Are Indycar parts rare?

[u/theWhiteEdge]

I was recently scrolling on Facebook marketplace and found the engine cover to a ir-05 indycar for $200 I instantly offered $175 and the guy agreed. I’ve never seen anything like this on anywhere to buy something like this. I am a huge indycar fan so this really works out for me but I was wondering if anyone else had anything similar to this?

[u/Careless-Resource-72]

I never asked but you might be lucky if you go to the garage area if a car is involved in a non-serious wreck. Sting Ray’s car at Texas.

[u/MetallicSquid → u/Careless-Resource-72]

Following Sting Ray's car around sounds like a great plan for scavenging then

[u/saliczar → u/MetallicSquid]

Him and Grosjean.

[u/saggywitchtits → u/MetallicSquid]

It's like lawyers who would follow ambulances around.

[u/Careless-Resource-72 → u/Careless-Resource-72]

Simon’s car at Mid Ohio was serious so they probably kept all the parts.

[u/bajagordon7 → u/Careless-Resource-72]

This couldn’t be sting ray. He’s never wrecked a car.

[u/Wasdgta3 → u/bajagordon7]

You’re right, these crashes were all part of God’s plan...

[u/happyscrappy]

Mechanical parts are rare. They just don't make many of these cars.

Any cosmetic (body) part that can fall off the car in a wreck is still technically rare but they often end up in the hands of fans when damaged. So they get passed around a lot more. And they take up a lot of space so people are more apt to get tired of having them.

I think tires are the bottom of the barrel, price-wise. Some people pick up used tires at races, cart them home and the pretty rapidly wonder why they have a used tire sitting around. Also, teams go through a lot of tires.

[u/LongTallDingus → u/happyscrappy]

Formula Drift goes through tyres so fast they actively give them away to fans, haha. You're almost encouraged to ask for tyres.

If you put it in your home it's going to smell like a tyre shop in 48 hours, tyres off-gas. Don't fall for it, they want you to take them because they have to pay to recycle them!

[u/East-Independent6778 → u/LongTallDingus]

I can handle the tire shop smell, it’s the rancid cat pee smell they give off after a few years that usually ends up with a trip to the dump. That’s with NASCAR tires anyway.

[u/saggywitchtits → u/East-Independent6778]

My brother is a classy redneck, he has a Nascar brake pad sitting in his front yard.

[u/djellison → u/happyscrappy]

pretty rapidly wonder why they have a used tire sitting around.

That happened to me at Donington Park DTM in '02 or '03. Dunlop were giving away the tires at the back of the paddock.....there was an tyre tech carving names and pictures into them with a hot knife if you asked nicely and waited.

I took a plain one home, put it in my garage and spent 5 years wondering what to do with it before giving it away to a motorsport loving friend.

[u/TYFUBYE → u/djellison]

Probably saved them a fortune in disposal fees

[u/Ladefrickinda89]

If you go to any race and there’s an accident. You walk up to the team that wrecked. They’ll give you stuff.

I’ve managed to get tires, front wings, air boxes etc.

[u/Hitokiri2]

The IR-05 was used forever and it's basically an evolution of the IR-03 and IR-04 before it. Even the IR-07 that was used in the beginning of reunification wasn't that different from the IR-07. So I wouldn't be surprised if there there pieces of the these chassis all over the place.

[u/djellison]

I got a crash damaged front wing end-plate ( Oriel Servia, Baltimore '13 - https://youtu.be/h_Bmw5xzMCw?t=164 ) off Ebay for $150 including postage....it's on my office wall and I love it.