LHFR – Post event cleanup
Or, ‘Well would you look at that.’
»Or, ‘Well would you look at that.’
»Yes, we finished in the top 10. And of course it was 10th. But still, right?
»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!)
»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!
»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. »
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!
»RallySputnik in conjunction with the Grackle Coffee Company and the Maple Leaf Rally Club are presenting a Cars & Coffee. Parking for your cars (or bikes) will be in the Raycor parking lot directly across from the Grackle.
»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.
»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.
»Rally Sputnik Pt 3A – The Manchurian Candidate Pt 1
AKA Descent into Madness
After deciding to sell a relatively reliable, extremely tough but under-powered one wheel drive car (well, two, but with an open differential) the next logical question for our heroes was: what to replace it with?
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