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Originally Posted by Billy Nees
Barry, you're right. Stock Eliminator is now officially for the rich. No one else need apply.
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Billy I hope your not telling me that 25k makes you a rich person. And if someone really wants to go Stock racing there are still several combo's and cars out there for under 15k. But unless you already have a trailer and a tow vehicle along with a nice tool box you need to add that into the picture. Not to many today have your talent to build a car themself. And not many have a friends that owns a machine shop. If anyone asked me about getting into Stock racing for cheap money. I'd say they need to see my wife. Yes she has a Psychology practice. The second person I would tell them to get ahold of would be you. I just haven't seen many new racers to start with but the ones that have started racing in the last few years don't seem to have any lack of money. When you and I started racing Stock most local tracks ran a Stock/ Super Stock class every Sunday. Today not so much. We picked Stock back then because it was one of the few classes that paid money. Now unless you live in a hub with several tracks around you that have Divisional's traveling and time off from work is a factor. If I remember right years ago you could show up on Sunday at a Divisional and still race. Today most are getting there on Wednesday. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE RICH TO RUN STOCK, but if you are just staring out with nothing it's far from a poor mans game. You know what I really think is nuts the cost of Super Stock. A group of Super Stock racers were talking at one of the last races I went to. The Super Stock racer was buying a new Big Block motor and it was going to cost him 55k. Now to me that's the RICH MAN'S CLASS. BP