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How a $500 car got into the WRC

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prontocuts.com
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http://jalopnik.com/5497042/how-a-500-craigslist-car-beat-400k-rally-racers


awesome
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pomme-de-terre
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i am so glad i search barred before i was going to post this.

its fucking crazy though. that guy is such a boss.
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Ski_The_East10
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jalopnik is the holy grail for car enthusiasts
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.AR6rider.
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I just read all of that and that guy is awesome.  I love how he just hops out of his car, blasts music, and fixes everything himself after each stage.

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Big_Spence
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wow.
that's probably the best article i've read in a long ass time.
what an epic story.
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-Dan
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Craziness.
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rigzz
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[redacted] crazy story. 

He is a true hero, and should be remembered for years to come! haha!

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treebeard
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pretty cool.
i know nothing about cars or rally events or anything like that.
but still, that's pretty cool.
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factory81
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why does ski the east have eheath's icon?
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Ski_The_East10
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^cry about it
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kind of a big foul here.... but your the one who has to deal with it
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adamlukowski
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http://http://jalopnik.com/5497042/how-a-500-craigslist-car-beat-400k-rally-racers
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adamlukowski
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http://jalopnik.com/5497042/how-a-500-craigslist-car-beat-400k-rally-racers
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Bloc_chain
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well I know what I'm doing this summer
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Big_Spence
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i think you need a license for that thomas.
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Scolson
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Cool article, but it makes it sound like he is beating WRC cars, which.. he isn't.
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theabortionator
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I love it
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Thenowhereman42
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Learning to build a roll cage isn't really that hard. A couple years ago when I was an autoshop head we used to have the fabrication guys from the welding classes make them for people's shitty little civics and stuff lol.
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Dan.
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but he is beating out brand new evos and other such cars.
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Bloc_chain
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i have a permit, so i just need someone 21 or older as my wing man
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Big_Spence
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i'll get a fake i.d.
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connoroh
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he beat 2 of em.
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MAPLE_SYRUP
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Thats legit.

this pic describes it all

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Scolson
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He wasn't even competing against them, he was racing in the Rally America event.  If he did manage to beat any WRC drivers they either had major problems or crashed.  The times are somewhere in this thread http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4814862&page=1 But he ends up getting 4th in his class, after time penalties.

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