Motor Projects

[White Van Man]

Curious to hear the views of you guys who funf your own race programs towards the various motor projects which were set up to try and reform joyriders and others involved in auto crime.

A lot of these projects now enter cars built by the peeps on the project - mainly in banger racing... Do you think it fair that they should get this as a 'reward' for their crimes ? Or do you think that the projects do a worthy job and should continue ?

[TimD]

Absolutely nothing to do with my distaste for banger racing - which you know about all too well, WVM, but...

When I was a kid, it always rankled that I worked and scrimped and saved to buy my first rusty old motor, while all I had to do to go racing was to nick one and get caught doing it.

It really crystallised when I saw a TV documentary about one of these projects and they were preparing a Morris 1800 "landcrab" for racing, which was frankly in better condition than the one I was trying to keep running on the road at the time...

[White Van Man]

That is the opinion of pretty much all of their competitors in banger racing... which is why these cars barely make turn two...

I agree with what you're saying about the projects - what they do looks like huge fun, but it'd be mighty expensive if I wanted to have a go myself... maybe I should just go and steal a car and challenge the old bill to a race through the High Street ?