Mike,

You must be ancient 🙂

With respects to Howe coming up here to get some business, they already do pretty good up here. There are more Howe Chassis up here than most people think and a lot of Howe clips here along with their suspension parts. I don't thinkk McColl has anything to worry about. Pricing between the two can vary for some parts to be sure, but chassis are within 10% to 20% of each other depending on the pricing of steel, exchange rate, etc..

A lot of the price variances depend on how far you want to go with who does what and with what parts. It can add up in a hurry! Howe has a good network of dealers up here already and there are others such as Lefthander, Port City, etc, that other dealers carry and all are in the same ball park.

What is worrying to many, is that some of these builders have seen a huge drop in business and thus - which ones are going to be left standing. There's already rumours floating around that one the biggest U.S. distribution warehouses for racing parts is in financial trouble due to business falling over 65% in 2009. That could put a lot of Cdn dealers into a difficult spot and drive up prices for all racers - at a time when that would put many teams over a cliff and the dominos affect could have signficant impacts downstream.

I'm so old (59) that Ben Hurr and Earl Ross were racing chariots when I first attended Delaware.

Mike,

I was at Ross's shop in the spring. That gang still runs at Delaware - just not with Earl behind the wheel 🙂 They run a modified and a LM if I recall correctly...

Doug