[mitchntx]

Just curious how many have scaled back, scaled back considerably or outright had to park your car because of the economy?

And along with that, how many have done any of the above, not based on actual events, but fear of something happening that would make curtailing your "fix" inevitable?

For me, my regional race schedule hasn't changed, but the TnT days and out of region events have been scratched. And not because of being laid off or anything, just burying my coffee cans in the backyard in case I do.

If I didn't have a great group of sponsors and wasn't able to trade instructing for registration, then the story would probably be differnet.

[z28jeff]

My wife and I both have recession-proof jobs. I do HVAC maintenance at the Dept of Energy,(and you know energy research isn't going away anytime soon) and my wife is a teacher. This whole crashing economy thing has been weird for me. It's like I'm on the outside looking in. Actually, things have been better for me in the last few months. I just got a promotion and my wife is on the doorstep to being hired at a local school district that's tough to get into. (Been subbing for 5 years). You would think I would be dumping more money than ever into my car to make it an all out ESP car. But I just can't get motivated now. In fact, I'll probably do less events this year than I've done since I started 8 years ago. Or mabey quit alltogether for awhile. I don't know if the economy has me too scared to spend money, or if I'm just burned out of the autocross scene. I'm thinking it's the latter of the two.