What do I do with this car?

[autotec]

In the pictures that came with the car, it was raced in GT-2 in the past. The prior owner said it can be classed with the ITE cars now. Looking at the cars I would be up against, I think I would just be in everybodys way.

[dickita15]

GT2 seems odd, at least SCCA GT2. That would be a full prep race car with a fuel cell, fire system and such.
What motor is in the car? I assume it is a unibody car not a tube frame. What part of the country are you located in?

[Kolin Aspegren]

Team Highball was Amos Johnson, car was raced in the Luk Clutch
Challenge/International Sedan Series. Cool cars

k

[RacerBowie]

Probably also a turbo, if I remember correctly.

ITO perhaps? SPU? It is very likely a regional-only classes kind of car, but still fun.

[gran racing]

Justin,
Start off by doing some HPDEs then transition into the w2w thing. Do you have any pics of the car?

[lawtonglenn]

not THIS monster, is it??

http://www.racingsportscars.com/phot...06-04g-071.jpg

http://www.racingsportscars.com/phot...06-04g-045.jpg

[lawtonglenn]

or this slightly meeker version?

http://web.mac.com/jfroehl2/iWeb/nasamx6gt/Welcome.html

http://web.mac.com/jfroehl2/iWeb/nasamx6gt/Photos.html

[Knestis]

I saw the ad and, while it was a lot of car for the $$, it's kind of a motherless child in SCCA regional racing. If anything, it would be an ITE car or SP(whatever), but the answer completely depends on what your region does. Get a copy of your local "region-specific" class rules, and figure out where it fits.

KK

EDIT - I get to invoke Old Guy status here and relate the story that we actually raced one of those cars in the old ESCORT showroom stock series in the mid-80s. It wasn't as modified as this example but it was a really fun car. We had to run almost NO camber in the front, to keep the tires on the ground. With an open diff (required stock), it would spin a tire the entire length of the straight at Portland or Seattle. It was really a gas to drive.

EDIT EDIT - if that blue/white car is the one you bought, it's NOT the one I saw advertised. The Luk cars were not turbos. The one I saw was, as was our SSA ESCORT car.

K

[autotec]

No it wasn't the white car. It was the yellow one. I was actually looking for a simple "school" car just to get my feet wet, but this one just seemed right. It is a turbo. It's going to need some work to get it up to par, but it should be a fun car for a few track days. I'm located in WI. I'll have pictures on Sun after I clean it up a bit. Thanks for all the info.

Justin

[Tom Donnelly]

Any chance his car could run in DP?

[Wreckerboy]

In the pictures that came with the car, it was raced in GT-2 in the past. The prior owner said it can be classed with the ITE cars now. Looking at the cars I would be up against, I think I would just be in everybodys way.

If that's the car I am thinking of it was raced in GT2 with EMRA in the early 90's when it belonged to Bruce Hollander, who I think owned it before the owner you are talking about. EMRA classing was/is different than SCCA classing.

Big ass turbo on it at the time.