Okay, so our Garage Rescue Miata might not be the weirdest car to attend an autocross, but what is the oddest vehicle you have ever seen show up?
Bonus points if it's the car you ran.
Okay, so our Garage Rescue Miata might not be the weirdest car to attend an autocross, but what is the oddest vehicle you have ever seen show up?
Bonus points if it's the car you ran.
60's VW bus with a SBC in the backseat.....Not worthy of Emod, but that was the only class it could run..(Grin)
My friend Josh's Grand Cherokee 5.9L Limited. He had it lowered, way stiffer springs, 200tw tires, and the front driveshaft disconnected so that it was CAM legal. It met height-by-width and he got a letter of approval from the SCCA, but pretty much every tech inspector and safety steward hassled him about it, leading to it's retirement after just a year.
He followed that up with a Ram S/ST the next year, but it was the same issue with tech inspectors and safety stewards not being thrilled about it, and he also kept annihilating cab mount bushings (turns out they aren't meant for this kind of abuse). He has since moved on to a $400 P71.
(not me)
Second place is probably an sufficiently lowered canam x3, complete with hoosiers.
I've brought some weird ones
I once ran a 1986 Jetta diesel at a rainy event in Toledo. This was the 52hp version, none of that fancy TDi stuff. I think I finished 2nd in D or E stock out 7 cars. Most runs I had 3 passengers.
Weirdest I've run:
Weirdest I've seen:
"Run what you got"
After course cleanup, the firefighters that had stopped to watch the last runs of the day hustled their firetruck around the course by following the tire tracks. It was an extremely impressive showing that earned them a standing ovation from all awaiting the awards ceremony.
My Yugo (aka "The Yugo from Hell) was a contender.
The car could do a 360* spin inside an autocross gate without touching a cone! (Ask me how I know!)
Run what ya got...4 door Plymouth Acclaim...mine
A buddy's Honda 600
I ran the autocross course at the $20XX Challenge with my son on a single speed tandem bicycle.
I also ran the same bike on the 1/4 mile drag strip with Alan McCrispin riding shotgun.
SpeedyCop in a Cessna.
I mean, I was at challenge in 2019 when wreck racing ran a couch ...... And I have most of the run on video somewhere.
This guy is fairly regular at our events:
What in god's name is that in the main photo background? I'm in love...
In reply to GregAmy :
I believe it's the mobile quarantine bus for the Apollo astronauts.
[edit] I stand corrected.
More about the mobile lounges.
One time a friend and I towed my turbo Miata down to the autox using his 2nd gen (supercharged) F-150 lightning and trailer. Then we both co-drove both vehicles.
The Lightning certainly wasn't the car to beat in F Stock, but it was total hooligan fun. Left giant smoke trails through the sweeper. :)
One of my friends occasionally comes out with his 69 Cougar. I had the pleasure of going for a run in that thing. It is both amazing and terrifying. I loved it!
David S. Wallens said:More about the mobile lounges.
Haha, I was going to say, that looks like its related to the Dulles airport terminal-terminal shuttle busses. What doesn't come across immediately in that photo/article is how far they travel up and down.
I've autocrossed and tracked my BMW E34. It's not unusual to see a BMW on the track, but my car being a 5 series always confused people. And then I'd run halfway decent times with it and would actually pass people despite having only 189hp.
I saw an ur-Quattro once.
Said Javelin at a different event where it wasn't terrible. Not good, but not terrible.
By this point I had swapped in a Ford 8.8 rear axle with 3.55 LSD, quick-ratio steering box, front sway bar, front disc brakes, and KYB gas shocks along with 200TW tires on 17x9/10.5 wheels.
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