Well, isn't that cute

"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee) 09/22/2017 at 12:24 • Filed to: None

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Holland hosts an annual “Tulip Rally”! Six days, 2,500km across Europe, only cars built before 1972 can enter. It’s been running since 1949.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/22/2017 at 12:34

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Could you enter new cars until ‘73?

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 09/22/2017 at 12:36

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I guess?

Specifically, it has to have a build date before 1/1/1972.

CaptDale - is secretly British > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/22/2017 at 12:46

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I wanna go! This is why I need to finish my Sprite or get a 100-6 BN6

CaptDale - is secretly British > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/22/2017 at 12:54

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paging ImmoralMinority . Wanna go some time after I am able to get a 100-6? Maybe they allow continuation models and you could bring the Sunchaser to Europe. Website shows no participants that are over 1971.... Shit

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > CaptDale - is secretly British 09/22/2017 at 12:56

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Do eeeeeet!

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > CaptDale - is secretly British 09/22/2017 at 12:59

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The registration rules make no mention of continuations. It’s pretty strict, they go by build date rather than model year. If you want to enter a car that was first registered after the cutoff you have to show papers proving it was manufactured before 1972.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 09/22/2017 at 13:02

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Looking at the list of winners and their cars on wikipedia it appears to have been run as some kind of stage rally until 1992. Lots of the best rally cars of the day won the event before 1992 and this archived article mentions it along with Rally Monte Carlo and the Tour de Course (it also appears that it used some strange method of calculating results where results for each stage was determined based on how you performed relative to the classes around you instead of raw time). It appears to have been known for long transit distances compared to stage distance. It became a historic rally for 1992.

CaptDale - is secretly British > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/22/2017 at 13:03

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yeah looking through the entrant it didn’t show any continuation models.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > CaptDale - is secretly British 09/22/2017 at 13:05

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There’s a link somewhere on the site to download an English pdf of the rule & regs

CaptDale - is secretly British > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/22/2017 at 13:08

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Hmmm, I couldn’t find it, but that is ok. I could buy my 100-6 and someone else could drive my ‘69 Sprite

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > CaptDale - is secretly British 09/22/2017 at 13:11

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http://www.tulpenrallye.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Final-regulations-English-2017-04-02-2017.pdf

CaptDale - is secretly British > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/22/2017 at 13:20

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Looks like no continuation models. Sounds like a fun Rallye though

Also thanks for the link

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/22/2017 at 13:46

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hey... i know this street... was there just a few weeks ago for my weekend away from the interwebs... spent 3 days wandering along the beach and getting drunk (and for bonus a jazz festival was happening during the days and the nights i got an international fireworks competition)

also... thats the spot where kid me met all the cars from the tulip rally bout 25 years ago..... forgot the name of the rally.. will never forget the cars.