Path: utzoo!utgpu!alliant.com!UUCP Reply-To: british-cars@alliant.com Errors-To: british-cars-request@alliant.com Sender: british-cars-request@alliant.com Return-Path: From: sam@sco.com (Sam Sjogren) X-Mailer: SCO System V Mail (version 3.2) To: british-cars@alliant.alliant.com Subject: Re: Misc, Battle Plans Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 17:52:07 EST Message-ID: <9002231452.aa09981@astoria.sco.COM> Newsgroups: list.british-cars Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu From: uunet!harvard.harvard.edu!mit-eddie!think!ames!eeg.com!akkana (Akkana) Subject: Re: Misc, Battle Plans Autocrossers almost always use magnetic numbers (usually cut out of magnetic vinyl sheets, obtained through big art supply stores or racing supply places). Many road racers do the same thing -- in fact, I think the Showroom Stock rulebook strongly suggests this. Occasionally numbers fall off under high speed or hard cornering, but it isn't too common. At the SCCA road-racing drivers' school ground school, they warned against using magnetic numbers, that they're seen to fall off fairly frequently. Then again, I've gotten lots of conflicting information from people in that club. A lot of people (with less snazzy paint jobs) just go ahead and stick contact paper on the car, or paint on their permanent numbers and then if they have to run another number for some reason, they use tape to modify or cover the painted number. As Andy's pointed out, waxing the car (or at least the parts that are going to get the contact paper) before putting on the contact paper makes it pretty easy to remove. And a strip of racers' tape is very convenient for modifying numbers (like we did with Andy's car last Sunday when I had to drive his car in my run group which already had a #73, just added a "1" in front of it). -me