Ok, 1 week before my big rally vacation. I took advantage of some crazy sales and bought cheap tickets to New Zealand.

I'm renting a shitbox ($22/day) and driving as many of the old WRC stage roads as i can (I have the route books from 2003 Rally New Zealand).

Then I'm heading down to the south island and watching the Rally of Nelson. Just a local event (end of their season) but a small local rally in New Zealand should be better than anything we have here.

If anybody has any tips, picture/info requests, or jealous commentary, bring it on.

-Dave

eyesoreracing Wrote:
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> Ok, 1 week before my big rally vacation. I took
> advantage of some crazy sales and bought cheap
> tickets to New Zealand.
>
> I'm renting a shitbox ($22/day) and driving as
> many of the old WRC stage roads as i can (I have
> the route books from 2003 Rally New Zealand).
>
> Then I'm heading down to the south island and
> watching the Rally of Nelson. Just a local event
> (end of their season) but a small local rally in
> New Zealand should be better than anything we have
> here.
>
> If anybody has any tips, picture/info requests, or
> jealous commentary, bring it on.
>
> -Dave

You fucker!
You better arrive early, take loadsa piccies, talk and drink with the locals and report everything here.

Or I'll.....
I'll...............

Hold my breath!

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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.

(insert jealous commentary here)

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Jay Woodward
Snohomish, WA
'90 Mazdog Frankenprotege
Chronologically, 46...

Write some nice stories about it so it's a "working vacation"!

And burn lots of film...er megapixels.

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Andrew Steere
Lyndeborough, NH
KB1PJY

That's what I thought, you lucky fucker.

I hope the weather holds up for ya, you meet lots of women, and you keep it shiney side up.

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Michael LeCompte

I'm bringing my woman with me, so the ones I meet there will have to be very adventurous...

-D

eyesoreracing Wrote:
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> I'm bringing my woman with me, so the ones I meet
> there will have to MAKE ME very adventurous...
>
> -D

Fixed for you

To get you in the mood; If you can find it, watch the movie "Bad Taste". Its an EPIC zombie movie made by good old boys from NZ. (really, its good!)

Or just watch all the lord of the rings movies, hahaha

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Welcome to the cult of JVL drink the koolaid or be banned.

So most of your driving is on the North island right? Up near Auckland? Where are your stops and routes and such shit?

So many good choices of cars there... you could get a skyline, a celica ct-4, mazda gt-r.... what are you two ridin' in?

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Michael LeCompte

Find Andrew Hawkeswood. Lives in Auckland and a really cool guy. Possibly competing in that rally even.

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Grant Hughes

First week is north island (as are all the old WRC stages), second week, and the Rally of Nelson, is on the south island.

There are lots of great cars in NZ, but for $23/day, I'm stuck with a Nissan Sunny or a Toyota Corolla, and I don't get to choose which one. Sunny will probably suck less.

There's a Skyline shop in Rotorua that I'm planning to visit. http://www.ripsltd.com/
I was looking into Infiniti V8 swaps into R32 bodies recently, and these guys were working on one using the AWD drivetrain from a JDM Nissan President. I'm hoping its still there...

Andrew Hawkeswood is, indeed, running in the Rally of Nelson. Running an open-class EVO 7. How do you know him?

-Dave

Check out the quality of the spectator info for this rally:
http://www.rallynelson.co.nz/Documents/RALLY%20Stage%20Map09ColourANCHOR.pdf

-Dave

Competed at Pike's Peak with him in 05. Helped find a rally car for him to use for practice since his Unlimited car was still in customs. Breakfast a few times too.

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-Mark
www.nocoastmotorsports.net

Damn it. That was me, posting from Mark's computer.

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Grant Hughes