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Originally Posted by gordner
Their 60 K car is owned by the bank. Not so easy to work that with a race car/team.
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it turns out money is just money. its pretty easy to turn 1000+ dollar car payment + insurance into a cheap truck, race car, and 3 seasons of racing. paying to bank, or paying to the SCCA, its all money. as some point they committed to spending it, just a matter of picking better things to spend it on.
i did the same math. for much of my 20s my goal was to own both my 944 turbo, and a 997.2 C2S. and when i was ~27 years old, i was in the position to buy the 997, and said ... wait, why spend 35-40 grand (this was what 7 years ago?) on a 997 over the next 3 years, when i could buy a truck, trailer, race car, and race for a year or two on that budget.
and so thats what i did. as soon as i started actually racing, i quickly sold all my nice street cars including the 944 turbo, because they are pointless.