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Wow! I'm out two weeks and there's a whole new look and a new motorsports forum when I return.
bbp....impressive....that's all I can say.
I got my first taste several years ago (I think I was 12) when I tagged along with a friend of my parents to a dirt oval kart race. Competition was scarce that night and points didn't count, so with a borrowed helmet I ran the 2nd heat for him. Of course, I sucked and I knew it....but it was fun and I wanted more.
Fast forward to '99. I stumbled upon an SCCA booth at a local car show...said they were having an autocross the next day. I showed up and watched...even rode with a guy in a miata. I was driving a truck at the time, but after much pestering and persuasion, I borrowed my Mom's Accord EX automatic and placed 5th out of 9 in HS at the next event. I was hooked. I autox'd off and on for another 1.5yr with that car, mostly getting my butt kicked. My last event in the Accord was actually the '01 Meridian Nat'l tour where I finished dead last. May '01 I used an autox to test drive a '92 240SX fastback...it's now mine and running STS with success. I ran the entire '02 season taking the PAX Open Tire Championship in this small pond MS region.
I'm currently working on a newer KA with hopes of running Street Mod by summer '03 with the help of a turbo. Me and a friend have also aquired an FC RX-7 shell, and we just bough a 13b engine/tranny/wiring harness. He's got seats and harnesses that'll work and we think we got a used roll cage pinned down. Of course, suspension and everything else will be stock, but it'll be track worthy for the "local" BR, LA road course's bracket races (like drag brackets, but on a road course...no classes), and hopefully eventually worthy for SCCA Improved Touring. As far as past track experience, I have 3 open track days (largely uninstructed at that same LA road course) in my 240.
Last edited by LanceS13; 12-26-2002 at 06:12 PM..
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