Race on Sunday, No Warranty Come Monday - Page 2

**ANDY M** · #11 10-20-2005, 09:25 PM

The GM Rep story was in Muscle Car Review, regarding Yenko cars sold at Colonial. Quite a few of these cars were sold to sailors coming back from Nam, and the first thing they wanted to do was take the car to the track and race their buddies.

**Pacecarjeff** · #12 10-20-2005, 09:35 PM

This story is not so far fetched.

Subaru has a program in place right now,
they are looking for kids racing their WRX's

Racing your new Subaru voids the warrenty.

**markjohnson** · #13 10-20-2005, 10:09 PM

Another warranty story. A friend of mine bought a brand new 68 or 69 L-88 Corvette here in St. Louis and was told by the salesman there would be no warranty when it left the lot because they knew it would be raced. So he proceeded to back up to edge of the lot and started dumping the clutch after telling the salesman that if it was going to break, he wanted it to break on their lot. This made the dealership owner come running outside and he ended up giving a 30 day warranty on the car. The car is long gone now but many of the orginal L-88 parts are still in his garage.

Supercar_Kid · #14 10-20-2005, 10:12 PM

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**YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY** · #15 10-20-2005, 10:47 PM

Bill Hunter

Anther quote: "I went out to break it in, and just plain broke it"!!

musclecarjohn · #16 10-20-2005, 11:47 PM

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Now THAT'S customer service.

"Here you go son,let me sidestep this here clutch around 7-grand a few times to make sure the boys PDI'd it correctly"

Yeah...I could see that happening.

70CitrusZ · #17 10-25-2005, 02:53 AM

No warranty is only for full time race cars.
I can see that.
Having said that, I know Chevrolet will take any excuse possible to remove a warranty. probably reflects the quality of their cars and state of their Company.

Many of the car manufacturers stated this on the sales sheet and even on a plate on the car, that or a reduced warranty.

If anyone ever tried to tell me I had no warranty because I was racing the car (for fun)....They would have the car back, and I would get my money back, and I'd shop elsewhere next time.

That warranty removal BS would never fly on people that used the car street/strip multi purpose, because for those cars,that was normal wear and tear.

Vettefinderjim · #18 10-28-2005, 04:42 AM

Years ago John Leifield was my neighbor. He worked for Ford and was assigned the Shelby account in 1966, and specifically the Shelby Mustang. John was an engineer and his job was to make SURE the Hertz Shelby Mustangs were in good shape on Monday morning. They knew the $25 a day rental cars were being raced over the weekend. Now that sounds to me like Ford wanted the cars raced......and you can bet Chevrolet did too.

**markjohnson** · #19 10-28-2005, 08:35 AM

I thought I heard or read that many of those Hertz Shelbys were converted to automatics after so much abuse to put a dampener on everyone's fun. Anyone know about this?

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