Formula Vee
 

There is an old formula Vee race car for sale local to me. Man I bet it would make a fun autocrosser / track day car! I have seen these at autocrosses before and they look like lots of fun. Big fat tires and the rules say you can put a 1900 in it….

I had one back in the early 90s.... my first open wheel car. It was a Photon, if I remember. What a low-tech POS! Cheap, though :)

Well, cheap is what I had in mind.

There was one for sale in Ontario a couple years ago that was street legal... had been licensed when new!

I had a Caldwell D-13 Guy I sold it to, used it for autocross.

Cheap, fun, and pretty simple to maintain.

I race a vintage vee. I have not autocrossed it. You won't be allowed to do track days with clubs. Blending open wheel and closed won't happen. You may be allowed to do a test and tune day with a local vintage club or at a road course under other circumstances but they will be few and far between. Check out vintage racing in your area, it's a blast and in our region Vees are plentiful and very competitive.

Vee values run the gamut. A pos car will be cheap and then need a bunch of work to be competitive, reliable and safe. If you are a competent mechanic and/or can do the welding and body work then you are way ahead of the game. Just be careful of that $3,000 Vee that's been sitting for years. You will be much happier with a current car that has a fresh engine. A recently competitive car is for sale in our region with ok paint. $10,000.

My car last summer. Zink C-4 :D

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Theres a quick snapshot of it. needs everything. the motor is blown and its been sitting for years.

500, tops. At a 1000 you won't be able to scrap what you can and throw away the rest because you will into it too much.

I hear that can be the most dangerous class in all of racing. Get a kart instead.

If was cheap enough, I could see myself buying that just to dick around with whether I ended up actually autocrossing it or not..... hmmmm.... Where is this thing at? :D

he wants 2k for it. After finding out that it is nothing more than a frame I would not give more than 500.00 for it. Its up in Cedar, MN

Be careful. The only integrity that thing has is the frame. I've seen the tubing rusted from the inside out to where it may not be that obvious. I wouldn't touch it if its been sitting outside exposed for a significant period of time. No way that thing is worth $2k. I have a documented RCA Vee in excellent shape, good suspension, original bodywork, etc. minus engine and trans I'd let go for that and that car was race ready and driven in 2009. I took the engine and trans out of it to put in the Zink.