1ST Gen Race Car Build
01-25-08, 04:04 PM
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1ST Gen Race Car Build
Well we are moving our 1st gen car to the dealership to finish the build for this upcoming vintage race season. It is a wide-body with a 12A Peripheral port and a Mazdacomp racing 4spd trans. Feel free to drop by and watch the progress! Move in will be within 7 days! The car will be number 11 and wear the same decal package as the 01 car!
Wow! the car looks great. Hopefully you can run this one at Cayuga next season. Lok forward to more pics.
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01-30-08, 08:47 AM
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Great Work Al
What I find amazing is that with some cleanup and some money put back into the car, everybody likes it again. This car was for sale for years and the price kept dropping and nobody touched it. The bodywork, wheels and parts were all there when Al bought it.
I can't remember the exact purchase price, but I recall that Al bought it for around a grand. With a coat of paint and some cleanup it is desireable again. I know of a few cars just like the ex-Rotenburg RX7. Great cars for somebody to get for lapping cars or cheap fast race cars. Nobody wants them and they have fallen out of favour and the prices are plummeting.
It never pays to build your own first track car. Set a budget and hunt around. There are already built cars sitting there that you can buy for $.10 on the dollar.
Anybody know what happened to the GT3 RX3 that was in Scarborough for years. The car was for sale for under $3,000 last time Al and I saw it, but it has since dissappeared. That would be a cool car to start out with.
Eric
I can't remember the exact purchase price, but I recall that Al bought it for around a grand. With a coat of paint and some cleanup it is desireable again. I know of a few cars just like the ex-Rotenburg RX7. Great cars for somebody to get for lapping cars or cheap fast race cars. Nobody wants them and they have fallen out of favour and the prices are plummeting.
It never pays to build your own first track car. Set a budget and hunt around. There are already built cars sitting there that you can buy for $.10 on the dollar.
Anybody know what happened to the GT3 RX3 that was in Scarborough for years. The car was for sale for under $3,000 last time Al and I saw it, but it has since dissappeared. That would be a cool car to start out with.
Eric
01-30-08, 02:17 PM
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Eric is exactly right. We paid $1000.00 for the car with lots of junk that went with it. We sorted through that stuff and tossed what we didnt want. The car has a MazdaComp 4spd racing transmission that came with it, we just got offered $5000.00 for it from a guy in Sweden! The 1st gen will still cost about $30000.00 when all done, and thats not charging for any labor involved in building it. To replicate the 01 car, starting from a 1990 rolling chassis, you realistically would spend between $50,000 and $70,000 depending on if you paid for labor etc. The moral of the story is always let some other idiot spend all the money and then buy it cheap! (lol)
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What I find amazing is that with some cleanup and some money put back into the car, everybody likes it again. This car was for sale for years and the price kept dropping and nobody touched it. The bodywork, wheels and parts were all there when Al bought it.
I can't remember the exact purchase price, but I recall that Al bought it for around a grand. With a coat of paint and some cleanup it is desireable again. I know of a few cars just like the ex-Rotenburg RX7. Great cars for somebody to get for lapping cars or cheap fast race cars. Nobody wants them and they have fallen out of favour and the prices are plummeting.
It never pays to build your own first track car. Set a budget and hunt around. There are already built cars sitting there that you can buy for $.10 on the dollar.
Anybody know what happened to the GT3 RX3 that was in Scarborough for years. The car was for sale for under $3,000 last time Al and I saw it, but it has since dissappeared. That would be a cool car to start out with.
Eric
I can't remember the exact purchase price, but I recall that Al bought it for around a grand. With a coat of paint and some cleanup it is desireable again. I know of a few cars just like the ex-Rotenburg RX7. Great cars for somebody to get for lapping cars or cheap fast race cars. Nobody wants them and they have fallen out of favour and the prices are plummeting.
It never pays to build your own first track car. Set a budget and hunt around. There are already built cars sitting there that you can buy for $.10 on the dollar.
Anybody know what happened to the GT3 RX3 that was in Scarborough for years. The car was for sale for under $3,000 last time Al and I saw it, but it has since dissappeared. That would be a cool car to start out with.
Eric
I'd love to find that RX-3...I saw it in autotrader years ago for $3000. I'd buy it in a heartbeat right now.
01-30-08, 06:21 PM
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I last saw the car was when I went to BUY it in 2004. The deal was $1000.00 but it had to start. We went over and the engine was seized. Like the 1st gen we are working, it had to be redone from the cage up. It would have been like starting from ground zero, I realized that, however once you added the cost of a new engine it was way more than the car would ever be worth........I should say more than the loss you would take selling it after it was complete. The 1st gen project already has $13,000 spent on it and its still chassis with engine and trans. As we tear into it tonight...............it needs lots more money!
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