Skip Barber auction - some tools for sale

[Stuart in MN]

Some of you may know that the Skip Barber racing school recently went bankrupt, closed up shop, and have been liquidating their assets. I see there's a Pexto shear, a lathe, some workbenches and some other shop/garage stuff up for auction: https://www.proxibid.com/asp/Catalog.asp?aid=134340 If you're in the Gainesville, GA area it may be worth checking out.

 

[Boatwright]

Didn't know, but it's sad. Took their 3 day school back in 2001. Class act.

 

[Scott H in Wheaton]

I wonder if it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for people with money to burn, and they went through the available candidates? May not be something people do year after year and may be tough to always be recruiting new students

 

[pi_guy]

I wonder if it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for people with money to burn, and they went through the available candidates? May not be something people do year after year and may be tough to always be recruiting new students

No they ran race series. Many would take it as a tune up. There were different levels, skid pads.
In the 70's to the late 90's everybody who raced took Skippy School at one point.

Skip got old, too much fighting at Lime Rock which he owned. Many other race schools. At one point they were at just about every race track.

I would not buy used Skippy school stuff knowing many of the instructors and mechanics the equipment is tired.

 

[Stuart in MN]

There are a bunch of other driving schools that do okay and remain in business (my cousins operate one in Oklahoma) so it would seem there were other factors to why they had to shut down.