Alejandro: “And we have our own pits. Such luxury, eh?”
Ana: “Well, everyone taking part in this has their own, we’re no exception.”
Alejandro: “Did you check the other pits? What are we up against?”
Ana: “Well, there’s a Kansai G, seems to be the basic FWD one. Guy has put some mods on the powerplant though, so we should watch out. There’s a couple cars from the 80s, haven’t seen if they have any mods so we better keep an eye on them as well. Ah, the lads from the Truckling are here! Went and said hello to them, they brought a vary basic 80s econobox. Seeing what the rest have brought I’d say we’re golden.”
Alejandro: “Careful there, who knows if we’ll be able to complete this.”
Ana: “True. Let’s see how it all goes.”
(@Madrias if you want to write any cross rp it’s on you now )
They’re a team of four dudes. They are Seasoned veterans of the Lemons Endurance series. They also like to play pretend. This year, they’re taking their brand of crazy to Europe for the 24 Hour Clunker.
The Car: A JDM 1961 Sakura Empress 25x they found for sale on some shady back-market site. It was theirs for only like $500, give or take. It has all the added gaff of a Police car, with some Liberties. It also has no bonnet because their mechanic is lazy.
Liam “The Chief” O’Niel: American. The semi-lead of the operation, he is in his mid 30’s, has a career as a truck driver. He’s the Chief of the Lemons Police.
Pete “The Sarge” Owens: American. The other Semi-lead, he’s in his late 20’s, and works for a Kimura dealership as a salesman. He’s the Enforcer of the Force.
Kevin “The Rookie” Jackson: British. The Oldest member of the team, in his late 40’s, he’s a Software developer, and part-time mechanic. He’s irritable.
Charlie “Wheels” Newgarten: American. The Wheelchair bound mechanic of Lemon PD. He’s in his early 20s, and knows his way around a car. He’s actually an Amateur Drifter, but isn’t allowed to drive here.
GRANDPA’S AXE - Lookout, there’s an Oldman on the track!
It’s OLD, man! In 1957, back when lead wasn’t toxic, these things were considered sub-par, but still sporty enough to be seen in. Barry, Darren and Tim are 3 brothers from Melbourne whose grandfather used to own one of these cars. They were crossing some old farm on a pan-European holiday (snooping in places they had no right to) and they saw this under a tarp. When they asked the owner, he had no idea how long it had been there and sold it to them cheap.
They got it to start and managed to drive it here without being pulled over by the police even once. Let’s see if their luck holds.
One about Ferrain brand.
That brand aren’t exporting cars to other countries because cars that they are rare , cheap and they are special only possible to buy in poland.(Like PUBG on Xbox or Forza 5 on xbox or other examples)
It’s almost like FSO or Fiat.
And that was the twist the story took too, the cars never arrived to Sweden, just some doomed company that had their unrealistic fantasies of getting them in here.
(There has been such stories about FSOs, Trabants, Mexican beetles and many more cars, some people saw a market for them and had fantasies about importing them to Sweden but it ended in bankrupcy, and I had my thoughts that Ferrain was such a car company that you are describing. )
The Aussie team of Automotive journalists are at it again, propping up flagging magazine sales via write-ups of grassroots racing competitions!
Team Lead/Driver One: Pierre Mountbatten, 55 yrs old, Veteran journalist and owner of Mountain Pass.
Driver Two: Kyle Logan, 39 yrs old, head photographer and chief vehicle procurement officer!
Driver Three: Rebecca O’Shea, 27 yrs old, Head of Mountain Pass’s social media division and apprentice journalist.
Driver Four: Andrew Morgan, 43 yrs old, Senior journalist and resident drift expert!
The Car
A 2008 Bogliq Kitten Gi modified by Kyle to qualify for the Clunkers 24hr. Team Mountain Pass are fond of the diminutive l’il Bogliq and are looking to bring home the bacon via a smart vehicle choice and skilled, enthusiastic drivers. Don’t forget to stop by our pit area for a free magazine and a story about a Bogliq racecar, a mack truck and Pierre running for his life!!!
I allowed for a personalized starting number on the Bogliq, because I didn’t see any reasons why not. If anyone else want it changed I’m willing to do that too.
