Leon's car farm

[Leon]

[thesameguy]

YEAH!!!

[Leon]

So I'm a bit rubbish at updating this thread.

Commodore is sold a while ago. Decided that it was too nice an example to hack up turning into a rally car, plus it was just too much of a bus. Heavy slow gearshift, heavy clutch, just too much weight on the front axle too.

Bought a little EP82 Starlet just for hacking around in. Have done a couple of autocrosses in it, and have had my fun, so will be rid of it soon.

Did my first gravel rally in my Corolla. Was a fairly long day in the car, with 2 hours and 8 minutes of stage time, thrashing the life out of the car on rough gravel roads.

Lots of fun. Although foot to the floor in fourth gear on gravel, over brows, takes some nerve.

I was slow as a wet Wednesday, which is entirely to be expected for my first rally experience. But I didn't crash much (fell into a ditch / drain at walking speed, and drove back out again).





Just been re-arranging stuff to try to fit it in my tiny garage. Between the 86 and the Corolla, I actually have at last count, six complete sets (of four) spare wheels. That really takes up a lot of space.

[Random]

Wall-mounted tire racks.

[Leon]

Wall-mounted tire racks.

Insufficient head space in garage unfortunately. It's a tiny garage.

[Random]

Put a layer down in the living room with plywood on top?

[Leon]

I might just get a small garden shed, and put all the wheels and tyres in there.

[Random]

That works, too. The only thing to be worried about is freezing temps, race compounds particularly.

[Leon]

Doesn't really happen in Wellington

[Random]

*cue blizzards* (in 6 months... )