thejohnremus

A buddy of mine down in LA is looking at a RX7 (besides the point), but it has a Salvage title.

He's not too familiar with sponsorship rules, and is wondering if after he restores it/etc if the salvage title will affect anything. He knows I know most all of you; he was hoping I could pass along that question for him.


If anyone has any info I can pass on, I'd appreciate it.

K2Rhiro255

sponsorship for parts you mean?

S2k-Takara

Nah, the manufactures arent worried about that so much. As long as it looks good enough for people to want to buy overpriced JDM parts made in (insert here) they are not worried about your pink slip tittle.

thejohnremus

yeah, in general I suppose.

the car he's lookin at is about half done. he would do a number of other things to it, and then look for sponsorship for various extra things and for shows or whatever

he just was curious if they cared about the title

S2k-Takara

No there have been plenty of salvage title front page bling bling rides.

It's really common because thats how it happens alot. Someone buys the car, then wrecks the car, and the insurance company hands the owner a nice check and offers to sell the mangled car back to the owner. Then - fat check plus mangled car....well you see where im going.

rhayward

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh wtf

tell him to get into the scene by attending large events where manufactures of parts have booths and get his name out there

itS2Krazy

its who you know, not what you know in this industry.


a sponsor is looking for someone that has a good attitude, good car either racing or show's. also the car has to be going in a good direction.

not just anyone that gets sponsorships. unless you sign up for that free caca freecarsponsorship.com bullshit.

superslows2k

if u spend 100k into ur car, u can easily get a sponsorship

forgot to mention spending it in a tasteful way

K2Rhiro255

It is extremely important to know people. I mean RIGHT people. This industry is so small almost everyone knows eachothers. It's pretty funny when you realize it.

If your friend is going to get a sponsorship for a show car, may be it doesn't matter but for racing, just make sure that the chassis is straight otherwise it's hard to make it run straight. He might wanna look for sponsorship before he spends anything since there is not really a point once he buys everything.

thejohnremus

yeah,

well, he had his last car sponsored by a few companies before he finished it when he was living out on the east coast. But he left it out there and is gettin rid of it.
So he's lookin for a new project now


thanks for all the input everyone