plance1 wrote:Per Schroeder wrote: I think you guys have a handle on what we're not going to reintroduce the claim rule.??? Don't get hung up on the idea of claim rule, maybe just consider introducing some kind of economic factor into your evaluation criteria. To do otherwise means you are just burying your head in the sand and ignoring the total value and/or cost of the vehicles that show up for your contest. If some guy who is struggling to pay his bills and support his family thinks that his time is not worth anything, like the guy who said his labor is free, then he will never get it and instead will most likely spend 364 days a year working on his next challenge car instead of getting a part-time job. But for the rest of us who value our own time and considering that the value of our time differs, why not let society decide what our cars our worth? Is it because some folks would be embarrassed that they spent 10,000 hours of so called free labor on a car that is only worth 5 grand?
Wow, you are clueless dude.
This is not for money, it is for magazine fodder and to see what you as a human being (or a group of human beings) can do with a set amount of money. Basically it is about building a car with your friends/family and taking it someplace to compare it to other people's entries. In between comparisons, you drink heavily and poke the vein in Per's head, when you're not fixing something broken.
Did you ever compete in coke bottle, pinewood derby or similar events as a child? As a child did you and your friends build stuff with crap you found/scrounged for? I did that with bicycle's, ended up with a 12-speed BMX bike, went like hell but was scary to ride. This is a similar style event, only instead of a Merit badge and the possibility of a trophy, you get to have your car in a magazine with the possibility of a trophy after you spend the weekend hanging out with a lot of great people.
If you as a human being with responsibilities (we all have responsibilities, some more than others), choose to build a Challenge car instead of finding a job (part time or not) then your priorities are severely screwed up and you won't succeed as a human being in our society for very long.