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To most sport compact performance enthusiasts, vintage racing must seem just a bit stuffy. We like the cars because they are accessible, easy to buy and easy to make fast without spending a fortune. In contrast, vintage racing can sometimes seem to be a venue primarily for wealthy collectors to parade around in their million-dollar-plus European exotics, sipping Perrier in the shade of canopies hanging from the sides of their $80,000 transporters. Chugging a bottle of Gatorade and sliding under one's own car, wrench in hand, is unseemly. There are rules about which cars may compete, but while certain Japanese cars qualify by the letter of the rulebook, those who have prepared and attempted to race them at vintage events have often been made to feel unwelcome. Even those who race the less expensive vehicles from "approved continents" have sometimes felt under-appreciated in the paddock. Thanks to the formation of the Vintage Sedan Racers Group, that is changing.
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