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Re: When $500 isn't $500

pennintj wrote:

It's like the Special Olympics, only for cars.

While sooo wrong, that should be the new motto!

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Re: When $500 isn't $500

pennintj wrote:

My interpretation? Leave the "price cap" alone.

Technically, the $500 "buyout" covers the problem of "cheater" cars.

It should be enough of a threat that if you show up with an old Celica GT-S All-Trac that you'd plopped a nice low-miler JDM engine out of you can rest assured not only would it win the curse, but *someone* in the Judges stands should hand your team $500 faster than you can say "Where's the ATM!"


-=Tom

It should be, Tom, but they never claim any cars. After they claim a car or two, that threat will actually mean something.  I hope they claim the Craptation at Stafford.  smile

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Re: When $500 isn't $500

You got to be careful Nick Pon's Ecrappe alladente is going to die someday and his next car could be yours!
So be very quiet they're watching !!

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Re: When $500 isn't $500

I've never looked at a car and thought we could sell off enough parts to get it under $500.

We did use two cars that combined cost $350.  Sold off some parts to cover the cost to put the motor together and that was about it.  Our shiny motor has been under suspecion ever since.

Compared to so many examples I've seen, we were conservative.

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Re: When $500 isn't $500

LTDScott wrote:
RobL wrote:

A consideration might be to not allow people to sell things off thier car to reclaim $$$.

Our BMW is running in the San Diego Grand Challenge ($1000 version of Grassroots Motorsports $2009 Challenge) and they allow only $500 worth of parts to be sold off the car and deducted off the value of the car.

The $500 limit on sales is a good idea, but I don't think it needs to be considered just yet.  Maybe in the future though. 

-Scott

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Re: When $500 isn't $500

I think claiming a few of the cheater cars would stop a *lot* of this crap.  Hell, turn around and sell the parts off the cars to the highest bidder or let people donate a few bucks to hit it with hammers...

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Re: When $500 isn't $500

When I built the Lemon Demolition car we  bought 2 crxs for$800 and took all the good parts off both ,built  one then sold  the parts off and had a but load of spares for frogger car

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just worry when Jay shows up with his trailer empty and a sign on the side that says "Your Lemon Here!"

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