>
> Does anyone know of a company that will sell just _one_ piece
> of a carpet set to me? Lots of sets out there, but I've only
> got one munged piece.
I had the same problem when I needed to re-carpet my Scimitar, I could
not find anybnody who made a carpet set for the car. So I removed the
old carpets and had a good auto interior specialist make up a new set
of carpets, using the old ones as the patterns. It turned out pretty
good and was cheaper than I thought. Since then I have found a company
in England which makes the carpet set in the original material (Wilton ?),
which cost $200 for the 20 odd pieces of carpet needed.
Try taking your 1 piece of carpet to a interior specialist and see what
they can do.
>>It maybe that the Midget will get promoted (relagated ?) to the track in
>>the forcoming future. I just bought a Pro-Rally car, with which I hope
>>to do Pro-Rally next year.
Lawrence asks :
> Don't leave us hanging, what kind of car did you buy?
I know this realy is not the right place to debate this, but I was
asked !!!!!
The Pro-rally car that I bought is a 1980 Subaru 4WD, which was driven to
7th place overall in the NEDIV Subaru Pro-Rally Championship. At Roundtop, PA
this year, it came 4th out of a field of 35 (?). I have been following the
exploits of this car for about 18 months and it has never DNF'f a rally.
I bought this specific car for the following reasons :
1- It was relatively competitive (if a bit underpowered)
2- It is SCCA legal, so I would not have to worry about getting it through
tech
3- It is underpoewered (I do not want to overwhelm myself with power in
my first year in pro-rallying, I want to concentrate on driving technique
4- It is reliable
5- It is 4WD
6- It is simply engineered, no computers, strange electrics etc (very much like
my British cars.
7- Price was right
I have not taken a good look at it yet, but it needs just a little tidying
before my first event on Jan 18 1992.
- a small hole in the floor needs welding
- new seat belts ned to be installed (I do not know the history on the ones
that are fitted)
- small amount of electrical work
- new clutch cable needs to be fitted
- brakes needs replacing and bled
- rally computer needs to be fitted
All in all, this is probably a week-ends work, and I should be set
> Also, I'm considering participating in some of TSD ralley here next
> summer as a complete novice. Do you have any recommendations,
> hints, or archives on the subject that you could pass on?
TSD rallying and pro rallying and 2 completey different types of sport.
If you want to do TSD rallies, you can use almost any car and the only
piece of equipement id a good, accurate clock, I have a ALFA which measure
time in hundreds of a minute (easier to do calculations), and has several
hold features.
The easiest way to get into TSD ralying is to attend a couple of events,
talk to people, and slowly build up experience.
Gerr
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