To everyone who said Jalopnik should have me on an episode of Car Vs America

"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures) 01/04/2018 at 14:00 • Filed to: you'll be sorry, Dusty's Rally Life

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Hasn’t anyone ever told you to be careful what you wish for?

I’ve been sitting on this one !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! The guys invited me out to Portland (Oregon, not Maine) back in October to be on the season finale episode and teach them how to co-drive. We chatted pace notes while cooking hot dogs on a campfire (side note: Ballaban shouldn’t be allowed near fire), hung out at Nameless Performance (and fucked around a bit with Chris Forsberg’s Formula Drift car), and on the final day Raph and Mike co-drove for each other on a short forest stage. I’m pretty sure they liked it.

Drone

Toyota 86 meets Toyota 86

Shooting the episode was cool. While there was a rough schedule for each day, there was no script, they’d just turn the cameras on and let things go wherever they went (unless things were running long of course). I feel bad for the editors who have to wade through all that footage of rambling and shenanigans to make a 30 minute TV episode.

After the shoots were done for the day Raph, Mike, and I got to take my rental FRS and do some exploring as well. Pretty sure Mike wants to move to Portland now.

Went to PIR, turns out there was an enduro race on

Followed the Columbia River up to Bridge of the Gods

Raph is rather fond of this giant film camera

Stop getting in my pictures, Raph

Can’t go to Portland and not get a Voodoo Donut

The episode airs next Wednesday (the 10th), as the season 1 finale. Unfortunately I don’t have Fusion and I haven’t found anyone who does, so I’ll have to wait until the episodes are all online before I can watch.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Dusty Ventures 01/04/2018 at 14:06

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Very cool! Looking forward to it! :D

HammerheadFistpunch > Dusty Ventures 01/04/2018 at 14:10

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neat! did you teach them to carry a tune as well?

Sir Halffast > Dusty Ventures 01/04/2018 at 14:31

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But did you pump your own gas?

TheRevanchist > Sir Halffast 01/04/2018 at 14:36

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smobgirl > Dusty Ventures 01/04/2018 at 14:53

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Oh this is awesome! Let us know when it’s streaming because I really want to see!

Dusty Ventures > HammerheadFistpunch 01/04/2018 at 15:02

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Can’t teach them things I clearly don’t know how to do myself

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Dusty Ventures 01/04/2018 at 15:40

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I have Fusion on Sling TV. They do 7 day free trials. So you should be able to start one on the 8th or so to watch it then cancel after if you don’t want to keep Sling. I’ve had it since this summer and been pretty dang happy with it for the price and ability to watch on phone when I’m on the road and in the Roku app at home.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Dusty Ventures 01/04/2018 at 16:05

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Neat!

Dusty Ventures > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 01/04/2018 at 16:08

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Great idea! I’ll look into that

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures 01/04/2018 at 17:06

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Chicken update?

Jalopnik Texas’ one contribution to this show really hopes she made the final edit.

sdwarf36 > Dusty Ventures 01/04/2018 at 19:32

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Good they let you play along. Glad I knew you before in case it goes to your head. ;-) Hey! Check + see if the go-kart track near you has the channel. Mini viewing party?

Dusty Ventures > sdwarf36 01/04/2018 at 21:53

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I wonder if I get an IMDB page now...