One trouble when you leave your beater at your day 4 hotel: you still have to get home from New Orleans. Solution? Buy another team’s car! Team #33, appropriately named Rumspringa, had planned all along to fly home to Pennsylvania. Their 1995 Subaru Impreza coupe’s owner, Rachel, offered the car up for $50. I offered $100 just on principle, and we drove it home without incident on Sunday after a relaxing day and a half in New Orleans with good friends of mine who live there.
The car, named CJ (Cesar Junior!), gets 32 mpg and has no exhaust system after the catalytic convertor, so it’s quite loud. Upon further inspection, it looks like the exhaust is all there, it’s just been disconnected at the cat. Not sure if that’s from general vibration or if it was intention, but I’ll probably get that fixed before selling it. It’s tempting to keep it, but I don’t really need a car with no A/C… Except maybe to sell to a future, foreign BABE Rally team in need.
Or I could rallycross it…
As for next year, I might be in the middle of a five-week internship as the final step in my Motorcycle Service Technology degree. But something tells me I’ll be awfully tempted to jump into the BABE Rally fray again, one way or another. It’s just stupid, addictive fun for car nerd/greasemonkey weirdos.
Tags: babe rally 2010, rumspringa, subaru impreza
June 14, 2010 at 10:42 pm |
Aside from the disconnected exhaust, what kind of shape is it in? That’s not a bad car..
June 14, 2010 at 10:47 pm |
At 202,000 miles, the gearshift is a bit sloppy and the clutch take-up point is pretty high. One or two wheels could use balancing if you drive over 70 mph. The platform covering the spare wheel has crumbled. One rear seatbelt was cut to remove a passenger who got stuck back there. And the paint is… well, if you like armadillos, bananas, and Pennsylvania, there’s nothing at all wrong with the paint. But really there’s just not much wrong with it. Single owner, daily driver, for 12 years. Said she never had to add oil between oil changes.