Challenge for Grassroots

cicero819 · 12-24-2011, 11:03 PM

There is a magazine name Grassroots Motorsports (it's for the road racers out there) but they have a special challenge every year for a competition to build a race car for the amount not to exceed the year of the challenge, this year the total invested in your race car could not be more than $2.011.00. Now I'm sure that we could do the same in stock eliminator. Would love to see if Billy Nees, Mark Yaccavone or maybe even Jeff Teuton could come out victorious at this race. Your allowed to use old race parts, donated parts and cars. Now that would be a great challenge for 2012. Now thats a challenge. Claude Ruel

Jeff Lee · 12-25-2011, 01:30 AM

The problem is the "donated" parts. Some may have Shelby 5.4L with SC donated, others may have V-10 Viper engines laying around.
I've seen the road race. It's a great idea and looks like a lot of fun.But I almost always question the true cost on the winner.

Tim Ellis · 12-25-2011, 01:52 AM

I agree with Jeff, too many stories of build ups have a lot of freebie or borrowed parts. I would guess the way to get around that would be, after the race if someone offers you $2011, you'd have to sell it for that!

cicero819 · 12-25-2011, 02:21 AM

rule # 1 no free parts, must be all stock and car can be bought for $ 4.000.oo max(accounting for labour). I'm sure that we could come up with a great set of rules. CR

Billy Nees · 12-25-2011, 10:14 AM

Way back in the day a bunch of us got together and formed a rather loose club we called the Buzzard Bros. We would constantly try to outdo each other by seeing who could go the fastest the cheapest. Learned a lot and had a bunch of fun. We did learn very early in our games that we had to deal with the free, used, borrowed and donated stuff. What we wound up doing was, at our meetings, we would argue out a "value" for everything. It sounds difficult but we made it work. I miss those days.

Rich Biebel · 12-25-2011, 10:25 AM

I saw the back end and tailights of a whie Camaro with "buzzard" shoe polished on the back window at least once.....

A big guy was driving it at the time called "the Foot" LOL...

Merry Christmas Billy....

12-24-2011, 11:03 PM	#1
cicero819 VIP Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Aylmer Quebec, Canada Posts: 1,086 Likes: 31 Liked 69 Times in 30 Posts	Challenge for Grassroots There is a magazine name Grassroots Motorsports (it's for the road racers out there) but they have a special challenge every year for a competition to build a race car for the amount not to exceed the year of the challenge, this year the total invested in your race car could not be more than $2.011.00. Now I'm sure that we could do the same in stock eliminator. Would love to see if Billy Nees, Mark Yaccavone or maybe even Jeff Teuton could come out victorious at this race. Your allowed to use old race parts, donated parts and cars. Now that would be a great challenge for 2012. Now thats a challenge. Claude Ruel

12-25-2011, 01:30 AM	#2
Jeff Lee VIP Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Anthem, Arizona Posts: 2,766 Likes: 0 Liked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Re: Challenge for Grassroots The problem is the "donated" parts. Some may have Shelby 5.4L with SC donated, others may have V-10 Viper engines laying around. I've seen the road race. It's a great idea and looks like a lot of fun.But I almost always question the true cost on the winner. __________________ Jeff Lee 7494 D/S '70 AMX

12-25-2011, 01:52 AM	#3
Tim Ellis Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Beavercreek Or. Posts: 272 Likes: 31 Liked 7 Times in 6 Posts	Re: Challenge for Grassroots I agree with Jeff, too many stories of build ups have a lot of freebie or borrowed parts. I would guess the way to get around that would be, after the race if someone offers you $2011, you'd have to sell it for that!

12-25-2011, 02:21 AM	#4
cicero819 VIP Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Aylmer Quebec, Canada Posts: 1,086 Likes: 31 Liked 69 Times in 30 Posts	Re: Challenge for Grassroots rule # 1 no free parts, must be all stock and car can be bought for $ 4.000.oo max(accounting for labour). I'm sure that we could come up with a great set of rules. CR

12-25-2011, 10:14 AM	#5
Billy Nees VIP Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: On a hilltop in Pa. Posts: 4,486 Likes: 3,587 Liked 7,683 Times in 1,731 Posts	Re: Challenge for Grassroots Way back in the day a bunch of us got together and formed a rather loose club we called the Buzzard Bros. We would constantly try to outdo each other by seeing who could go the fastest the cheapest. Learned a lot and had a bunch of fun. We did learn very early in our games that we had to deal with the free, used, borrowed and donated stuff. What we wound up doing was, at our meetings, we would argue out a "value" for everything. It sounds difficult but we made it work. I miss those days. __________________ Billy Nees 1188 STK, SS I'm not spending 100K to win 2K

12-25-2011, 10:25 AM	#6
Rich Biebel VIP Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Northern New Jersey suburbs Posts: 2,314 Likes: 25 Liked 544 Times in 213 Posts	Re: Challenge for Grassroots I saw the back end and tailights of a whie Camaro with "buzzard" shoe polished on the back window at least once..... A big guy was driving it at the time called "the Foot" LOL... Merry Christmas Billy.... __________________ Rich Biebel S/C 1479 Stock 147R