Originally Posted by
Rocky
What I did was I was running the 4 cylinder junk car class at Potomac for a few years back in the 2000's and I used to drink a lot so I thought I was a way better mechanic than I was. I could have went hobby stock or street stock but I used to live my life about half in the bag. So I bought some clapped out old heap for really cheap and struggled for years running a or 2 show here or there usually having something break. I know plenty about late models now, not saying I'm some ace late model mechanic now or anything either but there's a WAAAAAAAY easier and cheaper way to learn than what I did. It pretty much took quitting drinking totally to figure it out too. The irony of all this is, I've been involved in racing since about 1989 mostly as a crew member, pre USN that was on asphalt. I already knew this much but the problem was I thought I knew too much. If I wasn't about the most stubborn guy on the East Coast I would have given up years ago. LOLCan you get a good older car? Yeah, you absolutely can and you do that by going and working with somebody and helping and they say you know man we have this 2014 or 15 _________ collecting dust we could sell you and you can get it updated but we have all the notes on it and stuff for now. Or maybe even that's the car that you're working on and they upgrade, you buy a car that you already have your own notes on.