jeff@oblio.UUCP (Jeff Buchanan) (03/12/85)
> > Jeff, take a look at any reasonable sanctioned race series. They have separate classes for 'showroom stock' and 'modified'. If you do work on your car, it no longer is stock, and hence you end up being in a different class. Yes, they are apples and oranges. Or is a street-legal 935 in the same class as you? > > Tom, I think the problem is I keep talking about street cars and you talk about race cars. In sanctioned racing it matters if you work on your car. On a street car, it doesn't. If I'm driving my car to work and I'm chall- enged by another car, are you saying we can get it on only if we both have the same modifications? The thing is, if I decide to put headers on my motor I can race a car that is pure stock because the other guy has the choice of putting or not putting on headers just as I do. Is a street legal 935 in the same class as me? Of course it is! We both can choose any street car we want. If I buy a wimpier car than the guy who has a 935, that's my choice! As long as we are comparing street car against street car, we are definately in the same class. But if he takes his race car off the trailer, a 935 that is gutted, has not a shed of upholstry, has virtually nothing even resembling factory equipment, and is never driven on the street, now we are talking "apples and oranges" comparing it to my street driven Corvette. > > Wrong again as usual. [ :-) ] There are *many* street-driven VWs out there that can do the quartermile in the 9-second range. They don't have blown hemis either; they usually run VW engines (no *real* VW enthusiast will but a water-cooled engine in a Bug) in the 2-litre to 2.4 litre range, frequently turbo'd and occasionally with nitrous. And they do blow rat-motored Corvettes off the stoplights. > > Sure, Tom, sure you know of many such VW's. Right pal, anything you say. I'll bet you even drove one at Indy one year and beat Mario Andretti. A 9 second VW with a VW engine. Uh-huh. Right. Driven to the grocery store everyday, I'm sure. Sounds believable to me. Jeff