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  1. Team Pony Express will be racing a Double 7 at the Ridge April 23-24 with Lucky Dog Racing. We've gone from 117whp at our last race (Spokane 36 hours in July 2013) to a turbocharged 186whp, still in a sub-2200lb car, so things should be exciting whatever happens
  2. "72% of quotes attributed to Thomas Jefferson are complete bullshit." -Genghis Khan
  3. A most excellent quote, though properly attributed to librarian and Jefferson enthusiast Eyler Coates, who wrote those words in introducing the following quote from Mr. Jefferson himself: Reading the two side by side, it's pretty obvious which one was written in the 19th century.
  4. "We currently have no evidence that Thomas Jefferson said or wrote, 'The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it' or any of its listed variations." -The Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia (http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/beauty-second-amendment-quotation) Which leads us to: “Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another." -Ambrose Bierce edit: turns out the story behind the other one is incorrect as well: http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/laws-forbid-carrying-armsquotation
  5. Ouch, those rules make it tough to put a wing on a wagon But not impossible On the other hand, fender flares and a 6in front splitter are okay...and I'm not sure exactly what "OEM strut towers...in their original configuration and intended usage" means for messing with suspension, but I see plenty of room for messing around. Looks like a fun class!
  6. That sounds really entertaining. What sort of aero modifications are you allowed to make? Can we expect to see a Leggy wagon with a park bench sitting on the hatch? And as far as suspension, it it limited to stock pickup points or can you really go crazy?
  7. Beauty! Isn't that the car that was racing in Grand Am Continental Tire Koni Challenge a few years back?
  8. Some of my favorite highlights pulled from my Kindle:
  9. Apparently the Pacific Coast Challenge (http://pccrally.com/index.html) occasionally includes CA events. This year the closest event was the Oregon 1000, from south of Portland to Coos Bay and Albany. PCC events would be a bit of a trek for you, but they're all multi-day gravel events, so worth it in my book. I'm sure there are single-day paved events closer to you, but I'll let SurlyOldManMN take care of that Oh, and we won our class for the year! I did it by a decent margin, but my navigator just squeaked by on a tiebreaker - even points, and same number of first places, so he took first because he had more second place finishes than the other guy!
  10. I had my girlfriend navigate for two days over the summer, and it went alright...
  11. Congrats on the great result! I still haven't run any gimmick rallies, but they always sound like fun. RyanGT and I are gearing up for the last rally in our Friday Nighter series on Nov 9. We're currently in 3rd place, 3 points off the leaders' 48 points. The top 4 teams are all within 5 points; 5th place has 28 so they're out of it. With a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 points system, it all comes down to this one. We need to win, and the current leaders need to finish 3rd or lower. We lost to them at the last rally by 3 points, and the next closest car in our class was 98 points behind us. Last year we won based on a tiebreaker (most rallies won) at the last rally of the year...
  12. This weekend I did a two day rally in SE Washington and NE Oregon. Nearly 500 miles of driving, including 278.85 miles of TSD sections, almost entirely on gravel roads. I left the Subie at home and took my bone stock '91 Camry. It was an absolute blast. By the end of the first day I was left-foot braking into almost every corner with decent visibility and able to get a nice drift over the crown of the road. My normal navigator was out of town, so I invited my girlfriend to come along, thinking it would either be awesome or the worst idea in the history of the world, ever. Luckily it was awesome! She had it figured out very quickly (while I was still trying to figure out the whole gravel TSD thing), and our scores plummeted over the course of the weekend. I think we still wound up third or fourth from last, but we had such a blast that I'll be doing it again next year for sure (but hopefully in something with a manual transmission; dealing with the auto was hell on hillclimb sections!). http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7097/7339183770_c371b2dfd6_c.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7082/7339176572_cb23e56abb_c.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7212/7339175232_1a1ab866bd_c.jpg
  13. So I haven't seen any of the races yet this season, but how has it been? I heard there was actually overtaking at Barber.
  14. Navigator and I are having a slow start to our TSD season. We finished fourth in the first rally, and fourth or worse in the second one (two weeks ago). The first one we can chalk up to beginning of the year jitters, but the second one was a result of poor rallymaster work and a simple yet costly mistake on our part. Very early on (I think it was the third NRI after the transit stage), there was a pause 60 for a signal. The light was red when we came around the corner about 300 yards from it, and we were stationary for 75 seconds. I was pissed about this shoddy pre-run work, but we pulled across, stopped for a few seconds, and filled out a 30-second time dec to make up for it. Then we forgot to give it to the first checkpoint, and took a 33 late on the leg . The second leg went very well, and we were surprised at the end of it to see that we had a score of over 100. Turned out the rallymaster screwed up again, and had the official distance off by over a mile. That stage was dropped altogether. The third stage didn't have any glaring errors on our part, but our score wasn't spectacular. If we'd turned in our time dec we would've been second, but as it was we missed out again. No mistakes next month! This is the second time that particular club has run a rally where there was both a too-short pause at a signal and a leg dropped for lack of a good pre-run. I'm not impressed with them.
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