Just a little tease

"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures)
11/09/2013 at 20:26 • Filed to: rally, the rally takeover

So last month after competing in the Lake Superior Performance Rally I flew out to the Pacific Northwest to do a story on an absolutely insane rally car (story hopefully to be finished by the end of next week). Here's a piece of the onboard footage from my ride-along. The driver (a masterful professional if ever there was one) was, by his standards, taking it easy, but I still saw speeds go over 100 on a few occasions. Any guesses what the car is?

DISCUSSION (69)

DocWalt > Dusty Ventures
11/09/2013 at 20:40

ACP's Scion?

Ghost Dog - For the kittens > Dusty Ventures
11/09/2013 at 20:42

Fiesta R2?

Unrelated: I really enjoyed your side-by-side post a bit ago. It was awesome. Can we expect more?

Dusty Ventures > Ghost Dog - For the kittens
11/09/2013 at 20:54

Any idea which side-by-side it was? I've done a couple. And not a Fiesta

Ghost Dog - For the kittens > Dusty Ventures
11/09/2013 at 20:57

It was a crucial race, and there was a difficult catch-up that was needed on your part. There may, or may not have been a female in the other car. Success was had!

Dusty Ventures > Ghost Dog - For the kittens
11/09/2013 at 21:03

Ah, that one. The other car was my driver's mom. Passing her on stage was purely a bragging rights thing, she's in a different class, but man was it fun.

Dusty Ventures > DocWalt
11/09/2013 at 21:51

Nope

leicester > Dusty Ventures
11/09/2013 at 22:04

Class 11 Bug?

Dusty Ventures > leicester
11/09/2013 at 22:07

The only way those can hit 100 is if we're speaking in kilometers. And even then they need a downhill ;)

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Dusty Ventures
11/09/2013 at 22:46

Ur-Quattro? With John Buffum driving?

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/09/2013 at 22:49

PLEASE BE AN EVO DAGNABBIT!

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/09/2013 at 22:55

No, but he used to drive for Mitsubishi Ralliart

I do need to get myself into an Evo...

Dusty Ventures > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
11/09/2013 at 22:58

No, but I'd love to take that ride! Even if he stuffs it like he did the last time around.

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/09/2013 at 22:59

Also points for using "dagnabbit"

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/09/2013 at 22:59

Hmm. Ur-Quattro, then?

PLEASE BE AN UR-QUATTRO!

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/09/2013 at 23:05

If it's a Subaru, I'm going to throw Puffalumps at you.

saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars > Dusty Ventures
11/09/2013 at 23:25

Saab 92?

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/09/2013 at 23:26

Oh man, if it were a Ur-Quattro there's no way I would have had the self control to keep it quiet this long

I'm totally making a wish list off of the guesses you guys are making

Dusty Ventures > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars
11/09/2013 at 23:29

Nøpe

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/09/2013 at 23:29

Is it weird that I now half wish it was a Subaru because using Puffalumps as ammo sounds hilarious to me?

saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars > Dusty Ventures
11/09/2013 at 23:32

I could have sworn that sounded like a two-stroke! In all seriousnessity (my favorite Police album, by the way), was it some sort of Subaru?

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/09/2013 at 23:37

NO!

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/09/2013 at 23:38

Citroen? Because, like, dude, we don't get those here.

Dusty Ventures > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars
11/09/2013 at 23:47

Kinja'd!!!

I've been advised by my blue friend here to say no

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/09/2013 at 23:48

No it's not weird? Excellent. I thought I was crazy or something

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/09/2013 at 23:55

Nope. But speaking of cars we don't get here there was a Peugeot 206 rally car for sale in Texas earlier this year. I wanted it bad.

Kinja'd!!!

leicester > Dusty Ventures
11/10/2013 at 00:19

or perhaps pitching off a tall enough cliff. heh.

Dusty Ventures > leicester
11/10/2013 at 00:49

It's happened on occasion

Kinja'd!!!

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/10/2013 at 01:35

Buy it.

This wasn't the SEMA Camry, was it? Because that idea should've given the dudebrotruck a swirly.

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/10/2013 at 01:37

Sadly someone else snatched it up during the summer.

Nope. Not the SEMA Camry. Despite appearances that Camry is not meant for gravel.

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/10/2013 at 01:41

Is this what happened to the mythical Global Rallycross CR-Z?

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/10/2013 at 01:43

Actually I'm pretty sure this is what happened to the mythical Global Rallycross CR-Z

Kinja'd!!!

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/10/2013 at 01:45

Well, then, let's narrow down the possibilities. Did it at least have truck nuts?

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/10/2013 at 01:46

I refuse to get in any vehicle sporting truck nuts

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/10/2013 at 02:11

LIES. Truck nuts are mandatory in the Pacific Northwest.

RS4 Avant?! If so, I will go up that more and claim it in the name of TexMexistan* and drive that sucker home.

*that country that gets formed where I secede over not being able to buy the RS4 Avant

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/10/2013 at 02:25

I actually don't recall seeing anyone with truck nuts. But I was within an hour of Portland most of the time so it was mostly crunchy granola people with Foresters.

