Insurance Problems

[WarrenG]

Originally Posted by fsstnotch

Well Moron, it was an opinion. Much like yours! My point, a guy walks into a dealer and drops 50-70k on a cobra. A very powerful RACE CAR! This person has plenty of MONEY and no ABILITY or EXPERIENCE driving a car with such power. Therefore, no business buying one until he does have some experience with a HP car.

Comparitively, I could walk into a store or hit up ebay and buy myself an airplane. I have never flown an airplane in my life. Now how much sense does that make?


Just out of curiosity, did you buy your car or did you build it from a kit? How much experience did you have with HP cars before buying/building your cobra?


Josh

Sure you could go out and buy an airplane, but you couldn't legally fly it without (as pilot in command) without a license. Nor could you fly solo without an endorsement from a certified instructor. Get your license in a Cessna 150 and then want to fly an aircraft with retractable gear or variable pitch prop? No insurance company is going to cover you without an endorsement from a certified instructor. My suggestion was that the same should be true for HP cars.

As far as my experience, probably not near as much as most in this club but enough to have learned to respect the limitations of the vehicle and the laws of physics and the consequences of exceeding those laws. 60's muscle cars, MG's, Porsche's, Corvettes and 35 years of engineering experience.

As much as I would have liked to build my own, it's pretty much impossible when you're typically only home 4-6 days out of any given month. I have met some owners (so far only non-builders) who have absolutely no idea what is under the fiberglass (so far no aluminum ones) skin of their car and I wonder whether they're really in it because they love the car or the perceived status that it brings, but I still get tired of the frequent inferences that I just bought my way into this out of laziness with no thought for the responsibility driving a car like this carries.