Danny Popp Wins 2011 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational

[Stuart Adams]

Brian, cool car. Love the stance and tire size combo.

[Flash68]

Brian, I personally think your car is a great example of walking the fine line from street car to race car (that is a good thing and meant as a compliment).

If I was to build my car from scratch, I would incorporate most of what you did in that project. Others may not agree. Just because Stielow's car weighs 3700 lbs and has full interior and stereo doesn't mean everyone's car has to.

And the safety aspect is huge as well. You are right... unfortunately it does appear to be a matter of when and not if.

I didn't even know you didn't have windows (since I was one who made that comment earlier). And the fact that you intended to and just ran out of time is no biggie.

Congrats on your 3rd place finish and great showing.. And you did it in a muscle car.

Oh, and don't ya love the people who say ya can't drive a dog box on the street? Who says so?

[73CPCAMARO]

Originally Posted by Flash68

Brian, I personally think your car is a great example of walking the fine line from street car to race car (that is a good thing and meant as a compliment).

If I was to build my car from scratch, I would incorporate most of what you did in that project. Others may not agree. Just because Stielow's car weighs 3700 lbs and has full interior and stereo doesn't mean everyone's car has to.

And the safety aspect is huge as well. You are right... unfortunately it does appear to be a matter of when and not if.

I didn't even know you didn't have windows (since I was one who made that comment earlier). And the fact that you intended to and just ran out of time is no biggie.

Congrats on your 3rd place finish and great showing.. And you did it in a muscle car.

Oh, and don't ya love the people who say ya can't drive a dog box on the street? Who says so?

Thanks Dave! I built the car the be the best looking Camaro I could make and drive the crap out of it If I was going to spend that much time and money on the car, I wanted to be able to drive it on the street and have a blast with it. To me, that is what my car is all about.

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by Flash68

Oh, and don't ya love the people who say ya can't drive a dog box on the street? Who says so?

The clunking (Jerico) and locker banging..... UNTIL.... you get to speed.... would drive me crazy on the street! I hated to drive my car to the Sunoco tank in the pits with all the clunking and chunking going on....First time I did I thought I broke something!

The guys working with me at the stop box were just sure those cars had broken when they tried to make the (TOO TIGHT) turn to the return road... I winched every time myself and I knew what the reason was.

But you know what? I'm dying to put some street tires on the thing and sneak out to the triple X (It's a burger joint you gutter guys!) some Saturday afternoon...

BRIAN --- It was so much fun to get to spend some time with you and your Dad! I hope we get the chance to do it again! Thanks for posting your side of the story...

[camcojb]

For the record, I love your car Brian. And in my opinion it totally fits the spirit of this event.

[chevguy]

From a completely outside perspective( I live on the other side of the world so you can't get much more outside ) this argument gets bought up in so many types of motorsport (what is street/race ) it cannot be solved. As soon as you introduce more rules someone will find an edge in some way and guess what, some people will want more rules again. It's a vicious circle. If you are having fun but someone beats you with better gear, you know it and so do they. Race as hard as you can and have fun, nothing else matters when you do this.
Congrats to all you guys doing these races, I'm as jealous as hell, as here we don't have anything like it.

[73CPCAMARO]

Originally Posted by camcojb

For the record, I love your car Brian. And in my opinion it totally fits the spirit of this event.

Thanks.

[73CPCAMARO]

Originally Posted by GregWeld

The clunking (Jerico) and locker banging..... UNTIL.... you get to speed.... would drive me crazy on the street! I hated to drive my car to the Sunoco tank in the pits with all the clunking and chunking going on....First time I did I thought I broke something!

The guys working with me at the stop box were just sure those cars had broken when they tried to make the (TOO TIGHT) turn to the return road... I winched every time myself and I knew what the reason was.

But you know what? I'm dying to put some street tires on the thing and sneak out to the triple X (It's a burger joint you gutter guys!) some Saturday afternoon...

BRIAN --- It was so much fun to get to spend some time with you and your Dad! I hope we get the chance to do it again! Thanks for posting your side of the story...

Greg,

It was my Dad and my pleasure taking to you over some beers. Thank you for all you do on this site and at the events. We could not have these events without you and other volunteers.

Brian

[Steve Chryssos]

Which part of TIE is getting lost in the translation? The stereotypical pro-touring car tied the bad motherfrucker modern Z06 and beat out the cars without side windows.

I'd say that tie represents spectacular news for pro-touring and the rules are 100% spot on. Last I checked, Optima makes batteries for all kinds of cars. And if DSE decides to make parts for C6 vettes some day, their 1st and 2nd gen Camaro parts will still work well and sell well.

It's a good day for hot rodding. Bad day for belly-aching.

I very much enjoyed my first Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational.
/Steevo

[clill]

Hey Brian...Once again....Can I have it ? Great car.