Not an RS4 Avant. When you secede and create TexMexistan can I apply for citizenship? Also can we somehow find a way to claim the Baja peninsula and COTA?

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/10/2013 at 02:35

Yes. I'm taking Harris Hill, too. Actually, I'm pretty sure their couch is the capital.

No RS4 Avant? Hmm. Well, it's not Jeff Zwart's Pikes Peak car, is it? I don't hear enough BOV goodness, but whatever. HHHHNNNNGGGGG. I'll be in my bunk.

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/10/2013 at 02:40

I was wondering how long it would take for you to make a Porsche-based inquiry. It isn't Zwart's car, but it is now my goal to get a ride in it before you do. Because dibs.

Drewp317 > Dusty Ventures
11/10/2013 at 10:38

lauchlin o'sullivan used to drive for mitsubishi, could it be him?

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/10/2013 at 13:45

NEIN!

Was it a Lancia, then?

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/10/2013 at 15:55

Not a Lancia

Jack > Dusty Ventures
11/10/2013 at 16:59

Yaris?

Dusty Ventures > Jack
11/10/2013 at 17:33

I wish the Yaris was this fast

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/10/2013 at 21:50

Was it a Baja truck?

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/10/2013 at 22:09

Nope. Too low and too nimble

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/11/2013 at 00:24

Ohmygosh. Rally Fighter?

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/11/2013 at 00:41

No. Like the desert truck that would be much higher and less nimble than what I was in. Plus that V8 sound

...you'd think a car with the name "Rally Fighter" would have run a rally by now.

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/11/2013 at 01:07

Srsly.

...

New Beetle?

PLEASE PLEASE BE THE RALLYBEETLE!

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/11/2013 at 01:11

Kinja'd!!!

You mean this crazy bastard? No. I wish he was still competing though.

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/11/2013 at 01:38

Hey, that's the PO of the original 944alump you're talking about there...all right, that qualifies as crazy.

...

I'm going to guess it's a Volvo.

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/11/2013 at 01:40

Hahahahahaha.

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/11/2013 at 01:54

Not a Volvo, though there is a 500+ horse rally 240 lurking around that part of the country

...did Kinja eat the rallybeetle pic?

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/11/2013 at 02:14

Yes. Bad Kinja. REPOST!

It doesn't sounds like an Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight, but it should be one.

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/11/2013 at 02:53

For a while there I thought you'd foiled my theory that every car ever built has at some point been rallied by someone somewhere. But success! I found a 1954 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight rally car!

Kinja'd!!!

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/11/2013 at 12:43

And this is why La Carrera Panamericana = epic win.

Feh. I'm out of interesting ideas. Is it really a dang Subaru? Because bringing a Subaru to a rally event is pretty much like inviting the Engineering/Comp Sci dorm to the SausageFest.

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/11/2013 at 13:34

Quitter.

It's really not a Subaru. Also here's the inside skinny on why everyone races Subarus: 1) Subaru still pays contingency monies, 2) the spectator parking lot is full of spare parts and the fanboys are always excited to give up a caliper or a transmission to the cause, and 3) the one good Mitsubishi engine builder in the US took his ball and went home. Ever since then the Mitsu field has been having reliability issues.

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/11/2013 at 15:59

Yeah, yeah. Same reason why every track in existence has been struck with the Miata plague: awesome manufacturer support.

Pontiac, then? Smells like my old Grand Am.

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/11/2013 at 16:03

Stop sniffing your computer.

Not a Pontiac.

I'm enjoying your determination to figure this out.

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/11/2013 at 18:01

Crap, I knew that computer smelled funny.

This a Saab? If it's not a Volvo, it's gotta be a Saab. Gott dang Scandinavians and their homerismism up there.

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/11/2013 at 18:17

The Scandinavians aren't flicking this one

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/11/2013 at 21:18

Ferd F-Teenthousand?

...

Because I have 42 balls. Of steel.

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/11/2013 at 21:22

42 is the answer, but not this time

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/11/2013 at 21:29

EHMAHGERD LUCY BLOCK'S UNICORN ROBOT DINOSAUR CAR?!

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/11/2013 at 21:33

Bacon would have squealed weeks ago

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/11/2013 at 21:36

Speaking of Bacon, is this car powered by it? Like, say, a certain sweet tube frame Mazda6 that's now been jacked up like a monster truck?

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/11/2013 at 21:39

Well technically Bacon adds 40 horsepower to any car he's in, so they're all at least partially powered by Bacon. But no. This particular rally car isn't a Mazda6 and most definitely isn't jacked up. If anything it's lower than most.

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
11/11/2013 at 22:07

Is it powered by my BALLS of STEEL?!

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
11/11/2013 at 22:10

It might be...

But no, probably not.

Dusty Ventures > Drewp317
11/13/2013 at 05:56

Nope, not Lauchlin

Fred (FreddsterExprs) > Dusty Ventures
11/18/2013 at 06:49

God I love rally racing. Rally drivers have awesome skills.