envelope and create a better club, and good racing, for the overall health of the club. No wonder we loose so many entry level people to other racing organizations.........

Back to regularly scheduled programming and griping about Spec pinata's and production cars holding us up in the corners.....

[lateapex911]

No wonder we loose so many entry level people to other racing organizations.........

Back to regularly scheduled programming and griping about Spec pinata's and production cars holding us up in the corners.....

Well, there are a number of reasons for that. Chief among them is the financial realities that people discover when they actually start racing, I bet.

But your point should not be lost, or minimized by such examples. Those examples only prove how important it IS to listen to the customer.

Of course, the customer often has conflicting goals, AND the customer often presents a myriad of inputs. But, when the customer is clear and has a unified voice, yeah, listen up.

[toddgreene]

[QUOTE=pballance;301488

Back to regularly scheduled programming and griping about Spec pinata's ....[/QUOTE]

Hey Paul,

You can come on over tothe "PINK" side

Todd