Cars n Coffee April 2015

MLRC, Grackle Coffee and us – Rally Sputnik – put on a Cars and Coffee type event in Schomberg just prior to the Lanark Highlands Forest Rally. For those of you not on Facebook we have some pictures. (There were more cars but we missed a bunch due to chatting and etc. Our bad!)

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Lanark Highlands Forest Rally – Prepped

We are happy to announce that this is the earliest we have ever believed we were ready for a rally!*

*Note: the word “ready” can be defined differently. We, for example, consider a motor mount bolt that needs a nut to be ready. Others may differ. Although we did find a nut to put on it. Or to be pedantic, Brian found a nut and Ryan put it on. But hey, we’re ready!

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Lanark Highlands Forest Rally – Prep underway

We started getting ready for the first rally of our season, which being the lazy / broke creatures we are is Lanark Highlands Forest Rally (LHFR). We like this rally – good road, not too far away, and Perth is a nice town to visit. Given it was the coldest February in history ’round these parts we decided to put off our visits to the unheated shop until March. Which wasn’t all that warm either, plus we had a backlog of daily driver car repairs to address before we could start on the Manchurian. »

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Story of Rally Sputnik – the whole story (so far)

Yes, it’s all the pieces of the story in one long location. If you read all the individual parts there’s nothing new here, but now it’s easier to link to. So that must count for something!

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The story of Rally Sputnik Pt 4 – Tall Pines Tales

AKA The Adventures of Rally Sputnik across the 8th dimension

In September 2014  – about 2 months before Pines – we knew that in order to have a car to race there we had to forsake all other fun, friends and family, unless they liked working on rally cars.

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The story of Rally Sputnik Pt 3B – Fabrication? It’s all true!

Rally Sputnik Pt 3B – The Manchurian Candidate

AKA Fabrication? It’s all true!

Now that we had a car it was time to start stripping it apart. We got it to run long enough to prove the motor had all the parts and drove it onto the trailer to take it to the fabricator.

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