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"-Amateur" (amateur)
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Update on the 21 yr old girl that is my race car.
My 1995 Beretta is okay sometimes while other times she screams for attention because she’s an old car.
The Beretta got a new lease on life with a low mileage engine swap. Gave her a wal-mart rustoleum rattle can special to make her all one color until I can afford a real paint job. Surprisingly, it has held up really good considering there is zero clearcoat protecting my $30 paint investment.
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She destroyed some ground wires, killed a coolant temp sensor, has ABS issues, and suffers from heatsoak with the starter/cables that causes her not to start up at temp.
All in all, I took her autocrossing for the first time this year with all these issues.
Her GM brethren Victoria at least AutoX onced this year so not to be outdone, Abigail needed her time to shine.
So off we went to Milwaukee Brewers Stadium in Miller Park for some raceday fun.
It was raining the first half with the Limited Slip Diff working it’s magic to give me the traction I needed to keep her steady.
Here’s inside view of my second !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
Also it dubbed as a bragging rights match with my brother’s Celica. Spoiler alert, Abigail came out on top, nom nom nom.
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Also bugs love me car:
I still have to install the Beretta Z26 bodykit Z04 sideskirts, an additional internal rear sway bar and fix the odds and ends plaguing her but it’s cool.I’ve already had her for 6 and a half years, I have nothing but time.
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Abigails 1st AutoX back in 2012
To Now
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For Sweden
> -Amateur
10/06/2016 at 14:06 |
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She racecars are faster than he racecars
Fact
itschrome
> -Amateur
10/06/2016 at 14:19 |
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It warms my icey heart to see some one not only keeping a Beretta but also taking it out for some fun. You are doing gods work. Keep it up!
Though maybe ditch the too close to ford blue for some Chevy yellow??
RallyWrench
> -Amateur
10/06/2016 at 14:21 |
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This makes me so happy, I really like this car. That color is perfect.
fourvalleys
> -Amateur
10/06/2016 at 14:22 |
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YES! I was telling my friends last week how excited I was to see this on the registration list. Always glad to see the things you wouldn’t expect out there.
SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> For Sweden
10/06/2016 at 14:24 |
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Want to tell that to Charlie?
Tristan
> -Amateur
10/06/2016 at 14:29 |
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I love me some Beretta! Keep up the good work! Though I’ve never owned one, I’ve road tripped one and done a lot of repairs work on another. Every time I see one, I smile.
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> itschrome
10/06/2016 at 14:34 |
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I’m right there with you. It’s temp paint to holdover until I get it professionally done in either OEM medium adriatic blue or a pearl white. I decided to make it loud in the meantime lol.
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> RallyWrench
10/06/2016 at 14:38 |
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Thanks! I never know what’s going to happen with this car or where we end up but that’s the fun of it, it’s the journey!
Arrivederci
> -Amateur
10/06/2016 at 14:45 |
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Awesome! One question though - the class on the side of your car. “T”? I’ve never seen/heard of that one before. What it is?
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> fourvalleys
10/06/2016 at 14:45 |
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I know what you mean! I think the fun of it is that it’s a car that you don’t really see on the road anymore. Nobody really thinks twice about keeping these cars going because there is sooo much better out there but I like that about it. It’s got character.
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> Tristan
10/06/2016 at 14:48 |
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I love how simple these cars are to work on whether it’s the I4 or the V6. My little 2.2 has the refinement of a tractor engine but my god is it easy to fix any issue it has lol.
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> Arrivederci
10/06/2016 at 14:51 |
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Normally I have my car classed as Street Touring FWD but ever since I put in a Limited Slip, I have my car classified as D Street Prepared. They bunched me in ‘T’ for tires limited class (meaning I’m running street tires) so I’d have people to compete against class wise so I wouldn’t be myself since there were no other DSPs that day.
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For Sweden
> SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
10/06/2016 at 15:19 |
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Charlie, she racecars are faster than he racecars
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fourvalleys
> -Amateur
10/06/2016 at 15:32 |
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Yes! Keep bringing it out!
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itschrome
> -Amateur
10/06/2016 at 15:34 |
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Haha ok faor enough. Cant wait to see this progress.
SkyNet
> -Amateur
10/06/2016 at 15:54 |
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I never thought I’d say this about a Beretta, but I sort of have a crush on your car.
Is it possible that they have aged that well or I am just suffering from late afternoon delusions?
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> SkyNet
10/06/2016 at 18:39 |
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Why not both! Personally, I think the design held up pretty good considering it originally dates back to 1988 (almost 30 yrs). I think I like the fact that GM did all kinds of weird experiments with this car lol:
