Yeah, back in the days of hanging out at our dealer and helping him out, trying to push these cars onto existing drivers of other divisions was like swimming through tar. Strike 2 was when they sealed the 1250. LOL this is dirt racing man.. A dirt racer is a professional at all levels of racing from chassis set-up, driving to engine rebuild. Most dirt racers will stick their dollar into their race car before using it for food on the table. Once again I will question the value of this chassis package down to the point of (yes) financing. LOL, go to your bank and tell them you want a loan for one of these and first question to back up the loan is... insurance ?? Now you have to try to get it insured to get the loan. Most insurance companies will laugh you out the the door but there is some out there that offer it. Now... realistically... If you did gather up a loan and secure insurance, you haven't raced yet and look how much you are paying for the Mod. Next you go to the race track with it and not enough of the cars show up for the division so the track eather cuts the pay for winning down to nothing or drops the division all together. You are stuck with an expensive lawn mower without a deck.....
Remember starting in the competition realm ?? Get a car handed to you for nothing then eather strip it down and derby it or have a buddy weld a cage into it in their garage for free after you found some pipe laying around. Building the engine if you blew it up was second nature and you knew you could make it more powerfull and reliable by time you were done. As you got better you moved up in the ranks on dirt from like Hobby division to Street division by adding better tires and wheels. Other racers who shared your joy found ways to make it cheaper for you, like the crate engine you mention at a decent price....
Along comes Legends Cars that takes all the learning away other than set-up and driving skills. Better yet, now a way overpriced chassis introduced that we are supposed to make fly at our local race tracks. They sure are not looking at boosting car counts at dirt tracks introducing an overpriced chassis and by No means are they helping the race tracks gain driver counts for thee same reason. I question why they introduced the chassis at all !
If they want to get this new chassis up and going as a division at our local dirt tracks, they need to step down and set-up a low introduction price to get drivers out there competing in them on a local level to sell more product. If they had half a brain they would offer the chassis cheap and raise the price of parts to make up for profit loss on initial sale of the chassis. They aren't going to sell any parts if there is no cars out there competing !! Talk about shooting yourself in the foot at the administrative level of the company... Especially in the economic times us dirt racers are living. I've been told it is southern mentality in the sport but am not going to point finger at more than I already have.... I do know that if I was the Chief Commacho at USLC, things would be different and they may actually see some higher yearly dollar income numbers, from changes I would make...
... But hey, I'm just a Gimp...
