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INDYCAR: So You Want To Buy An Indy Car…
Wondering what to get your IndyCar-loving friend or family member for Christmas? For pennies on the dollar, you can buy one of KV Racing's 2011 Dallaras...
KV Racing needs to make room for a fleet of new 2012 Dallara DW12s and will make buyers one heck of a deal to help clear the old models off the shop floor. (KV Racing)
Don't ask KV Racing General Manager Mark Johnson for the Carfax reports on the three 2011-spec Dallara IR07s the team has for sale through eBay’s classifieds service.
Frankly, even if he could produce Carfaxes for the team fleet of redundant Indy cars, it might just be easier to watch the humorous (but expensive to make) highlight reel of some of the crashes the cars were subjected to.
Yet for one lucky customer (or possibly three individual buyers), the cars of Tony Kanaan, Takuma Sato and E.J. Viso can be had as a package for $135,000, or individually for $50,000 apiece, minus engine and a few miscellaneous bits.
And for the buyer who opts for the three-car package, prepare to hire an extra moving truck as it comes with a full catalog of spares.
With new 2012 Dallara DW12s due to arrive at KV’s shop in Indianapolis in less than two weeks, clearing space on the shop floor, in the spare parts room and in the team’s haulers is now a priority, and with three redundant IR07s on its hands, using the popular internet auction site’s classified section to part with those cars made the most sense to KV’s Johnson.
Whether it a mechanically-inclined racer who wants to try and fit a different engine to the Dallara or a business in search of a display car, Johnson hopes to get cars out the door and into the hands of those who want to take possession of their very own Indy car.
Take the IR07’s original sticker price of $500,000, add a healthy spares package per car and the annual development budgets associated with the vehicles, and compared to all the funding that was sunk into the Lotus-liveried Dallaras, the cars can be acquired for a fraction of their former value.
“How do you put a dollar figure on it?” said Johnson. “I’m not sure you really can. If you look at what a new chassis cost, the development money spent, and everything involved, the cars have had a lot of money poured into them. A good solid six-figure development budget was normal, and for a few teams, maybe that went to seven figures. I don’t think they spent those sums recently knowing the cars were being phased out, but when you look at the guys who started out with these cars, they spent a ton in development over the years.”
The goodies that make up the seven crates of spares, according to Johnson, also carried a hefty price tag at one point.
“I would say that if you look at the parts in total, it’s between $350,000 and $500,000. And with the direction things are going with almost nothing carrying over to the new cars, be it suspension or brakes, gearboxes, gear ratios… You have to find something to do with it all. If we can put together a good package for folks, that would be great. It’s almost all obsolete at this time.”
For those who are wondering what to get that IndyCar-loving friend or family member for Christmas, KV Racing might just have the ultimate stocking stuffers…
Marshall Pruett is SPEED.com's Auto Racing Editor, covering IndyCar and sports cars. He also contributes to Road & Track and Racecar Engineering. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
Frankly, even if he could produce Carfaxes for the team fleet of redundant Indy cars, it might just be easier to watch the humorous (but expensive to make) highlight reel of some of the crashes the cars were subjected to.
Yet for one lucky customer (or possibly three individual buyers), the cars of Tony Kanaan, Takuma Sato and E.J. Viso can be had as a package for $135,000, or individually for $50,000 apiece, minus engine and a few miscellaneous bits.
And for the buyer who opts for the three-car package, prepare to hire an extra moving truck as it comes with a full catalog of spares.
With new 2012 Dallara DW12s due to arrive at KV’s shop in Indianapolis in less than two weeks, clearing space on the shop floor, in the spare parts room and in the team’s haulers is now a priority, and with three redundant IR07s on its hands, using the popular internet auction site’s classified section to part with those cars made the most sense to KV’s Johnson.
Whether it a mechanically-inclined racer who wants to try and fit a different engine to the Dallara or a business in search of a display car, Johnson hopes to get cars out the door and into the hands of those who want to take possession of their very own Indy car.
Take the IR07’s original sticker price of $500,000, add a healthy spares package per car and the annual development budgets associated with the vehicles, and compared to all the funding that was sunk into the Lotus-liveried Dallaras, the cars can be acquired for a fraction of their former value.
“How do you put a dollar figure on it?” said Johnson. “I’m not sure you really can. If you look at what a new chassis cost, the development money spent, and everything involved, the cars have had a lot of money poured into them. A good solid six-figure development budget was normal, and for a few teams, maybe that went to seven figures. I don’t think they spent those sums recently knowing the cars were being phased out, but when you look at the guys who started out with these cars, they spent a ton in development over the years.”
The goodies that make up the seven crates of spares, according to Johnson, also carried a hefty price tag at one point.
“I would say that if you look at the parts in total, it’s between $350,000 and $500,000. And with the direction things are going with almost nothing carrying over to the new cars, be it suspension or brakes, gearboxes, gear ratios… You have to find something to do with it all. If we can put together a good package for folks, that would be great. It’s almost all obsolete at this time.”
For those who are wondering what to get that IndyCar-loving friend or family member for Christmas, KV Racing might just have the ultimate stocking stuffers…
Marshall Pruett is SPEED.com's Auto Racing Editor, covering IndyCar and sports cars. He also contributes to Road & Track and Racecar Engineering. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
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