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Road Side Pub
Definition of Street Car?
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<blockquote data-quote="oilwell1415" data-source="post: 9689829" data-attributes="member: 58424"><p>It sounds like you and 30 of your friends have enough money that it shouldn't matter anyway. For that $2k you could have put a solid axle in it and not had to worry about it. BTW, you're the one making exuses, not me.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I've had to have my daily driver and my wife's car towed, and I spent the last 10 years as a mechanic. I'm pretty familiar with what it costs to have something towed, so let's do the math on this. Around here I can buy a 16ft flatbed with ramps for about $2k, and that would not be my first choice for a trailer. A tow is $43 hookup plus $2.85/mile. That means a trailer doesn't break even until you're about 700 miles from home. Most of us will never race that far away from home, never mind doing it regularly. The average tow is less than $100, so you'd have to do it 20 times for the trailer to break even. If you have to register and insure your trailer (we don't have to here) it takes even longer.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't go with the intention of breaking something. I do my best to plan my mods so I don't have to worry about it. Hell, it's probably been 2 years since I even went to a dragstrip. It's a lot more fun to go to the roadtrack, beat on my truck for 2-3 hours and come home than it is to go to the drags, run hard for less than a minute and drive home.</p><p></p><p>If you aren't searching for credit, why did you need to mention your 3 hour drive to justify the use of a trailer?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Just a few posts ago you were telling us you ran on stock wheels and tires. This is the second time you've mentioned your track tires. Which is it? Street tires or slicks? If you're running slicks it isn't a street car based on that anyway, and that has been stated by several people in the thread.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If you drive it to the track and break something you have a street car and know exactly what you next mod(s) will be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oilwell1415, post: 9689829, member: 58424"] It sounds like you and 30 of your friends have enough money that it shouldn't matter anyway. For that $2k you could have put a solid axle in it and not had to worry about it. BTW, you're the one making exuses, not me. I've had to have my daily driver and my wife's car towed, and I spent the last 10 years as a mechanic. I'm pretty familiar with what it costs to have something towed, so let's do the math on this. Around here I can buy a 16ft flatbed with ramps for about $2k, and that would not be my first choice for a trailer. A tow is $43 hookup plus $2.85/mile. That means a trailer doesn't break even until you're about 700 miles from home. Most of us will never race that far away from home, never mind doing it regularly. The average tow is less than $100, so you'd have to do it 20 times for the trailer to break even. If you have to register and insure your trailer (we don't have to here) it takes even longer. I don't go with the intention of breaking something. I do my best to plan my mods so I don't have to worry about it. Hell, it's probably been 2 years since I even went to a dragstrip. It's a lot more fun to go to the roadtrack, beat on my truck for 2-3 hours and come home than it is to go to the drags, run hard for less than a minute and drive home. If you aren't searching for credit, why did you need to mention your 3 hour drive to justify the use of a trailer? Just a few posts ago you were telling us you ran on stock wheels and tires. This is the second time you've mentioned your track tires. Which is it? Street tires or slicks? If you're running slicks it isn't a street car based on that anyway, and that has been stated by several people in the thread. If you drive it to the track and break something you have a street car and know exactly what you next mod(s) will be. [/QUOTE]
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