[benspeeder]

OK folks - eat your hearts out. This $500 car will be my race car - decided to keep the M030 black car for the street.



Smoking problem cleared up. Now I need a G50 LSD, race suspension, header and chip, cage. Then to the track!



http://flickr.com/photos/8969987@N06/3228874416/



Video - weird scrathing noise comes from the video - not the motor



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=13...75009&hl=en

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[pmcrespo]

Awesome! How is the timeline looking....? The only thing better than a 968 racing and passing an M3 at the track is...... well... two 968s racing and passing them pesky bimmers.... LOL...



Are you planning on racing with NASA, PCA, EMRA ?

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[benspeeder]

Hey Crespo - how goes it? Your in-car videos really helped push me towards the 968 cars - now I've got 2 :-)



Timeline may be radically accelerated. Been talking to friends and shops about which car to build and at the end of the day it will be cheaper to build my black car - particularly since it has the timing belt, cam chain done and it has a LSD installed. Plus it's got the monster M030 brakes, bars and a bunch of other race ready stuff already done.



Plan now is to sell the blue 968 and take the cash to develop my black car. I still need to get a title for the blue car - the owner in California is still looking for it and I also have a title service company standing by. They can get a title issued for $350 or I can go the DMV route for a new title but that'll take a couple of months.



It anybody is interested in the blue car shoot me a PM. Happy to make a good deal for somebody on this forum. Once I title the car it'll be worth some decent cash but I'm not greedy and will sell it without a title for a lot less. I had some great fortune on this car. As it sits with no title it's got to be worth minimum $3K.



Another question - paint it at Maaco or leave the original paint which is stained? It shines up, but the stains won't come out - not even with acetone. The stains are from pollen and grass sitting on it for years. Underneath the car has cobwebs but is very clean, no dents, no rust and has no leaks. The car is totally roadworthy.



Figure if I sell the blue car for decent coin I will have the black car race ready by April.

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[benspeeder]

OK folks - here's a video of the car restored. I have an agency getting me a NJ title and then this will go up for sale. Anybody wants to jump on it let me know. I have it our there for $4500 with no title but the price will be more when I receive the title. Agency fee to get the title is $350 and after dealing with the DMV on the first round of the process - well worth the price.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK2AvSWY_...ture=email

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[DaveN]

I'd take it right now but delivery to BC is about the same price as the car [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif[/img] It would stop my son from borrowing my car all the time. Let me know if you would like to take a nice leisurely drive, say 3000km [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img]

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[benspeeder]

Great country to live in albeit a little cold!

A lot of folks have been contacting me - I'm going away on business in Texas leaving Saturday AM and not returning until 3/12.

Cheers

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[benspeeder]

Here's an update on the 968 that I rescued. Put some magnetic numbers on it to spice up the photos. The car is now freshly painted and has a new set of 17 inch 7&9 Carrera wheels $275 - $480 shipped courtesy of eBay :-)

Car is now looking a little better than an abandon mess.

Before:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8969987@N06/3200726892/



And now pics

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8969987@N06/3404451617/

Got my black 968 with RS Barn being built for ITR racing - but the blue one looks pretty racey too.

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[rxter]

Cool pics. Thanks for sharing. Who did you race with in ASA? Used to take my boys to those races all the time. We were in western PA 1 - 3 hours from several tracks. Loved those short track guys. My older boy has Reed's rookie ASA t-shirt signed something like 3 times.

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[benspeeder]

I bought a National ASA touring car from Country Joe Racing when the national series went bust. They were a multi-championship team. My goal when I bought it was to road race it in the GTA class that was also racing with Trans AM. That would have been awesome but then Trans AM went broke.

I raced it in Super Production and GT1 with SCCA. The car was incredible. Problem was GT1 was made up of Trans AM cars that were 4 seconds a lap faster at the national level. In Super Production there just weren't enough guys and the competition wasn't there. I raced it for three years, won a couple of champsionships and then sold it. Made money too.

I bought it for $12K - it was a brand new $80K car that these guys couldn't sell because it was an LS1 motor and no circle track does fuel injection - they didn't know where to sell it. Got the national rules changed to include the LS1 engines in GT1 - that was fun - but at the end of the day I wasn't racing enough guys and I felt my skills were going to suffer. Sold it to a series that is racing these cars in GTA trim for $24K. I did wreck it once and it was $14K to fix - ouch!

I would run a 2:01 at Watkins Glen long course :-)

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[benspeeder]

So here's another chapter on the resotration of my blue 968 that I saved from laying dormant in a broken down farm shed. The car didn't have a title so I went about doing the NJ title replacement process. What a PITA. Got the lein and theft report back clean but then said screw this and looked on the web for an agency I could hire to do this work.

Found an outfit in Maine who got me a Maine title for $350. I took that the the NJ DMV got my tags, registration and title. Figured awesome - $350 well spent. No sooner did I get back to my office than I get a phone call. It's the DMV - "YOU CANNOT GET A TITLE THAT WAY YOUR STUFF IS VOID COME BACK AND GET YOUR MONEY RETURNED!"

That sucked. At least the title agency is going to refund my $350 (I'll believe that when it's back in my bank). So now I'm doing the NJ titling process - many certified letters to former banks and owner. Publishing notices in local papers, certfied letters to the police and notarized statements from 3 disinterested parties stating the car is in my possession.

Any bets how long this will take? I'm hoping I get all my stuff back in 2 weeks and can then send it to DMV in Trenton.

There I bet it will languish for at least 30-60 days.

Anyway - I have lots of new stuff for the car. Brakes, pads, radio, new mats, new shift boot. Some fun stuff to do this weekend.

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