Sorry to hear your mobility has been greatly reduced. My goal is to still be doing track days when I'm 80 (8 more years) but life may have other plans, so we'll see.

I have great admiration for people who build/mod a track car and, had I not started into this so late in life, would have done so myself. Instead, I "did it the easy way" and got an AMG. Still so much fun. Regardless, I still enjoy talking cars and getting a ride in anything from a Miata to a McLaren, on the track.

To your "challenge" comment ... did something like that in the 1970's. Never took pictures, in those days, so this is the only pic I have ... which I recovered from a very darkened, very blurry, very old Polaroid (remember those) print. It was the car's maiden 200 mi trip and still had primer (oh, pardon me ... matte-grey paint!) and steel wheels (mags and tires had not arrived yet). It was fiberglass on a shortened VW bug platform (the car we all had so much fun making into something else). I had the molds which were a '60s Lotus Europa knockoff. I'd added the front splitter. Car weighed under 1,500 lb with a near-full tank and me in it. Fun project:



Yes, those are bell-bottom jeans. Yes, I had long hair. Yes, it was the mid '70s. No, I really wouldn't want to be that young again, in today's world.