Ascona73 Bob Legere Infallible Moderator Location: Spofford, NH Join Date: 03/07/2007 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 308 Rally Car: 1971 Opel Ascona |
I stay in touch via Facebook, but not much otherwise. He lives 4 hours away from me and hasn't rallied in quite a few years. That is his orange and gray Golf depicted above. His name is Chris Havas. Opel is a 4-letter word... http://www.flickr.com/photos/10498579@N07/sets/ |
wildert Brian Klausen Elite Moderator Location: Denmark Join Date: 03/21/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 388 Rally Car: VW Golf GTi 16V |
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DanielSL Daniel Senior Moderator Location: Vero Beach, Florida Join Date: 03/02/2016 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 338 Rally Car: 2005 VW Mk. 4 Golf GTI 1.8T |
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wildert Brian Klausen Elite Moderator Location: Denmark Join Date: 03/21/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 388 Rally Car: VW Golf GTi 16V |
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john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Mega Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Usually...problem is half these mooks are so busy lookin for offense that they don't even see the humor.. Remember! in America you must always show yourself to be amazed and nearly jealously impressed at whatever anybody says they bought or are going to do..Every one is special, nobody is not amazing and any leksak or I guess you say legetøj they post a photo of is to be met with "whoa! awesome!" and "kewl".. Try it, see how it goes...you'll be more popular if you do ad that's important. 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. |
DanielSL Daniel Senior Moderator Location: Vero Beach, Florida Join Date: 03/02/2016 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 338 Rally Car: 2005 VW Mk. 4 Golf GTI 1.8T |
Correct! Which is why the line after the "only" line you quoted was - Hello, Joe Pesci. Lmao. Joe Pesci was the actor who played Cousin Vinny, in a movie called My Cousin Vinny, and he is well known in the states for the line "Deez two youts", meaning youths. I found it similar and funny; hence the LMAO, which in the states is internet short hand for laughing my ass off", which I did. I guess humor only translates one way with the Danish. At least your pastries are tasty. Disregard anything John says on this thread. His only use is to make cardboard cutouts of his face, and use them for apex and handbrake turn practice. |
wildert Brian Klausen Elite Moderator Location: Denmark Join Date: 03/21/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 388 Rally Car: VW Golf GTi 16V |
Humor translates just fine with Danes - particularly sarcasm and irony. We have an old Danish saying by a guy named Piet Hein, which translates roughly something like this: "He who believes that humor is only for fun, and only takes serious matters seriously, has a poor understanding of both concepts". Applying this saying to our little verbal crossing of swords, I find it a bit hard to believe that your reply wasn't meant at least a bit sarcastic. Regardless, you still fail to address the serious point in my post: namely that 250 whp is an utter waste of time in a FWD grass-o-crosser. Heck, 200 whp is an utter waste of time until a million other things have been sorted - tires, suspension and seat time (LOTS of seat time) being at the top of the list. So instead of discussing humor in various cultures around the world, why don't we get to the crux of the matter? Brgrds Brian |
john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Mega Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Actually, you fucking fuck (that's humor in 49 other states) (you are a Masshole, friend, born there so a Masshole for life and if I do say so, I really have to agree with those who have been kind enough to explain what your problem is--those who took the time..thanks) my good friend wildert go back many years and from as far as I can tell he and I seem to be on a very close wave-length and his build very similar to what I stress to people here in North America for rally.. For rally...got that? His build would be laughably ostentatious (that's English for extravagantly showy for the point of showing off) for such a little 40 second jaunt at slow speed doding a few cones that we would all be rightfully compelled to, with the best humor we could muster, explain to him the error in his ways. That's Brian, who is an actual rally guy, and who is a human--notice he puts his full name up like he's supposed to, doesn't try and hide who he is and violate the one major rule here--- that's because he's not a Masshole living in that desolate cultural and moral waste-land that was once Florida but is now, flodded as it is with mooks from the other end of the I-95 corridor has become Flar-duh and also because he's not a complete and total bullshitter, bragging on the one hand about spending $10,000 on suspension for a POS low powered near stock Golf, building 6-10 Eye Teeth" cars but completely unable to see the difference between shitty diffs and good ones..." <------that's all humor. Oh and since you feel we all need elucidating who Joe Pesci is and about his hilarious character...well think again...(fuck me you Masshole Flar-idiots are fuckin ignorant, aren't you? No wonder every single idea--aside from the stock car purchace---is every single one pointless and stupid FOR AUTOP-CROSS, RALLYCROSS or RALLY---) Go way back to the 1950s...( I don't post this for you. You're not a full human, just an inter-net troublemaker with no name, no background): This is where "youse guys" was first and continues to enlighten the world, along with a number of other gems:
