Merry Xmas from Travis Pastrana

speedsnake74 Wrote:
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> its a pleasure to intoduce myself and you can all
> go fuck yourselves !

I like this guy. :thumbsup

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Brian Driggs | KG7KCA | PHX, AZ | 89 Pajero
alterius non sit qui suus esse potest

tedm Wrote:
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> Andrew,
> I didn't mean any disrespect to yourself or your
> Uncle or Marc or Dick or Jane. I haven't met any
> of them. I was just curious about who or what
> supposedly got TP's huggies all in a bunch.
>
> And what the H^ll is wrong with stolen cars and
> drugs. ;-)
>
> Best of luck!
> Ted
>
> Ted Mendham
> www.rensport.net


No offence taken....

you will have to try much harder than that...

Marc is my team manager - very passionate and very opinionated (Im so glad he is computer illiterate) and can be a pain in the ass when he wants to, but hey, cant we all.
But he gets to deal with all the shit while I get to play Mr Nice Guy...
Lets just say I think he has a good grip of TP's Huggies...

and nothing.....

Combining the two is how I learnt to drive !!!! Just Kidding ;/

a.

DR1665 Wrote:
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> speedsnake74 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > its a pleasure to intoduce myself and you can
> all
> > go fuck yourselves !
>
> I like this guy. :thumbsup
>
>
>
>
> Brian DR1665 | Phoenix, AZ
> Have a lucky day.

This is what rally needs. Welcome.

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Matt Smith

Racing in glorious black and red

My daily life is a Saab story (sold!)

john vanlandingham Wrote:
>
> Fortress
> Americaâ„¢,




Why is that trademarked?

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Matt Smith

Racing in glorious black and red

My daily life is a Saab story (sold!)

Jens Wrote:
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> speedsnake74 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> ....
>
> > I worked my ass off for 2 years and in 1990
> I
> > bought a Datsun 510
>
> ....
>
> > its a pleasure to intoduce myself and you can
> all
> > go fuck yourselves !
>
>
> This gets better by the minute. (Interestingly
> the Special Stage website crashed... hmmm...
> that's a coincidence... but conspiracy theories
> aside)....
>
> Lemme see.... I went over to Rally America's
> website to find out who this bloody bugger Andrew
> Pinker is. Tuns out it's some guy who lost the RA
> championship for 2007.
>
> This is getting funnier by the minute.
>
> So, Andrew, was losing made up for by all the
> prize money?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
Jens,

Ok

The SS website crashing was worth much more than any prize money I promise you !

to clear any misconceptions -
2007 Rally America prize winnings = $0 US or Australian

Nice use of 'bloddy bugger' you,ve travelled ?

Interesting quoting of my post - just the 510 and the go fuck yourself section..

Somethin caught your eye old boy !


As for the losing the 2007 RA thingy yep, Lost it, no one to blame, did my best..

Just going through what to do different in 08, with me old friend JACK D.

Thank fuck its another year in 4 days, cant wait to start again...

PS. hope santas an evil bastard and bought you a 2008 STi just to piss you off !

Andy.

Hey andy so ya started off like most guys who have actually done sumpin in the sport IN A RWD car!!!!
Was the 510 you had the real 510, ya know 68-73 IRS ones?

Did you have a L-series lump in it, or did you upgrade to something more fun like a FJ20??

Anyways as one of the Founding memebers or Rally Anarchy (it was invented just in the driveway one evening while we were all bitching about the heavy handed "moderating" on the appropriately named "SS.com", and the "moderator extrodinaire" who sits in some fuckin blue Sub-a-rat and we were all dersiring someplace where we could write about junk-n-stuff just like we all speak), I really would like to welcome you aboard here.

But come on, what's this about the fawkin snowmobile.

You can tell us, we won't tell anybody else.
Honest 8).

And what's with the "South Sweden" location?
You actually there shoving herrings down your gullet?