16k is a lot of budget to throw around, but this challenge actually asks for a proper shitbox… I might self impose a limit of about half as much as this and give it a crack haha.
EDIT: @Knugcab are we allowed to change the brakes???
I was thinking a bit like this, that for example an used BMW can be picked up for quite cheap IRL when old enough even though it was expensive as new… But of course, it allows for cars a fair bit over “clunker” level too. I will try to improve rules the next time I hold a competition, it was not really easy doing this for the first time.
A team of four brothers who have come together for their first foray into this sort of race. Each of them has had experience in motorsport before, but none are professionals.
Henry: At 38, he’s the oldest but also the least experienced, only just getting into autokhana and rally 3 years ago.
Dave: The most experienced of the four, he is 36 years old and has been competing in various forms of motorsport since he was racing go-karts at 14.
Will: 32 years old and primarily interested and experienced in drag-racing, he is the most successful of the brothers but also the least comfortable with endurance races.
Trev: At only 23, he is the ‘baby’ of the family, but is the most competent at and knowledgeable of the engineering and mechanics aspects of racing.
Each of the brothers has a collection of cars in various stages of repair and suitability for racing. Unfortunately none of them would compromise and “donate” a vehicle for this competition. Chipping in their money together, they fortuitously managed to obtain a rare 1977 AAAA - V200 GTX, although it was in very poor condition. What spare cash they had left over was used on repairs and freshening up the tired engine, bringing it back into spec. Flaking chrome was covered in black paint wherever it was found, and exhaust and suspension replaced with more sporting versions.
I think your budget is fine as it allows for freedom of design choices. My car cost just under 13K so I think maybe a restriction of car types based on age would be more appropriate.
e.g.:
New cars (2001 - 2008) restricted to supermini and small cars inc. appropriate engine and gearbox for that class
1980’s to 2000 cars to be sedans (2 or 4dr), hatches or wagons w/ appropriate engine and gearbox for era
older than 1980 has to be sedan or wagon only w/ appropriate engine and gearbox choice
Then state no supercars, no GT’s or sports cars and you’re golden! A ruleset that allows lots of varied entries but they’re all crap and/or boring!
My intention was to exclude cars that’d be collectible and thus, IRL, never cheap enough to run in a shitbox rally. My suggestion isn’t perfect but it would keep the field relatively honest!
A '92 Matteo Miglia Espresso Allegro, but actually the Performante edition, a more popular, but less common trim with the special forged 1.6L turbo engine and the LSD. Hardly the peak of comfortable urban commuting, but a rather chuckable and taut ride in the true tradition of 90s MM. With a base value of barely 8.5k, it fairly redefined cheap fun, and as such, they were frequently wrung thoroughly, which was exactly the intention.
In this case, put it in the hands of some motor idiots and give it the full lean Strop treatment (where the AFR doesn’t change but the turbo sure as hell does), and you have…
Team Flaming Fart Cannon reprise: Dr Strop’s Wild Ride
… it’s about as comfortable as taking a Fakir mat for a ride in a centrifuge. But it corners like it’s on rails and with the output of over 200bhp, and the weight being stripped from 900kg to 780kg, it goes like no car on the budget in the 90s ever had any business doing. This is what Kai wished his shitbox Toyota was capable of doing. Naturally in the name of “team bonding”, notorious Gryphon Gear boost nuts, Kai Kristensen, Sam Neil and Stroppy McHorseguy (in hotly debated order of driving skill), have booked out some of their time in-lieu during a lull in racing seasons, and decided to spend it doing… more racing. Except more casual. And possibly pre-gamed with excessive amounts of cheese. You have been warned.
One small question for the rules. As far as I udnerstood them, you could only remove a muffler compared to your base model. So what’s with the higher power output for some submissions?
My submission is just a less than 16k car in 1983 then simply with interior stripped.
This is actually a question I was hoping to ask. I just heard from somebody else that they’d had a car approved that had the tuning changed but no other components changed.
Frankly it may or may not be in the spirit of competition but it would be very easy to change the tuning of certain things within reason… what would be more concerning is if people threw lore faithfulness out the window and changed their original trim so that the race trim complied with the rules, should the actual restrictions mean that all you could do with the engine was take off a muffler. Which was what I actually did previously, since I made the race tuned engine first. But this does need clarification.
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