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Every June some friends and I get together in a field to race the cheap finds from Kijiji in Alberta. The general budget is $500, we don't outfit them with any safety equipment - just wear helmets. We do remove the coolant and replace it with water, apparently it's better for the cows that normally graze this field. There aren't too many other rules for modifications. Most guys remove back seats and carve the tires (think ATV tires). Cover the lights with tape so when they break there's less clean up. Oh, and don't be an rear end in a top hat - that would be a good way to ruin this for everybody. No idea how this guy found this Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS but he did, it won but faced stiff competition from a sixth gen FWD Celica, a seventh gen Celica GT, an Impreza wagon and a V6 Malibu. I didn't buy a car this year, I bought a drone to better film the rally but I did minimal work to get this 2001 Olds Alero V6 for my wife to race. It was a turd but neither of us put much into it. Here's a Jetta and Celica hanging out in the field. This kind of thing is not an uncommon sight. Usually the tire just pops off the rim and we put it back on with some ether, hairspray or whatever. Anyways, I used a Blade 350 QX3 AP drone with CGo2 camera, my old trusty Hero 2 and a borrowed Hero 3+ Silver to capture the rally. I put the movie together with iMovie and the only experience I really have with it is that I build this video each year. It gets better each year and I think this is the biggest leap in quality yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMhAnElQmgA
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# ? Jun 13, 2015 07:08 |
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I like it. Makes me feel the need to do something like this up in Wasilla/Palmer.
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# ? Jun 13, 2015 07:17 |
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Pretty jealous about that 2.5RS. It has to be completely trashed to be available at that price. Also, you know where to find me. I have the ability to find bad cars in this glorious province and the ability to race them offroad. And not much sense.
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# ? Jun 13, 2015 07:28 |
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Does anyone think it would be possible to do this in the sue-happy United States of expensive healthcare if you crash?
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# ? Jun 13, 2015 22:29 |
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CountOfNowhere posted:Does anyone think it would be possible to do this in the sue-happy United States of expensive healthcare if you crash? Simple solution, don't crash. If the US lets you sign away your rights to anybody with a contract. they should let you sign away your legs to some dude in a field. look at spectator drags.
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# ? Jun 13, 2015 23:34 |
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Can you repost the past years videos? I loved that one with that nasty sounding Kia
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# ? Jun 14, 2015 05:18 |
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8ender posted:Can you repost the past years videos? I loved that one with that nasty sounding Kia 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ai0euhoKfM 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh1KW974SKs 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjRjC96KnhM
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# ? Jun 14, 2015 05:49 |
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Holy poo poo, it's grassroots Rallycross - real rallycross!. That looks like soo much fun
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# ? Jun 14, 2015 06:35 |
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Holy poo poo, it's grassroots Rallycross - real rallycross!. That looks like soo much fun It's really awesome. I believe I made threads for the last two years with more info but I don't have archive access. I think we've done it for six years now, I've been there for the last five years. I'm not really a contender but I have a ton of fun out there. I'm one of the least mechanically abled guys there so I tend to buy cars that are already running and ready to go. Even when I have a decent car, my rally driving isn't up there with the top guys. My first year I picked up a free Chevy Corsica 4 cyl auto, it was terrible but we had fun. I think that one had a proper hand brake. Second year I found a 96 Civic CX auto, it did better and was really reliable - somebody else ended up using it in the third year. In the third year I used a 98 Sunfire GT 5 speed, it overheated quickly and died at just over 200 000 km. The next year I bought the red Integra from the video for $50 but ended up selling it for the same price to another guy after. This year was all filming. I didn't even get into a car, which was kind of unfortunate but I had a lot of fun making the video. I hope a lot of people dig the video because I think it looks great.
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# ? Jun 14, 2015 07:38 |
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This looks fun as hell!
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# ? Jun 14, 2015 14:12 |
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Insanely jealous as I am every year.
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# ? Jun 14, 2015 14:34 |
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Slow is Fast posted:Insanely jealous as I am every year. Agreed, this always looks like a hilarious amount of fun.
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# ? Jun 14, 2015 18:38 |
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Jesus dude yesss. Peak AI right here. It's like being a teenager except mildly more well planned. Mad props.
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# ? Jun 15, 2015 00:54 |
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When are you going to host this for us plebeians in the rest of the Alberta ai crew? I'd come up north for a weekend of fun in a deathtrap car.
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# ? Jun 15, 2015 16:05 |
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Slung Blade posted:When are you going to host this for us plebeians in the rest of the Alberta ai crew? Yeah this is basically albertaaimeet.txt
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# ? Jun 15, 2015 16:10 |
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Just echoing the jealousy. Wish our healthcare was free....
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# ? Jun 15, 2015 16:15 |
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Slung Blade posted:When are you going to host this for us plebeians in the rest of the Alberta ai crew? Before this year's rally the guy running it wanted people to bring friends, make it bigger. Then he talked to a lawyer and got scared about liability and started talking like it was all over. I was with him yesterday and he says it will never be cancelled so next spring I expect he'll be back trying to grow it again so we'll see what happens.
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# ? Jun 15, 2015 16:56 |
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Shoota_McG posted:Before this year's rally the guy running it wanted people to bring friends, make it bigger. Then he talked to a lawyer and got scared about liability and started talking like it was all over. I was with him yesterday and he says it will never be cancelled so next spring I expect he'll be back trying to grow it again so we'll see what happens. Awesome, keep us informed if you want the goonsquad to camp out on your land and stink up the joint.
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# ? Jun 15, 2015 19:52 |
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I was out near big valley yesterday, and there was some poo poo terrible land that would be perfect for this kind of thing. The sign said $60k for a quarter section, but it was a really old sign. Might be time to look into opening up "please don't sue me motorsports park""
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# ? Jun 15, 2015 19:58 |
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Powershift posted:I was out near big valley yesterday, and there was some poo poo terrible land that would be perfect for this kind of thing. The sign said $60k for a quarter section, but it was a really old sign. I think you mean Please Don't Sue Me Automobile Maintenance and Testing Facility.
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# ? Jun 15, 2015 20:09 |
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Powershift posted:I was out near big valley yesterday, and there was some poo poo terrible land that would be perfect for this kind of thing. The sign said $60k for a quarter section, but it was a really old sign. Maybe for leasing? poo poo man, I want some land out that way for hunting on, mls had it listed at way more than 60/quarter last time I checked. Can you grab the realtor's number next time you're out there?
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# ? Jun 15, 2015 20:11 |
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Seriously mulling buying a Rabbit Cabriolet to swap the Scirocco's running gear over to next spring. This would be an amazing way to send off the old scirocco body.
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# ? Jun 15, 2015 20:46 |
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1500quidporsche posted:Seriously mulling buying a Rabbit Cabriolet to swap the Scirocco's running gear over to next spring. This would be an amazing way to send off the old scirocco body. There's no shortage of semi-primo bitch baskets kicking around on Kijiji, all you'd need is one of those fancy-dan A1 braces and a top delete.
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# ? Jun 15, 2015 21:16 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:There's no shortage of semi-primo bitch baskets kicking around on Kijiji, all you'd need is one of those fancy-dan A1 braces and a top delete. That's pretty much the game plan. I've been forced into the bitch basket route because every regular Rabbit that pops up is garbage. It's really up to when the Scirocco's rust starts getting terminal and how much garage space if any I have at that point to be doing body work. I'm sure smashing the car up in the Loop isn't helping much.
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