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Well well well. Didn't think this deal would come around. I have always had a long term plan to pick up a good starter rally car for around $5-6k, something in G2 or G5 (2WD) or Open Light (NA AWD) as those are the classes I would be limited to as a novice driver. However last week I came across a CL ad almost by chance, just happened to search for "subaru" in the Nashville CL in hopes of finding a cheap Impreza to use as a daily driver so I could unload the WRX and the Audi I have, and lo and behold, a 1994 Subaru Legacy Turbo Rally Car is for sale for $2800. Has a logbooked cage, been raced for several years between 2004 and 2006. It had passed hands several times over the last few years, each time going to someone who had a less and less interest for rallying. After talking with the guy who had the car for a while, and seeing pictures, I put down a $200 deposit on it to hold the car until I could drive out to nashville to see it. We settled on a price of $1800 + some of my WRX brake stuff. RyanR helped me out and drove me out to the Nashville area to pick up the car and begin a longgg journey home.
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The car is not comfortable. The seat is rather narrow and close to the wheel. The last guy to race this must have been a midget! There was a 3" wooden extension on the clutch pedal! The rally tires screw/whine/howl at highway speeds, no AC, no radio, and a nearly 300 mile journey back home. Eventually it made its way back to Jonesboro, and found a spot next to the WRX.
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The next day me and Ryan started the process of cleaning out the car and fixing a lot of small nagging issues. Things such as the clutch extension, cleaning the headlamps, fixing a window that wouldn't go up or down, cleaning the dash, pulling bulbs out of the cluster for lights that are just annoying (seatbelt, ABS, and airbag). Ryan went out of his way to get my old lightbar and modify it to fit the new car. Looks proper again with the lights.
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This weekend I will be taking the practically brand new rally tires that came with the car as spares, and mounting them to a set of white Enkei gravel wheels I have laying around. Some of the next steps in the project include getting the car to Izzy's Custom Cages for him to take a close look at the cage, and see if we can improve on it, since it is a rather old cage. I will need to get another seat and a set of harnesses for the co-driver (to be Mr. Ron Erickson), annnnnd I will need to find an NA engine to put in place of the 2.2T since I want to run this car in the Open Light class of Rally America.
First race I am shooting for is the new Perryville Rally in Perryville, MO in late October, and then of course will try to race the first rally I ever went to, the infamous 100 Acre Wood in late February.
This should be fun.
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