A question?

[Gary Smith]

Originally Posted by Tim Kish

I saw that - didn't look like you thought she should buy it.

Yup. I told her she was crazy. But hey, not my money. Her name is Elaine Larsen who runs a jet car with her husband Chris. I met them shortly after my dad's death and are really good people. They were there to promote their sponsor btw. She wanted me to check the car out and give my opinion. I said no more than 23k. Although her husband couldn't stay the weekend he did check it out Wednesday and figured 25k. So she asked me to assist in bidding. I told her we needed to hold back & drive the bids in $500 increments, but her emotions took over at $25k. Oh well. It was fun & they are both happy with their new toy. (Bob Varsha's comments could put me in divorce court though!!)

[Gary Smith]

The ultimate BJ bidder is one of ridiculous amounts of money, no common sense, and enormous amounts of pride that make up for lack of manhood. Trust me, you have to be there to see it. There's no telling what drives desire to pay stupid amounts of money for some of these cars. They don't think like most of us. They possess very little mechanical knowledge and it shows when talking with them. It's all about having the hottest babe, owning the most popular cars, and boasting of all their famous car friends. It's rather amusing in some cases. With the two early Mustangs I've inhereted, I simply went to check out other fastbacks and watch how they do. Or better yet, to see how many fools still exsist in this stagnate economy.

Saturday night ought to be fun to watch. Some really nice GT500s, several Cobra Jets, and some interesting Mopars. Didn't see too many Vettes this year. Yenko seems to be the rage right now.

[mannymen]

You guys keep spending this kind of stupid money on your race cars and racing will eventually die. The younger generations don't want anything to do with this due to these high costs, but if Floyd Red Neck keeps paying 5K for a stocker head using his retirement and credit cards then die it will. Once the old timers paying this type of money are gone who will then poney up for these over priced cars? Do we really need the 400 GPH fuel pumps or Digital Ignitions on are 10-11 second stockers or 9 second SS'ers. Overkill!

Higher operating costs require higher entry fees by track owners and the racers need higher payouts (which isn't going to happen) to offset the cost of their six figure operations. Nobody wants to race their million dollar piece for $500 dollar payouts, so they don't show up. Tracks won't pay higher payouts and will therefore lose weekly entries and will eventually close. This is already happening if you have been paying attention. Heck some of the bigger tracks are only running special races.

It will come to a point where you as the racer will say I can no longer afford it. Diesel prices have already cut car counts.

[fredjohnston]

Originally Posted by Don Kennedy

a question?
While watching watching Barrett Jackson I was wondering .
What Would a 1969 Camero go for if the car was the Very first A/SA to show a 9 second run on the score boards and did a pan off Tear Down to prove legality complete with pictures (See Four Days in May Video), The very first 1969 Camaro AA/SA class to run in the Nines, the Very First 1969 Camaro to win Class , , the very first 1969 Camaro to set the national record at a 9:71 @ 134.24 mph and tore down to prove legality ?? Any Ideas????? $200,000 ? $300,00??

Are you drunk?

[Dick Butler]

Don, Your turn to have the target on you.... Seriously looking at the price paid for Ray Allens car I believe it was mostly time related. The age of the population of Baby Boomers who had money and remembered the performances of the car. The AA/SA car of today is just worth "todays values" of parts plus for being fast today. It might bring something higher in 10 or 20 years if the population of car lovers still has the fever the baby boomers carry for our drag racing days and cars in general.
I wonder what the alcohol level in the crowd is when they get up the excitement to bid up these cars. Todays economy scares probably has the values more depressed than last year..... These cars are afterall an "investment" excuse for most at those prices. They fluctuate too I think like the markets...