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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.

john vanlandingham Wrote:
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> speedsnake74 Wrote:
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>
> > My Uncles a retired bank manager in
> Australia,
> > worked hard his whole life, got a good family
> and
> > loves a beer....
> >
> > one of my real heroes !
> >
> > hope that clears that up for ya !
> >
> > Andy P.
>
> Hi Andy, glad to see you post here.
> Not trying to be rude but care to give us some
> insight on what you think could have been behind
> the message that Pastrana wrote?
>
> You may or may not know but here in Fortress
> Americaâ„¢, there's a long and sordid history of
> rule bending, and special treatment favorable to
> the so called "factory" Subaru of America team,
> and they had some pretty obnoxious folks
> essentially taunting everybody just a few years
> back including some really repellent Pommie
> bastards. So I was thinking that since its still
> the same people running the operation, maybe they
> figure they can still do anything they they want
> and get all offended if anybody dares to encroach
> on whet they see is a Championship Series that
> they have bought and paid for.
>
>
> And come on give us some dirt on this business of
> "THE" snowmobiler, it's all done and in the books
> so won't change anything to hear a bit of what was
> supposedly "really" going on.
>
>
>
>
>
> John Vanlandingham
> Sleezattle, WA, USA
>
> Vive le Prole-le-ralliat
>
> www.jvab.f4.ca



given that the season is over, i'd like to know what the penalty vt got was for. someone out there must know.

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-Mark
www.nocoastmotorsports.net

speedsnake74 Wrote:
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....

> Somethin caught your eye old boy !

Yep.... this is really funny.

speedsnake74 Wrote:
>
> PS. hope santas an evil bastard and bought you a
> 2008 STi just to piss you off !
>
> Andy.
>


Andy,

I love your quotes. You make me laugh everytime I read one of your posts.

See yaa at Sno.

Catherine W.

john vanlandingham Wrote:
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> Hey andy so ya started off like most guys who
> have actually done sumpin in the sport IN A RWD
> car!!!!
> Was the 510 you had the real 510, ya know 68-73
> IRS ones?
>

Weren't 510s called "bluebirds" downunder? Coz i remember hearing about bluebirds as being hot cars but not any such thing as a 510 until i came to the US. In fact, one of my fathers friends was always restoring/building and then selling them somewhere in Auburn

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rally gods would turn in their graves if they ever knew Lada's were now part of EU rallying!!!

john vanlandingham Wrote:
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> Hey andy so ya started off like most guys who
> have actually done sumpin in the sport IN A RWD
> car!!!!
> Was the 510 you had the real 510, ya know 68-73
> IRS ones?
>
> Did you have a L-series lump in it, or did you
> upgrade to something more fun like a FJ20??
>
> Anyways as one of the Founding memebers or Rally
> Anarchy (it was invented just in the driveway one
> evening while we were all bitching about the heavy
> handed "moderating" on the appropriately named
> "SS.com", and the "moderator extrodinaire" who
> sits in some fuckin blue Sub-a-rat and we were all
> dersiring someplace where we could write about
> junk-n-stuff just like we all speak), I really
> would like to welcome you aboard here.
>
> But come on, what's this about the fawkin
> snowmobile.
>
> You can tell us, we won't tell anybody else.
> Honest 8).
>
> And what's with the "South Sweden" location?
> You actually there shoving herrings down your
> gullet?
>
> John Vanlandingham
> Sleezattle, WA, USA
>
> Vive le Prole-le-ralliat
>
> www.jvab.f4.ca


like most guys..... I dunno about that now.....
I think I may be the last of that generation, I just got the RWD experience in just before i was coaxed (by people who knew more than me) into a frontwheel drive 1300cc shitbox..

yep, the real deal, a 1968, I Put in an L20B short block that I rebuilt with a friend and strapped a L18 head onto it - perfect compression for aussie pump gas.
This only came about because after finishing the L20 rebuild I dropped the L20 head while walking from the shed to the car, it broke the front cam bearing casting off... what a wanker ! but it turned out for the best and I still have all my toes !

