Race8100
Well-Known Member
So, now that I have sold my 8100 truck, I feel compelled to share some of the interesting calls and emails that I fielded over the time spent trying to sell the thing. I guess this is more of a rant…
First off, IMO I advertised the truck as an 8100 truck, BITD legal. To me, if you are going to race 8100, why would you be concerned about racing any other sanctioning body? BITD is where the $$ is for that truck, and to me should be all that matters. So, all the people that called me wanting to know if the truck was SCORE legal because they wanted to race there, I just didn’t quite understand. There are so many other trucks out there that make so much more sense to purchase and race in SCORE than mine it blows me away. Be that as it may, some people wanted to race both and I can understand that. So, seeing how my truck is not SCORE legal (doesn’t have 2” cab cage), I had quite a few VERY interested people that decided (at least what they told me) that it was cheaper to build their own truck that was SCORE compliant then to convert my truck to 2”. How that made financial sense, I don’t know. Here you had a proven truck, with 3 ½ years of documented finishing results and all the bugs worked out and a truck that WORKS, ready to go and it’s better to spend who-knows how much time and $$ and DNF’s trying to get another truck ready…?? Oh well. Besides, converting my cab over would be max $4000 in labor at any shop, and then the cab could be designed to the new owners spec, right? Made sense to me.
Second, I had numerous people that called me VERY interested in the truck, ready to drive out and see it and give me a deposit (blah blah) that after they asked me for directions, would then ask me things like: are those camburg beams on the front end? Or, does it have a 4 link? Or, what major suspension modifications have you done? I’m sorry, but if you are seriously considering buying a race truck, wouldn’t you have done some research to know what 8100 (Stock Full, stock being the key word here) class is all about? Maybe it’s just me, but that seems to be fundamental.
Lastly, I had a guy call me that was (again) very interested in the truck (blah blah) that midway through the conversation (after explaining TO ME!!! what racing in a stock class is all about and how hard it is and how expensive --- as if I don’t know….!!!) that he wants to buy my truck and covert the front end to 4x4 with a SOLID FRONT AXLE!!! I wanted to drop the phone. His reasoning was that the ‘old style I-Beams/radius arms stuff is junk and doesn’t work and that a solid front axle works way better in the rough. All I wanted to do was to have him come out and let me take him for a ride in that I-Beam junk…
Oh well, the good side to the story is that my truck is going to a VERY good new (old) owner. The very guy that I bought the truck from 4 years ago has now bought it back from me. I don’t think there could’ve been a better end to this story.
First off, IMO I advertised the truck as an 8100 truck, BITD legal. To me, if you are going to race 8100, why would you be concerned about racing any other sanctioning body? BITD is where the $$ is for that truck, and to me should be all that matters. So, all the people that called me wanting to know if the truck was SCORE legal because they wanted to race there, I just didn’t quite understand. There are so many other trucks out there that make so much more sense to purchase and race in SCORE than mine it blows me away. Be that as it may, some people wanted to race both and I can understand that. So, seeing how my truck is not SCORE legal (doesn’t have 2” cab cage), I had quite a few VERY interested people that decided (at least what they told me) that it was cheaper to build their own truck that was SCORE compliant then to convert my truck to 2”. How that made financial sense, I don’t know. Here you had a proven truck, with 3 ½ years of documented finishing results and all the bugs worked out and a truck that WORKS, ready to go and it’s better to spend who-knows how much time and $$ and DNF’s trying to get another truck ready…?? Oh well. Besides, converting my cab over would be max $4000 in labor at any shop, and then the cab could be designed to the new owners spec, right? Made sense to me.
Second, I had numerous people that called me VERY interested in the truck, ready to drive out and see it and give me a deposit (blah blah) that after they asked me for directions, would then ask me things like: are those camburg beams on the front end? Or, does it have a 4 link? Or, what major suspension modifications have you done? I’m sorry, but if you are seriously considering buying a race truck, wouldn’t you have done some research to know what 8100 (Stock Full, stock being the key word here) class is all about? Maybe it’s just me, but that seems to be fundamental.
Lastly, I had a guy call me that was (again) very interested in the truck (blah blah) that midway through the conversation (after explaining TO ME!!! what racing in a stock class is all about and how hard it is and how expensive --- as if I don’t know….!!!) that he wants to buy my truck and covert the front end to 4x4 with a SOLID FRONT AXLE!!! I wanted to drop the phone. His reasoning was that the ‘old style I-Beams/radius arms stuff is junk and doesn’t work and that a solid front axle works way better in the rough. All I wanted to do was to have him come out and let me take him for a ride in that I-Beam junk…
Oh well, the good side to the story is that my truck is going to a VERY good new (old) owner. The very guy that I bought the truck from 4 years ago has now bought it back from me. I don’t think there could’ve been a better end to this story.
