Young Person Rant

[06RangerSTX]

Do not get me wrong; I may not be considered as one of the Young people (Age 33) that people seem to want to get involved with the pro-touring community. I read Pro-Touring articles that state time and time again that they are concerned about getting a younger audience into the sport. But a big BUT, I myself have dreamed to be involved in this community for over 18 years now and still could not even dream about being involved with this sport. I love this sport to no end and want to see it prevail! but Pro-Touring cars are not Hondas that have parts by the dozens ready for you to just bolt on. I mean most of the younger crowd on this site seem to be associated through a family member or have a job inside the industry. As for me, coming from the outside I can only window shop so to speak when it comes to a project worthy of this site.

When it comes to cost of being involved, I have not seen many vehicles on this site that is competing in the autocross events costing much less than say $20,000 US. I know that I sound like a crazed lunatic for talking like this, but I come here and get depressed and not really inspired by the beautiful projects on this site. But I seem to be drawn to these particular cars because I try to live and breath octane as much as I can with zero budget.

I guess what I am saying is; How do you do it? Do you not have any debt or do you have to remortgage the house to get things done?

I must apologize for this rant... I just feel like it may come to the point where I should just walk away and never think about it again...



I will get off my soap box now and leave you all alone... I just needed to get this out there and possibly get peoples thoughts of how crazy or stupid I am for even thinking this way...