914 Rental race car ??

Brad Roberts · 08-07-2002, 06:07 PM

Would you pay 1500$ for a open track day of testing or 2000$ for a PCA club racing weekend in a well prepared 914 ??

Arrive and drive style ??

I have a car I am building for PCA/SCCA and I'm thinking about renting the car out. Full crew and drivers support for any west coast events.

Do you think it would fly ??

B

brain009 · 08-07-2002, 06:13 PM

Gary at Parts Obsolete does the same thing with a couple of his nine elebens for historic races and such, with the whole crew there as well (not sure what he charges, didn't ask because I know that I can't afford it). I think it's a cool idea

GWN7 · 08-07-2002, 06:29 PM

There are schools for top fuel, formula ect.

If no one offers it in your area why not give it a try. All it could cost is some advertising to find out.

Checked the web and they list about 12 schools/rental companys.

I'd be interested, but then after I'd want to come home and stuff more hp under the trunk lid

Zeke · 08-07-2002, 07:06 PM

I think having the car available for driver's ed/licensing would be useful. And less wear and tear on the car given the milder behavior expected with instructor in there with you.

John Rogers · 08-07-2002, 07:18 PM

How about damage from crashes, broken engines or transmissions, as I imagine the driver is responsible? A couple of support places in the SO CAL area that provide "everything" so you can arrive and drive change about $2000 for a 2 day race weekend and that is with YOUR car. That also cover hotel and meals though. Good idea I think.

Brad Roberts · 08-07-2002, 10:17 PM

All great points.

It would come under the "you wreck it, you fix it title"

I'm thinking more private run groups days than anything.

Where we rent a local track and you get to burn up a set of tires and 4-5 tanks of gas with and without instructors.

Then have licensing days.

As far the power goes: I would have one of my very fast track buddies/me run a few PCA Time trial events in the car and make sure the car was dialed in for class records. This way we would know if the renter sucked or if the car sucked...LOL

Everybody thinks they are fast until you put the stop watch on them... then when they are slow.. they blame it on the lack of power. I have a few words for those people (Learn to drive) take another driving school instead of buying a 3k dollar exhaust system.

Keep it coming.

B

Ron Meier · 08-08-2002, 10:32 PM

My bro-in-law went to Sears Point Bondurant School - thought he was real ricky racer and stuffed the car into an embankment. Instructor commented "I said brake for the turns, not break the turns" or something that roughly translated to that. He finally admitted he entered the turn "just a tad hot".

Until his wife made him get rid of it, he had a $3500 coffee table made form left front parts.

You wreck it, you pay to fix it!!!!!!! (Usually promotes smoooooth driving).

campbellcj · 10:53 PM

I spend waaaay too much time around lawyers.

You would obviously have to have a rental contract that addressed certain issues, i.e. indemnification of yourself against any damages resulting from parts failure and so forth. In other words if a guy completely looses it, whether something actually failed or not, he could blame it on improper construction, lug nuts not torqued or that kind of BS. Or (god forbid) there's a fire or something, the suits could claim that there was a bad fuel line or whatever.

Also you would have to establish a fair market value for the car and also a "reference standard" (such as a neutral third-party body shop) to provide a valuation guideline for various types of damage. So if somebody managed to really crunch it up into a ball, there would be an agreed-upon in advance amount. Or if they just bent or busted something, there would be a neutral party or open market parts-source agreed upon in advance to establish the repair cost.

Just random thoughts...I'm not a lawyer nor do I play one on TV but you have to cover your a$$ these days.