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I own a Steel bodied procup car and live in central Florida and am looking to see if anybody else who owns one of these would be interested in putting together a race at a local track. We all pay our own way anyway, so I figure if we get together we can all contribute and we can have some fun in our own outdated class of cars. Any feedback can be posted here or you can email me direct at Racingprocup@yahoo.com.
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check out the article "new procup type series coming" on the southern racing news page at this site. -
Thanks, I saw that, but want to put something together more for Fl. racers. I am sure most of those races will be in NC or surrounding areas. I would like to get a few races put together from Valdosta down. If I can get at least 10 cars to commit I can go forward with setting this up.Comment
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We need to work together to make this work for all of us with these type cars. We already have a date for this year and a few for 2008. The greater the car count the better the chances to get more dates for 2008. I would tow south to help you when you get some dates, I have two cars. We could really use you help at our October 13th date at Hickory Motor Speedway.Comment
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What type of cars are in this series?? You mentioned all steel bodied cars.
I have an all steel bodied Busch Grand National car I use for show and ride-a-longs. Is this the type car you are looking for? Have not found the site mentioned above.
-------JIM-------RIP Jack Smith and Kim Brown. Many thanks for all you have done for our sport.Comment
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FYI
Hooters Pro Cup cars, Busch, Nextel Cup, ASA, and most other series cars
are also eligible to compete with the V8 StockCar series at events at Daytona International, Sebring, VIR, Homestead, Road Atlanta, and others.
We just ran at Daytona with our former Gary ST Amant ASA national tour car,
180 mph on the banking, with a time of 2.02 on the 3.54 mile Rolex 24 hour road course.Comment
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Bosco
Everything looked great in your post except one thing. My Busch car has the stage 2 Buick V-6 motor with near 600hp. Last ran at Louden in New Hamshire last year and turned 138mph on the one mile track. It weighs 3275lb without the driver(Busch legal weight) and is a copy of the NAPA 15 that Waldrip won Daytona in 2001. How does this fit in??
-------JIM-----RIP Jack Smith and Kim Brown. Many thanks for all you have done for our sport.Comment
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I have a procup car. or otherwise known as a Truckarm car. There are different ones of these sitting around in Florida and don't have a place to run other than the road series mentioned. I am checking to see if I can get enough interest from owners of these cars, to see if we can put on some races in the Florida area. Anywhere from Valdosta down. I am thinking of rules comporable to the 2005 USAR rules. If we can get the interest and the cars we would develop our own rules to regulate our series and be beneficial to all who want to get involved. As of now I have one car (mine) and a vision. I would like to get something going that we can start putting together a few races the early part of next year. A once a month thing. The cars are sitting out there, we just need to find an outlet for them south of the Carolinas. If anyone has any input, I would be glad to hear it.
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Ocala, your car would be eligible to run with us in our our V8 SPO class.
As we run with the SCCA it would also fit in as SCCA SPO, we have a few similar cars already running with us. Most of the V6 cars have been converted to V8 because of lack of parts, I believe.
Also you could take a ton of weight out that thing and still be legal.Last edited by Bosco; 10-02-2007, 10:47 AM.Comment
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The only weight to be removed is the passenger seat and belts. There is no lead in this car that I can find. All steel body,hood, and roof. I have to get even minor parts on the internet. Have valve cover gaskets now coming from Penn. Great little motor though.
------JIM----RIP Jack Smith and Kim Brown. Many thanks for all you have done for our sport.Comment
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One of our guys (Ray Webb) has an old mid 90's Marcis Busch car, he was able to get his down to about 2950 lbs. A lot of cup cars are starting to show up including a recent David Stremme Coors light Car.
Check out our website at www.V8stockcar.com. If you have some questions you can give me a call at 386 717 0745.
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New ProCup Type Series On Horizon
by Skip Wall
Mike Kurkowski went to USA International Speedway with driver Daniel Johnson earlier this year to run a race in the Procup series. When he made the long haul back, an 10 hour drive back to his North Carolina home, he had plenty of time to reflect his disappointments within the USAR Hooters ProCup.
Johnson had blown an engine at the Lakeland Fl. track and found themselves coming back up I-95 early. Moreover the team had a steel bodied car and couldn't compete with the new fiberglass body that USAR had allowed this new season. Kurkowski, like other Procup owners find. its hard to get a sponsor, and more so this year because the USAR had altered its TV package down. USAR also shortened its schedule to try and make the series more affordable for race teams.
Some track promoters, drivers and sponsors are concerned. Some of them question the future of the USAR series.
One of the key elements Kurkowski paid attention to was the series plans to abolish the steel bodied cars next season. Kurkowski knows there are plenty of those teams out there that have these outdated steel bodied cars in their garages.
The drivers want a place to go race. Kurkowski and Shotime Motorsports has some solutions. As an independent owner, Kurkowski, knows there are plenty of those teams out there that has these outdated steel bodied cars in their garages. They cant afford the 5-6K new fiberglass body.
Some of them for various reasons cant afford to go racing in Procup any longer or haven't the past couple of years. Some because of the distance it takes going to tracks coupled with the rising costs of gasoline.
Kurkowski wants to get a group of drivers and race a couple of exhibition races this year and possibly form a series next year at a much more affordable price of racing.
Sherry Clifton, track promoter, for Hickory Speedway, and former ProCup official and businessman Joe Schmalling helped make it possible.
On October 13th at 2 p.m. Kurkowski and his group will get its chance to run in a 100 lap race. He has 12 drivers already entered and feels like that number will grow now that the group has its first race date.
"If we pull this off and other events off this year, it will open the doors up to run a series next year as stand alone events or even as companion events" says Kurkowski.
"We would run for late model purses but will run for much less expense. We will run on used tires or only one set of tires at each race."
If you did that Kurkowski says it would also dwindle down the total costs.
He also says the entry fees would be much lower than the current entry fee that USAR charges.
Kurkowski proposes to run 100 lap features to draw the attention of the fans.
There are lots of things to be decided and Kurkowski is very open minded about the whole situation. He insists he isn't he isn't trying to take away from the Procup but trying to open the doors for teams without the high dollars it takes to run in the bigger series. An affordable series and all for the fun of the sport is the target of this proposed new series.
Interested parties can contact Mike Kurkowski at ShoTimeMotorsports@juno.com
Next Tuesday night on Real Racin'USA Mike Kurkowski of Showtime motorsports and Sherry Clifton of Hickory Speedway will be special guests on the show. Listen LIVE 7-9 pm Click Here for Real Racin'USAComment
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