Which brings us nicely up to speed to here: the current status!
exokart for the gram until it gets too cold and we run out of cars n coffees of the season:
used the winch on the truck again, always comes in handy - randomly.
but I really need to take care of this:
even though it drives down the road straight, it doesn't make me super comfortable
I haven't touched the alignment yet and it drives straight down the road, an old broken rear hatch "glass" (polycarbonate) can be re-cycled into a front windshield.
I will take 1 year off racing or until I get to couped up I guess. I will fix it but I don't know if stage worthy is gonna happen. keep going back and forth and its not like this car didn't have a great run.
daily driver from 2006-2009, then proceeded to bomb down dirt roads, autocross, and rallycross for the next several years, sprinkled in with some ice racing and track days there are 19 entries in my log book, so 17 stage rallies and 2 test and tunes. Some friends say its berkeleyed and I shouldn't fix it, just re-shell it which is alot more work than it seems considering my floor needs
Time to move to another chassis? do a newer one? start on the rx3? I got nothing but time and no money now and I have very little time to work on the car with family life these days so unfortunately a lot of this is going to take a back seat. I would like to fix the car to a more presentable state and that can be done and I already have found a sunroofless donor and additional donors keeping popping up via friends but thats going to be some time.
Fundamentally I really don't know if I have "build another rally car" in me, I love this sport but its just becoming too much and it sucks because it finally feels like I figured it all out and I was ready to just enjoy and compete here and there a few moments out of the year.
I started this journey roughly 2012-2014 really and got on stage the first time in 2017. not accounting for prior rallyX and back road shennanigans