Unbelievable Score!

Sorry, $ 999 so already $ 499 over budget
4: VEHICLE PRICE

    * 4.1: Total Investment in Vehicle Can Not Exceed $500: Except for items described in Rules 4.2 and 4.3, the total spent to purchase and prepare any car may not exceed $500.
                + 4.1.1: Lame-Ass Rationalizations: Cars that "should be" worth $500 don't count; cars that "were worth $500" before you spent another $2000 to fix them don't count; cars you've owned for 20 years and spent more than $500 on during that time don't count; "it would have been worth $500 if it didn't already have a cage" doesn't count. Five hundred dollars means five hundred frickin' dollars.

Or I could be totally confused
Unless you can get a receipt that says you paid $ 500 for the car and $ 499 for the cage
And are you sure the cage will pass tech ?

The cages look good. We will have to add the diagonal bar behind the driver seat but thats it. Looks like we may be having to pull that co-driver brake pedal out to sell it to lower the car cost. Selling all the metal for scrap from those giant crash bumpers will help too. Haha!

Nerf bars will have to come off - not allowed.

3.13: Nerf Bars Not Allowed: Added structural elements that extend past the original bodywork line are not allowed. In other words, no nerf bars, wheel-protection cages, or crash bars. (Worried about your car being damaged? Here's an idea--don't hit anyone.)

I love the nerf bars. Yes, they'll have to go, but perhaps you could build exact duplicates in PVC and mount those?

By the by, they won't put those on the public sales list here in Sac - I get to see them drive from the classroom to the training grounds about once a month on Saturday... makes people slow down a bunch, even at 6am!

These all came from West Sac. I use to work at the Cummins dealership right next to the track. We would watch them run around the track all the time. It was torture to listen to them out there sliding around all day.

With four of them, you have at least one to loan out as a judgemobile. I'd make it one with the nerf bars still attached.

Well unless some of you guys are interested in standing in a make shift line to PIT maneuver your friend / wife / possibly the judges, for an undisclosed amount of money, I dont see a whole lot we can do with the damn things. Our v8 BMW and Pinto are hardly worthy of making it both days but it never stops us from trying. We just thought it would be cool to actually have a chance at finishing with one car. Maybe the 2 of these we're trying to bring will make it the whole race.

If this were a thunderhill or infineon race we would most definitely be offering one for the judge mobile. Unfortunately Buttonwillow is a tad too far for us to bring a 3rd car to. Now if someone from the sac area has the means to tow one of them down there for them it could happen. I'm pretty sure they would have some fun with the passenger brake pedal much like we did. It's fun to hit at unexpected times when your buddy is trying to carefully back the car out from in between cars of actual value.

How has nobody else yet pointed out out that these cars are the perfect starting point for this?  If you build it, they will come!

I would stay on them about the actual track cars. They are being replaced by the 500+ hp dodges. And yeah we have the means to tow them down there but just cant afford to do it. It looks like 2 of these will be turned into Lemons cars and the other 2 will be turned into dirt track cars for a new class starting up at our home track. That's a great idea with the front down bars. Cant wait to see what these will do at buttonwillow. I know the blue whale tail car has always been fast when we have ran with it.

Eh, they probably can be if the nerfs are cut off unless they did something funky with the titles, or hacked up emissions or the frame. CHP's normal cars are all over the damned resale market. They're the 'run down horrible $500' ones. Seriously, CHP chews those things to pieces. I'd thought they practice PITs with their actual road cars the beating they get.

Small towns and departments tend to provide the good ones reasonable human beings would want to drive.

I say you combine both nerf cages as the basis for an Eiffel Tower theme.

Bonus points for actually using it as an antenna for team communication.