SCCA Regions across the north east band together to include ITEZ class.

[Greg Amy]

So...I logbooked my first ITEZ car yesterday...maybe first in the Region...? Division...?

Guy is an American Sedan driver, bought this on a lark (for almost nothing) and wants to get his buddies interested in racing. He's getting it ready to hopefully get someone in this weekend's driver's school (if he can get his Novice Permit worked out in time). He calls me up, tells me what he has. I (reluctantly) invite him to bring it over to the house for inspection.

So what's going to show up in my driveway? A chicken head? Eagle's wings? A converted Cessna 172? I brace my wife for expectations...

So it's a bright sunny afternoon and I'm working in the garage, and from around the corner comes a Suburban with a third-gen Mustang in tow. Purple, with various graffiti all over it. It's a LeMons car, 302 powered. Overall, other than the graffiti, not bad. But Purple (or lavender, or whatever. My color palette consists of the Crayola Basic 16, and this is "purple".) Sadly, no chicken head. I walk up to it and start chucking at the details: hood with welded hinges so that it pivots toward the right instead of up and back; rear deck - with no glass - secured with home-window latches (but riveted straps for security); two standard auto bulbs riveted to the outside with wires going in - left side only - so that they could win the "perpetual left turn signal award" (I asked him not to use those in the school...); and of course, the graffiti, which also included a partially-completed checklist written directly on the roof of the car...

Oh, and a couple of very large truck pintle hitches welded directly into the bumper rebars, facing forward and back, as tow hooks. Thumper will have ZERO problem finding and clipping onto those...

But the contrast inside was interesting. Kirkey metal seat with new IO Port seat brace, HANS-compatible FIA 2017 belts, decent rollcage with decent welds, very much not unlike what we see in amateur-built Improved Touring cars. Cage could have been done better, but it appears safe. Hell, if not for the graffiti and oddball additions, this car would have felt right at home in Improved Touring. And it has Camaro iLE brakes all around...with a driver-controlled bias adjuster.

Should be fun...can't wait to see the heart attacks these are going to create with the Old Guard...hoping this won't cause some steward positions to be inadvertently available...

GA