Does anybody know where I can purchase a 10x10 canopy for use at the track? I know like Walmart sales them but I was wanting one with like an aftermarket company's logo on it. I know that may sound lame but any promo on my part can always help down the road from a company...

 

The higher end canopies(Blank) 10x10 an run about $500-600. with a custom logo on it, those can get up to $1000 easily. good luck on someone handing you over a $1000 canopy.

 

They are alot more then that when you buy a quality piece.

Here is who did my pit tents for me...

http://www.caravancanopy.com/

 

Ouch!
I was wanting to purchase it not be given, but at that price...nevermind then.
Jegs sells one for like $100ish.

 

yea you can get the cheap jegs one, but when it blows over and takes some paint off your car with it, you wont be happy.

im sure some guys here remember 2008 BOTI at ATCO when we had the damm tornado? that tested mostof of the cheap tent and showed them an early grave lol

 

I used the Wal-Mart ones (First-Up). All the other ones fade and get torn up just the same so why not. $75 each and I have bought expensive ones that suck.

 

unless you are spending money to have your logo put on one i consider the tents a disposable item, lol

i could get about a year out of one before it needed to be replaced -- i have been buying the ones from sports authority, the 10'x10' or 12'x12' you can generally get for $80-100

the authentic EZ up's are very nice, in the $250-300 price range if i recall correctly

 

Thanks for all of the helpful insight! I didnt realize what I was truly getting into. From what I gather, either buy a cheap one and use it for what it is or buy an expensive one and lose money when it blows away...lol
Too bad my unit doesnt have any GP tents laying around...

 

I use the EZ up's and I dont think you can go wrong with those. I have had the same 2 from 2003. The weight bags are starting to show there age but other than that there still good. Use the bags to hold them down is key. Mine are filled with wheel weights.
I have 2 10x10 put together i use 2 bungy cords to hold them together in the middle and a bag on each leg.

 

EZ up 4 years old and still going and I use it all the time
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man theres nothing wrong w/ the 10x10 ez up tents from sports authority...

i got a couple on sale for like 60 bucks each and bungee cord them together, they work great and if they ever break they are cheap to replace.

i was in the atco hurricane lol and my old ez up tent was destroyed (Jake got a good pic of it haha) but i doubt any tent would have held up in that situation.

it prolly would have been fine if i hadnt steaked it into the ground lol

 

GOD do i wish we had paved pits like that at our track! Damn Gravel!!!


Mine is 10x10 and its made by caravan canopy as well. It was like $250 from Costco.

 

I have used an EZ tent now for almost 7 years with no problems. The best way to keep them from blowing away is putting 20lb. weights on each of the legs

 

i still have my first up from walmart goin on 4 years.

as for weight, i got 4 old rotors off of a 1500 series chev truck, line x'd em, and tie em off at the corners. survived the monsoon at etown this past fall.

 

does anyone remember 08 at moroso when it got rained out & EVERYONE left their tents out over night. we came back to a disaster the next morning.
some big tents that took some car out, lol

deff got to weight the corners down. we just run screws into the asphalt, lol

 

^ya most of them have holes in the feet so that you can drive stakes through the legs if you're on grass

 

We just weigh down all the corners with concrete filled coffee cans and put wood on the outside to make it look nice. I dont know why anyone wouldnt secure it somehow. but then again we arent covering up cars. Go karts take a little more abuse.

 

some do have vents a the top to help with getting the air out when it gets a hard draft.

but the little stakes that they come with suck

 

**** you can pound those stakes right through the asphalt...

although id be careful doing that if your at a nice venue w/ fancy new blacktop haha

 

lol those would leave some big as holes. we did that once & thats why we screw them now. u cant een see the crew holes.
aslo we bent 2 trying to beat them through once before. depends on how big the rick it your beating through, lol

 

yea, definitly do not start hammering away with nails in the black top @ MIR, they will fine you 100 bucks/ hole

 

I got mine at Home Depot, it was $90 but i wish i sprung for the $200 one because it was leaking at the NSCRA finale when we got doused.

Best thing to hold em down are 5 gallons buckets filled with concrete, i'm gonna make a couple for this season as using spare tires and tool bags don't work as well.

 

Our 2 12x12's from Sports Authority survived ATCO 2008 just fine. We learned from Etown May 07 that you need to hold them down really well. Our 3rd one went for a ride about 1:30AM during the wind storm. About 2AM we took down one of those 20ft white one's with the slip fit pipes, that the wind had move out from between two trailers.

I like the 12x12's gives you more coverage for a few more dollars. We also have the side canopies to block the wind when it's cold. They worked well at Epping one Oct.

 

Got my EZ UP from Job Lot for $75. Worked very well for the 8 or so events I did this past year even didnt leak much at all when it poured saturday at fall nationals.

 

What you talkin' bout Willis ? ? ? hahaha