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| posted on 19/6/11 at 03:32 PM |
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Apparently a Caterham can be sold to pay for an impending honeymoon, 
or that's the plan so my son tells me.
Although where they are going that costs £11k god only knows.
Personally I'd keep the car and have a weekend in Clacton. 
Cheers,
Paul G
 
1600 Vx Caterham
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JimSpencer
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| posted on 19/6/11 at 04:03 PM |
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By Eck there's some opinionated folk about arn't there..
The car in question (if it's the one I think it is) is very quick and very well peddaled too, and I believe changed hands S/H for about £15k not
so long ago too, so what the OP posted was factually correct.
Plus
The number of people in the hillclimb scene that arn't nice people you can count on one hand IMHO - everybody's along for the crac.
But
It's got very little to do with brands or £'s (unless you count time and experience, I suppose you can theoretically buy both..)
it's nearly all to do with setup and driving.
However
There's no 'stand out' brand in the hill (or sprint) record holders for the Specialist production and Mod Prod classes, Westfield
and Sylva have got a good chunk too, as have a few 'others' - what actually normally happens is a good car/driver combination come along
and set a few records and a few years later then get beat by another good car / driver combination.
I know the spec of most of the quick cars in Specialist production and there's very few that you probably couldn't buy for the £15k
mentioned (if they came up for sale) and several that you could very easily build for that budget, but then of course comes setting it up and driving
it..
Or you could just buy a 1100cc class single seater AND a tidy locost with the change
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daniel mason
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| posted on 19/6/11 at 05:27 PM |
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thanks jim. hes a really nice guy too.really enjoyed chatting to him, and having a good look round his car.
out of curiosity jim; what are you allowed to do to the cars to compete in the up to 1400cc class?
as i noticed the caterham was on slicks, as was the megabusa in the same class! can you turbo/supercharge etc? or do engines have to be standard?
cheers
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JimSpencer
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| posted on 20/6/11 at 08:01 AM |
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Hi
Ok these were the entry regulations for the event:-
Barbon Regs
So on page one we have the applicable classes, for what's commonly known as a 'Locaterfield' (i.e. anything 7 like!) you're
looking at either:-
2A / 2B / 2C if the cars' road legal, taxed, insured and MOT'd
3F / 3G / 3H if the cars non road legal.
In classes 2, the car will obviously need all the requirements to drive it there (and some folks do - did it myself for years) so fully road legal
PLUS it must have reverse, and in the North West series it'll need a windscreen for most championships too. Tyres to MSA list 1B (i.e. Road
Legal soft trackday rubber - Avon ZZR, Toyo R888, Yoko A048's etc)
In class 3 anything goes, so no lights, screens, no reverse needed and you run very soft racing slicks, Avon A15 compound and the like, plus a set of
wets too.
In any of the classes the engine mods allowed are pretty much free, but forced induction has a multiplier of 1.4 applied to it (i.e. a 1200 Turbo: -
1200*1.4 = 1680, therefore in the up to 1700cc class) the engine has to remain where it was intended by the manufacturer and come from a land based
vehicle they made 5000 of - so pretty much any production car or bike unit.
This is a National B level meeting (regional & clubmans) so you'll find pretty much these classes are the same nationwide, but with minor
variation i.e. in a lot of the country 2C & 3H wouldn't exist and the bike engined stuff is lumped in, and you wouldn't need a screen
in the 2's classes down south.
In addition the classes numbering can change too - you go off the description which doesn't.
Hillclimbing classes (and sprints) sound complicated rules wise, but they're not once you get involved even as a spectator, it's just that
they deal with mulltiple classes within one discipline and event so it looks much worse than it actually is!
HTH
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