Found a datsun 240k being parted out and got the 5 speed tranny and front struts/hubs/brakes off it for fuck all - shit, I was so happy that day driving home in my moms car, covered in crap after stripping that stuff out of some shopping car someone was parting out in their front yard....
Mom was not so happy....

twin 45 DCOE's, shortened driveshaft, low diff ratio (4.1 I think) some decent shocks. fibreglass panels, ground down the front calipers so I could still get my 13" wheels on.....

Aluminium 6 point cage, 3 point harnesses.

Every cop in town chased me...
Every other kid in town raced me (90% had rotaries)

and every week I broke something on the bitch !

Tailshaft bolts
axels
all of the flywheel bolts (compression lock ups)
even ran over the alternator with the back wheels after it snapped its mountings once.

and when I didnt break somethin it would just stop... and I'd walk, and hitch..

and when I got back to it with a buddy's car and a tow rope it would start again..

like I said it was a Bitch - attitude problem I always said !

But the moral of the story is, I never got to compete in it on a proper stage rally.....
why..
Cause I did not know shit about rallying at the time and set about building this car before studying rules (pre-internet) and asking questions, by the time I had finished it and spent the small amount of cash I had on it the rules had changed and it was so far from legal to compete in a rally, well, I had to start again....

Today I'd buy that car back in an instant...

for anyone who wants to get into this shit...
Number one thing to do if you wanna start rallying -
Swallow your fuckin pride and ask people who know !


okay, old school justification rant over....


yep in south sweden... Arild, near Hoganas, near Helsingborg....

Herring HQ.

Snowmobiler dude.....

fuck

why did I mention that.....

Its such an old story,

I could have killed christian that day, he scared the shit out of me...
and to this day that's what pisses me off about the whole thing.

he lent in my window after red flagging me and implied that they had hit a snowmobile.

all I could see was travis at his car off the side of the road with a crowd of people.. I was imagining the worst, when I got out the car and saw they had a FLAT TIRE and no damage, no damaged snowmobilies, and a buch of Snowmobilers saying "what happened, why did travis stop" once I made eye contact with travis, I knew it was all bullshit.... turned out they had not even come close to a snowmobiler.. just really good opportunity to cancel a stage because they had a puncture and had been off. I do believe travis did not make the call - the body language between him and christian for the rest of the rally made that fairly obvious !

yes you can see one in the video, but they have tracks that are back from the roadside up there and you see them all the time..

anyway, so I meet the dude at SEMA - very funny guy - lets just say he confirmed my suspicions of what really happened and more than I ever expected.... I wont say any more than that.

turoc Wrote:
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> john vanlandingham Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Hey andy so ya started off like most guys
> who
> > have actually done sumpin in the sport IN A
> RWD
> > car!!!!
> > Was the 510 you had the real 510, ya know
> 68-73
> > IRS ones?
> >
>
> Weren't 510s called "bluebirds" downunder? Coz i
> remember hearing about bluebirds as being hot cars
> but not any such thing as a 510 until i came to
> the US. In fact, one of my fathers friends was
> always restoring/building and then selling them
> somewhere in Auburn

Correct name was a DATTO 1600 ! bluebird was much later

if you were realy lucky you would have a 1600sss which came stock with twin SU's

andy.

A Canadian official said a few weeks later at Perce Neige: "In Canada, the Red Cross is for medical emergencies only. You can deal with issues like snowmobiles near the road with the pedal in the middle."

Or words to that effect.

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Andrew Steere
Lyndeborough, NH
KB1PJY

speedsnake74 Wrote:
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>> to clear any misconceptions -
> 2007 Rally America prize winnings = $0 US or
> Australian
>
>

What?! You've completely burst my bubble. I read a quote from Travis on SS where he said you can make $100,000 rallying in the U.S.!

Uh, maybe a salary from Subaru?