Posted: August 04 2004 at 10:52am | IP Logged

It is a "glass headlights only" thing. If you have a modern car with a plastic sheild over your lights, you don't have to use tape. If you have a 67 Mustang, you need to use tape. The reason for tape it to keep glass off the track, really, and glass can get cracked by a stone thrown up from a car in front of you, race group or not.

Many of the guys use it to protect their cars from chips, and I suppose cracks in the plastic headlight covers, but that's their choice.

Posted: August 05 2004 at 4:25pm | IP Logged

Thanks John.

I didnt think about the dings to the paint. I knew about the glass part. Back in my crazy bike days we had to tape everything, brake reservoirs, cables, turn signals. the works.