OK John, I'll take your advice... how bout one of these?
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John Vanlandingham Junior Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Jeeeezuz Christ man, I'm oafish-ally in Burien. On the very North edge of Burien and oafishally only since 1 April this year...
Well yeah but what the fawk that's normal---and it ain't an age thing so don't think I'm getting all "geezerey" on ya, it's simply a matter of experience making decisions, and living (somehow) thru them long enough to survive the unbelievable stupidity of them---I left home and moved to Sweden when I was 17 and took with me about $400 (and spent about $120 to buy a car in East England then drove in December---straight to Berlin to see this HOTina 23 year old German girl who was next to me on the flight from Oakland to Frankfurt---fawking brilliant. No heat in the RHD car---seriously there were wicked icicles hanging off the dash, and i ran out of gas in the middle of the 400meter "Dead Zone" between East Germany and Berlin---where the East Germans had signs up "Do NOT STOP in the next 400M--Lebensgefärlich" Brilliant. (The were allowed ( it was their land) to open fire on any vehicle stopping---East germans trying to escape were known to run out and jump in vehicles just before they exited the "Dead Zone" 
Fer phuques sake you gonna be a neighbor---and "Rallymech" Robert Gobright is just 2 miles over thataway-----> or ^ that way, get a fawkin Xratty or a 240. Those Eclisped Talon things have ONE THING going for them: a pretty good motor. Crap gearbox ratios that really hurt them, inadequate brakes, a strong box but they are all pounded now, and rebuilding them so they will shift with scary grunches is spendy. ALTERNATE ratios CAN be found---for big money. The interior is really cramped and you sit on the floor and try to see between the top of the dash and between the steering wheel---if you're my height---statstically the average height---and REALLY cramped by big broadshouldered guys, and REALLY horrible with a helmet on.
You have it backwards. You get a cheap ratmobile to daily drive so that you can use scarce money for the critical bits. And the parts that make the car work GOOD.
It's not you "can't" its just it costs a shit-ton of money for a car and a service rig. And I was under the impression you don't have bundles of 100s just strewn around.
Where does he live?
Where do they live?
Not really---I rolled mine on stage 6---and the fenders all four corners screw on and off with 12-13 screws, I had a business that was 99% ther model car I was beating---and had mountains of extra doors, fenders, hoods, glass, everything.....only took about 9 hours to "rebuild it" but I wasn't smiling....
Wait till you move here, come by and visit. Talk to me and Robert (VW guy---it's genetic since he's German---oh and remember DON'T MENTION THE WAR) and Sean Medcroft, maybe Al Kun who I's scheduled to co-drive for at Mt Hood,
Buy a running ANYTHING for a daily, but cheap. A running Le-gassy or whatever. Buy a free to $400 Xratty or Volvo. make sure there's oil in the box and the axles and motor. Get suspension and a GOOD sumpguard.....beat it someplace safe and with some experience person or persons guiding you. BURN UP A PILE OF TIRES. Play drifty-daze, Grass-o-cross, track day, and practice someplace with you can not dip the toe in but splash both feet over the line without serious penalty---- Cle-Elum/Easton and Eastwards toward the Columbia looks very promising since there's very sparse trees and you can see a mile or more, and sionce it's on THAT side of the mountains, WAY less traffic, and little to no ditches. While you're beating on the car and getting jazzed---install cage. Find shorter gearing and a T5 so you can utilise the insane TALL overdrive. (You understand what I'm saying in that last bit? If not call on the phone, I have typed way more than i want to on this whole subject) That was the car has good strong yank 1-4th and you can cruise 70-75mph in 5th and not scream it and slurp gas.. That gearing thing, the NEXT critical thing after suspenders is something you CAN do very easily and cheaply in THOSE 2 CARS and virtually no others at the costs of those 2. John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
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Go 1000 miles in either direction AJ.
I think it's about time for JTM to start considering building a Toyota MR2 or maybe a Nissan Stanza. |
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