Have I helped you understand? I already suggested you should either be nice and listen or go and plague Facebook or something 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. |
DanielSL Daniel Senior Moderator Location: Vero Beach, Florida Join Date: 03/02/2016 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 338 Rally Car: 2005 VW Mk. 4 Golf GTI 1.8T |
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john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Mega Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
You fucking fuck..You come here with what can only be describe as ridiculous ideas, post photos of headlights and junk totally unnecessary, write reams of probably drug or alcohol induced fantasies, ignore EVERY SINGLE PERSON advising that YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG from conception onward...and you fixate on ME as being out of step and wasting time. You are wasting band width. Just like the last couple of gung ho never done it "rally-crosser" fools, especially from Flar-duh and where its stupidly hot. (It just occured to me! I don't want people to think I'm rude...So I am assuming that "You fucking fuck" is the common and ordinary form of address where you come from..It does seem appropriate but please correct me if I am mistaken..I usually make an effort to acknowledge other peoples regional dialects, like to my friend Brian I'd say "Hej", to my friend Igor I always say "Dobry dan, tavarich!" , to Ola or stig i say "Hej din gamla snok"... see?) Stop wasting your breath. Follow the rules, complete your name or go away. 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. |
paperpaper Dan Downey Ultra Moderator Location: Franklin, MA Join Date: 02/24/2014 Age: Settling Down Posts: 28 Rally Car: e30 |
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Pete Pete Remner Godlike Moderator Location: Cleveland, Ohio Join Date: 01/11/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 2,022 |
Destroyed a pair of "hard" BR22s this weekend, 12.5 runs for me and 11 runs for the car owner, on gravel, maybe 45-50 seconds each. Extrapolate that to stage miles however you wish. I dunno how much power it has but the turbo comes on like a hammer and then you knock over many cones from the gravel blast. Pete Remner Cleveland, Ohio 1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing) 1978 Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver. |
RALLYRS Mike Ball Professional Moderator Location: Simi Valley,Ca. Join Date: 07/15/2011 Age: Ancient Posts: 466 Rally Car: Nope...I wish...RWD 2 Door Jeep XJ 4.0 5-spd Dirt-o-cross car(we have no grass!)2.3 ZX3 rallyx car(sold) |
Well sounds like a blast ..even if you guys didn't score well....how did you do?
Yeah..I never even thought about the disadvantage of cars powering the rear wheels taking cones out with blasts of gravel...but our organizer reminded us one day to be careful about that. One less thing for me to worry about in the Focus for the most part I suppose...not that I didn't (and don't still occasionally)lust after some rwd action as well... ................................................. ..................... Support your Local North American Rally Forum!! While they are still around-and get the hell off Farsebook!! We still have Specialstage & RallyAnarchy. Post up Here: https://rallyanarchy.com/phorum/posting.php and here: https://www.specialstage.com/forums/forum.php |
DanielSL Daniel Senior Moderator Location: Vero Beach, Florida Join Date: 03/02/2016 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 338 Rally Car: 2005 VW Mk. 4 Golf GTI 1.8T |
Pete; As long as its gravel doing the knock down, at least you won't be penalized. LOL.
I finally found OEM alloys that fit the GTi brakes, and allow me to install the TT brakes in the rear. This will give me the ability to run the DMack tyres on 15"'s, and have vented rotors all the way around. Staying away from cross-drilled, to keep down the chance of cracking, but will use slotted and vented on all four corners with Hawk pads. For now, I'm looking at the DMack DMG2 in G2H (Hard) for down here in Florida. Maybe a Medium compound, for year round usability. With it being only RX, I am thinking I will get a full season or more out of a set. Will purchase 6 for now, to include spares. They aren't that much more than using Snow tires. I think 3 for the price of 4. So I can get 6 for the cost of two sets of tires I probably would not have been happy with anyways in the long run. |
john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Mega Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Yeah I really worrry about the solid rotors on the back of my Volvo wagon when I'm driving to the Seventyleven for a pack of ciggies.. It takes about 2 minutes and I wonder if I should have taken the Cosworth 4x4 instead because it has vented. So far thou nothing bad has happened, thank GOD! 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. |