After open wheel experience I want a BAC Mono

[rennlistuser3]

Just had the time of my life driving one of these things. 140 HP 1000 lbs. Not much but wow was I floored by the experience.

I will embarrassingly confess I derive most of my "car experience" from Grand Turismo and other simulators They're what made me love the cars that I later bought in life and loved and appreciated as before I was just looking at numbers and stats. 0-60 I thought was everything in a fun cars.

While these simulators did not lead me astray for road cars I've experienced, they sure did on open wheel racers. I did not like open wheel race cars in simulators (not even F1 cars). Go-carts were not fun for me in a simulator. They were more fun in real life but I would choose a regular car over them. But the open wheel racer was a different experience all together. Simulators do not communicate the visceral feeling you get driving these. The noise, the g-force, the vibrations, seeing the wheel hit the curb while cornering. Simulators do not convey any of this well.

The whole experience was so visceral, my BRZ felt like a Lexus SUV after that experience. I had to readjust myself to it

Now I'm looking at one of those BAC Monos rather than a Ferrari. What an experience.

[Tcoat]

You know there are sub sections for other topics right? Maybe something like "Other Vehicles" may be a better place for this topic? Maybe?

You are "looking at" a toy that costs at least $270,000 and is not street legal? Expensive hobby.

[rennlistuser3]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

You know there are sub sections for other topics right? Maybe something like "Other Vehicles" may be a better place for this topic? Maybe?

You are "looking at" a toy that costs at least $270,000 and is not street legal? Expensive hobby.

yeah you're right

Mods, could you please delete this thread completely?

Thanks bye

[Clutch Dog]

Or just move it..
I could introduce you to our lord and savior's own chariot

The Miata' Based Exocet..

[Tcoat]

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Clutch Dog

Or just move it..
I could introduce you to our lord and savior's own chariot

The Miata' Based Exocet..

No! Bad dog! Do not suck me into that black hole. I narrowly escaped it last time I looked at it.

[Clutch Dog]

Originally Posted by Spuds

No! Bad dog! Do not suck me into that black hole. I narrowly escaped it last time I looked at it.

I figger if anything happens to my frs by ways of an accident that insurance will cover.


Id start pricing out my own exo and hang up my "covered fun car" dreams
and settle for an old steel car to cruise and exocet to blitz

[dhuang]

Can't afford a BAC? Try one of these, an Eliminator, it's street legal and registered as a 1997 Mazda Miata.

140hp / 1700lbs / 5-Speed / No power steering / No ABS

After I drove down the street, I texted my friend "First impressions: Got a rock in my shoe. BUT LOVE IT!".

Originally Posted by rennlistuser3

The whole experience was so visceral, my BRZ felt like a Lexus SUV after that experience. I had to readjust myself to it

Like you, I got back in my BRZ and it felt like riding in a luxury hotel.

[rennlistuser3]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

You are "looking at" a toy that costs at least $270,000 and is not street legal? Expensive hobby.

What's not street legal?

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by rennlistuser3

What's not street legal?

The BAC Mono that YOU linked.

"The Mono, which will have a starting price of about $270,000 and is not road legal in Canada, can be customized, Pfaff principal Chris Pfaff said in a news release"
https://canada.autonews.com/article/...ck-day-special
For that matter every thing is 2 years old and it looks like you stil can't even buy them here..

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by dhuang

Can't afford a BAC? Try one of these, an Eliminator, it's street legal and registered as a 1997 Mazda Miata.

140hp / 1700lbs / 5-Speed / No power steering / No ABS

After I drove down the street, I texted my friend "First impressions: Got a rock in my shoe. BUT LOVE IT!".



Like you, I got back in my BRZ and it felt like riding in a luxury hotel.

Classed as a kit car here and wouldn't last 5 minutes on the street. Trying to say it is a Miata would not work.

Pretty much impossible to do any kit cars in Canada now.

https://www.tc.gc.ca/en/services/roa...-kits/faq.html

[rennlistuser3]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

The BAC Mono that YOU linked.

"The Mono, which will have a starting price of about $270,000 and is not road legal in Canada, can be customized, Pfaff principal Chris Pfaff said in a news release"
https://canada.autonews.com/article/...ck-day-special
For that matter every thing is 2 years old and it looks like you stil can't even buy them here..

If it's not street legal in Canada, it's street legal elsewhere.

The FT86 is also "arguably" a toy

all objects of desire tend to be difficult to obtain else you'd just get them immediately and the lust and desire are gone. Hence why the Ferrari comparison.

Also, I post here for the fun of socializing and nothing is taken too seriously. I don't come here for debates. I have other venues for that mental energy.

Have a good day.

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Classed as a kit car here and wouldn't last 5 minutes on the street. Trying to say it is a Miata would not work.

Down here in Florida, anything goes. There's a growing "carting" community here that buys wrecked cars at auction, strips them down to the bare minimum and welds cages on them. All the tax office cares about is that the VIN is correct and you pay the fees. All the cops care about is that you have the minimum equipment, basically windshield wipers and the mandated lights.

And if you don't even want to have to comply with the minimum automobile standards, there are now conversion kits for the Polaris Slingshot to give it four wheels. A local guy here is building kits and registering them as motorcycles.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by rennlistuser3

If it's not street legal in Canada, it's street legal elsewhere.

The FT86 is also "arguably" a toy

all objects of desire tend to be difficult to obtain else you'd just get them immediately and the lust and desire are gone. Hence why the Ferrari comparison.

Also, I post here for the fun of socializing and nothing is taken too seriously. I don't come here for debates. I have other venues for that mental energy.

Have a good day.

All I said in my first response was that there is a section for other vehicles. This is an other vehicle not a BRZ.

I then pointed out that the car here (if it ever does for sale at all) is incredibly expensive and would only be good for a track. This makes it a very expensive hobby. That is a fact not an opinion, any form of insult or a statement about your desire of one.

You got pissy.

Then you asked what wasn't street legal and I responded.

You got pissy again.

There is no "debate".

The Twins are not a "toy" in that they can be used the same as any other car. Even if you strip them down and use them just as a track car making them a toy then you are no where near the $270K price tag which makes them a very cheap hobby in comparison.


Socializing does not consist of simply receiving comments that support what you want to hear.


Edit: For some reason I thought you were in Canada. I looked back through the 100 or so PMs from you and realized my error. It is indeed street legal in your state but still bloody expensive for a toy. It is fun that you make a thread about praising the back seat in the BRZ and then want a one seat "car" though.