RossD wrote:irish44j wrote: no, it just means everyone will be "vintage racing" a couple decades from now in really really old Miatas and e30s and whatnot. well, at least me.You can already put Collector Car Plates on those cars in Wisconsin!!! You're vintage racing now!
My rally e30 is on antique plates too ;)
Hell, the Acura Integra I drove in college is legal for antique plates now!
I am about to put an antique plate on my miata.
Vigo wrote:I guess we could all stock up on cars from the 80's and 90's and just keep driving those forever?Correct.
I'll be the guy in his 80's driving the Miata / E30 / MR2
There's always these. Automatics are illegal in FF.
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In reply to Vigo: One of the realities is that transmissions, even properly shifted manual transmissions wear out.
I own a 1953 MGTD and while there are replacement gears available, replacing them does not yield a nice shifting transmission.. 60+ year old gears don't play nice with freshly machined gears.. Replacing everything winds up being insanely expensive (I'd bet over $5000) Plus you still would have to re-machine and re-bush the old case. Yes there are more modern transmissions that can be adapted but those are still 30 or more years old to start with before they get rebuilt..
Jaguars a decade newer already are at that same point. I'm sure that others such as Austin Healy/ Triumph/etc. remain running because their owners drive very little and or have spare gearboxes from rusty/ruined relics of the past.
Your Miata's etc. will soon be in that situation
Armitage wrote:Toyman01 wrote: A lot newer drivers don't want to drive, much less shift.... and when self-driving cars are the norm in the next decade or two, they won't have to at all. And where will that leave the racers? You think companies will still make traditional human-operated cars at that point or only the kit car companies?
Road racers will probably come up with a similar solution circle track racers came to when cheap mid sized RWD cars disappeared. A generic tube frame with a newer looking body on it. It will be good because they are in a lot of ways easier to maintain and more durable than a production car plus the guys that are too old to keep racing get to moan about how back in the good old days Showroom Stock cars used to be stock and now the world is ending.
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