"RacecaR" (RacecaR)
12/11/2013 at 16:32 • Filed to: None
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"RacecaR" (RacecaR)
12/11/2013 at 16:32 • Filed to: None | 1
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Hello, my name is Chris. I am a 36 year old married man with a couple kids running around my house that the wife swears are mine. Been checking out Jalopnik for about a year now, and found oppositelock a few months ago.
Just an all around car guy. I love seeing how things work, the beauty of cars, the sound of cars, racing, and just about anything car related. Not real mechanically inclined (like, I can not pull an engine apart, and put it back together. I can pull it apart just fine...). But I do enjoy doing my own work, but know my limits.
I love driving more than just about any other action in my life. I learned how to really drive on a gravel country back road. That is where I learned car control, speed control, steering, how not to panic when you are heading straight into a ditch...all the aspects of a good driver. When I grow up, I want to be a rally driver.
I have owned about 10 project cars in the past 10 years. Pretty much all of them have been failures because of my laziness/lack of motivation/lack of confidence.
So yeah, that's me.
EDIT: Just remembered a funny story. The car I drove on the gravel roads was a '93 Sunbird. One time I had to take it in to a transmission shop because it was not shifting correctly. When I picked it up after they fixed it, they handed me a copy of the work order. Down in the notes section, someone had written "gravel rocks everywhere in lower engine bay and transmission area."
I laughed.
ddavidn
> RacecaR
12/11/2013 at 16:33 |
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Welcome, relative Oppo newbie and fellow rally enthusiast!
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RacecaR
> ddavidn
12/11/2013 at 16:39 |
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Thanks, and beautiful!
I remember back when I used to spend so much time watching WRC on Speedvision. That and the BTCC. Those were the days!
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ddavidn
> RacecaR
12/11/2013 at 16:43 |
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I wish I could watch WRC and BTCC on tv...
Paul
> RacecaR
12/11/2013 at 16:47 |
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Hello!
I'm not what you'd call a regular poster (on my Kinja blog or Oppo), but you might see me around occasionally. Out of interest, what happens to your project cars when they become failures in your eyes? You should totally try and finish one: there's no failure if you can make it run, and you'd have something to be really proud of.
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RacecaR
> Paul
12/11/2013 at 17:00 |
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Thanks for the pep talk. HAHA!
Only two went to the scrap heap after being parted out. Don't worry, they were just Mitsubishi Mirages. The others were all sold to someone else who did whatever with them.
PRBot II
> RacecaR
12/11/2013 at 17:01 |
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Welcome!
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Paul
> RacecaR
12/11/2013 at 17:59 |
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I don't see many Mirages around Ireland, so to me they're fairly unusual cars even if they are mundane. A friend of mine has a Mirage Colt, and it seems like a hoot to drive based on my experiences as a passenger. :P
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RacecaR
> Paul
12/11/2013 at 18:33 |
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Yeah in Ireland you got the hatches that the US didn't get. And a bunch of engine variants that we didn't get. And actually the Lancer everywhere else is the mirage sedan in the US.