TMCP #382: “Small” Front Tire Cars Have a Shot Again! Ed Capen on The New Rules Changes for the 2019 Good Guys Autocross!
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Robert Kibbe
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🗓️ 18 January 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This weeks interview is with Ed Capen, Vice President, Sales and Sponsorships for Good-guys Rod & Custom Association to talk about the new rules for the 2019 racing season. Ed has been on the show previously and we got straight into the rules. Good-guys is first and foremost a car show with an Autocross added on. The customer is the car show attendee and the goal is to make it fun and so that car owners do not have to build their cars specifically for this race series.
The new rules are very exciting and make it possible for a normal or slightly modified classic car owner to be able to compete against other similar vehicles. Classes such as Pro-X now exist but the massive tire, super lightweight, race specific cars are not competing against Joe Normal's heavy car with smaller tires.
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| 0:00.0 | The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast episode number 382. |
| 0:03.8 | This week, it's the third show of a new year, the last of January, and Ed Capen is going |
| 0:08.8 | to tell us all about the rule changes coming for the 2019 Good Guys Auto Cross series. |
| 0:14.8 | Now, like a lot of you, I have a goal this year to get out and drive more and have more fun |
| 0:20.0 | with my cars. And competing |
| 0:21.7 | is the most fun for me, but if I'm honest, normal pro-turing stock fender wheel-weld cars like |
| 0:28.1 | my 64 Chevelle have been outgunned for some time by the super cool big front tire, lightweight |
| 0:34.2 | purpose-built cars at the Good Guys Auto Croses. Well, Ed and the Good Guys crowd have heard that, and they're doing something about it, |
| 0:42.7 | and this year we're back in the mix again. |
| 0:45.3 | Whenever you have competition and you have payouts and you have shootouts and you have all that type of stuff, |
| 0:51.3 | you know, you're going to have guys that are going to push the limit, |
| 0:53.6 | you're going to have to make a little bit of rule changes every once in a while. |
| 0:59.4 | This is the Muscle Car Place, weekly online podcast. |
| 1:03.5 | Brought to you by National Parks Depot. |
| 1:06.2 | This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars. |
| 1:12.1 | Whether you're buying them, selling, restoring, or even racing them, this is the place for you. |
| 1:18.5 | Now, here's your host, Rob Kibby. |
| 1:22.3 | Yes, indeed, I am Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast. |
| 1:26.3 | Well, if you are a fan of the Good Guys Auto Cross series, you have found the exclusive insider access that you've been craving. |
| 1:34.6 | Changing the rules. |
| 1:36.1 | That's a good thing. |
| 1:37.6 | And if you have a muscle car like mine, that's over 3,200 pounds, and if you have a front tire that's 285 millimeters and width or less, guess what? |
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