Pel

Some interest is from RL community, but so far 60 watchers.

Had a chat with Kevin Etches about his old cup car today, temptation is a nasty sinkhole, need to stay the path.

kiwi 911

^^^ I get tempted too.

Just remember buying a cup car is the cheap bit - you need a technician to run one if you race it and to budget $40-50K every 2-3 years for a box and engine rebuild. I don't believe Kev did either of these, so you are now 1-2 years before you see this bill.

If you are OK spending $5K every race weekend and taking the big hit above every few years then go for it!!

The other problem with a 996 cup car is you only have 1 person to race against - they have all moved up to 7.2 Cup Cars and will move onto 991's as soon as their racing budgets and 991 Cup Car availability comes along.

Everyone (including Kev) will steer you towards a 944 race car.

Cup cars are for rich people or people who are happy to spend all their spare cash racing.

Macca

Hate to break this to you mate, but he doesn't exist...

kiwi 911

Lucky Gracie is not on RL to see this. She was hoping Santa was going to get her this (it matches the flowers on her dress).

Pel

I know Paul, dreams are free. Watching Brian Johnson "Cars That Rock" lap a 917 and other tasty stuff.

Macca

Yeah. I think you are spot on there Paul. The older cars getting trickier with parts. Many parts were never sold over the counter but only via Porsche Mtrs Sport approved agents and direct to race teams. Most teams are now with the 991 GT3 and thus parted out their inventories a few years ago. Unless you are states based it means readiful supplies are scarce and you must remember that Porsche do not support the parts for Motorsport cars like they d road cars (i.e. they stop holding stock within a few years of the car becoming superseded and usually d a bulk deal to move any inventory they hold to Fresener or one of the larger specialists parts guys in Europe/USA.

I think you culd learn alot more in the SC.

Its just a shame that the Pierelli Series is so thin it cant really support more than 2 classes (IMO B class is a bit of a non mans land these days). You are either up their with the big boys (and even then there are big boys and BIG BOYS) or you are back in C class with the guys who have a more realistic budget. C class appears the best ROI but lacks the variety of machinery (911s).

In the perfect world you would have 30 spread across A+, A & B and then a separate spec series (boxster/cayenne or 924/44) of say 15 cars.

The days of having 45 people racing in the series are long gone unfortunately. Its become a more expensive sport too.

kiwi 911

Haven't watched that one yet, it's saved on my harddrive.

I'm hooked on Chasing Classic Cars with Wayne Careni and the Barrett Jackson auction show. Even getting Jen into it.

Pel - if you have an itch for more speed, buy a GT3 or put a 3.6 in your SC - Steve's RS is awesome with the 3.6 and good for 14's.

Just enjoy the SC - Razzo says it's good for 17's, my C3 was doing 19's, so dial the car in and hunt the 3 sec you are missing (and enjoy using 964's as mobile road cones - very cathartic).

Push “buy now” on Chuck’s suspension track package – $6K later and you will find a lazy second………

Thankfullly he doesn't advertise GT3 packages on his page.

Though I do get tempted to dail out the 3.2 slop with a street perf package - no change out of $6K there either.

I need to take the 3.2 for a back road run to get some cow **** under the guards and see how much of a difference replacing 14 yr old tyres makes??

Pel

Mate I'm very happy with the SC, its a fun little car, I can pull parts apart myself and do simple upgrades here and there.

Plan to get a couple of TACCOC races in 2016.

996tnz

In case anyone missed the pre-roll that a large car company starting with 'T' swiftly pulled from Star Wars showings:

Take me home

Questionable taste and probably hilarious or awful depending on your bent. Bowled my share of possums, deer and ducks - though hapuka are still to oblige - and nice to see someone still willing to take risks in advertising but it really doesn't resonate with me. I can see what they were trying to do, but once was more than enough. Gives me that 'uncanny valley' effect.

Macca

Im lost for words...

John McM

The target market probably finds it hilarious. I imagine that's a fairly small group. It certainly doesn't include me. Sometimes too smart isn't that smart http://articles.philly.com/1992-06-2...-male-stripper

John McM

Are any of the episodes post 2012? Just asking in case they are ones I haven't seen yet.

PHG

I see the guy in Pommieland has not bought your GT3 Paul..

996tnz

I wouldn't see too many of that group along to see the latest Star Wars though, so who knows what they were on when they dreamt this up. Maybe there's a pub somewhere in the country where this might pass, but I can't even imagine it going down that well at a Deerstalkers Association meeting.

Associating your vehicle with death or the living dead seems a bit counterproductive. Not keen myself on ads where cars have (or induce) psychopathic personas either - that 'pied piper' treachery and the 'marriage wars' ones come to mind.

I think they tried to 'outbugger' their wildly successful ute and dog ad but fell flat on their face?

Pel

Had the front bumper off the SC a couple of weeks ago, noticed the impact reinforcement bar tube was crumpled, assumed it was a bad repair and ordered new bars. New ones arrived today. Turns out this is normal, I'm such a Turkey.