Guy that rented Block his car down there is also cool. Don't remember his name, but his crew was fun. We did some Navy Seals type spectating with them at Laughlin one year. Like 05 I think.

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Grant Hughes

Do you mean Sam Murray? I think that's who Ken teamed up with for his adventures down there, but I don't know it that's who got him the car.

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Ben Hetland
1973 Volvo 142 project car (with some cone-smashing on dirt in it's future, however)

"No. Rally Racing is a back alley sport filled with jackals, headhunters and thugs!"
-Pops Racer (Speed Racer movie)

www.utahrallygroup.com

Yeah it was totally Sam Murray. Never actually met Sam, just hung out with his crew on the stages.

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Grant Hughes

Roughly 6 hours after the plane landed in New Zealand:





This is the rally machine:





drives like a 1.5-liter Buick, but we're making the most of it.

-Dave



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Finally staying in a real hotel (first night in a hostel, second night on a boat), and we're watching TV. Just watched Top Gear. Now we're watching deep, deep coverage of Rally Austrailia. And by deep, I mean I just saw a Corolla...

What a country...

-Dave

No kiddin'... thats classic new zealand rally road right there.

How come your chica isn't callin' the notes? hehe.

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Michael LeCompte

The much fabled crown of these roads looks crazy from that vid. It looks like you could get high centered from just driving in the middle of the road on some of those turns.

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[jvl] Ohh noooohs! There's an h'off tawpik thread in the gent-urinal dick-cushion four-hum. THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!![/jvl]

You wouldn't happen to know if that's available as a torrent on the internet, would you? Rally Australia is one of my favorite rounds, and there's nothing better than getting rally unwatered(?) down!

Have a blast over there, I'm super jeolous!

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Ben Hetland
1973 Volvo 142 project car (with some cone-smashing on dirt in it's future, however)

"No. Rally Racing is a back alley sport filled with jackals, headhunters and thugs!"
-Pops Racer (Speed Racer movie)

www.utahrallygroup.com

Working on getting pictures and clips onto the interwebs. Meanwhile, this was my favorite car:



unfortunately, I just missed it at service, and then it broke and disappeared, so I never got a close up look.

-D

I want those wheels! The old school Enkie Rally Compe's.

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Michael LeCompte

I drove on of those. It was fun after I figured out the non syncromesh dog drive trasmission!

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Robert.

"You are way too normal to be on Rally Anarchy." Eddie Fiorelli.

When/where did you get to drive one?

First time I ever saw one was when I toured Nissan's proving ground in Oppama, Japan (just outside Yokohama) in 1992. They were using them to train test drivers. Guys would run around the oval, go halfway though the banked turn and then pitch them sideways on the banking, drift all the way down to the straight, turn down into a crossover section in the middle of the oval, do a figure-8 donut in the middle of the crossover, then shoot back out onto the oval to do it again. There were two 240RSes and a Z32 doing this continually for the short time I was there.

That's what gave me the false impression that Japan was a cool place to be.

-Dave

It was an ex works Gp.B car in Kenya. 1990-1991.

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Robert.

"You are way too normal to be on Rally Anarchy." Eddie Fiorelli.

Jealous...

pikespeakgtx Wrote:
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> No kiddin'... thats classic new zealand rally road
> right there.
>
> How come your chica isn't callin' the notes? hehe.
>
> Michael LeCompte


at around 45 seconds that is clearly a "dont cut" moment if i ever saw one.