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rally-car

Bacon Motorsport gets ready for 100 Acre Wood

February 26, 2010

Yesterday we saw video of Ken Block prepping for this weekends 100 Acre Wood rally. The Monster folks aren’t the only team in the rally though! As we’ve mentioned before, old friend of The Garage, Peter Watt, is in the right seat of Bill Bacon’s Evo. The team spent yesterday going through tech inspection and [...]

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Pure Porsche Porn: GT3 Rally Cars!

December 19, 2009

Perhaps the best way to start your Saturday morning: Refill your coffee, select HD and full screen and crank up the speakers for 8:44 of the best ear candy around.
Who ever said Porsches were track day cars? These folks in Spain, Germany and Belgium flog their Porsches like they were mean to be flogged!
Thanks [...]

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Best sounding race car ever: Subaru Impreza 555

October 13, 2009

I’m bringing this argument back for just a second. Watch this video. This is what gets my blood pumping. The early nineties marked the dawn of what I’m going to call the “technology era” of rally. The Subaru Impreza was one of the top cars of the decade, due to its low center of gravity, [...]

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Welcome to The Garage: John Heintzman

May 11, 2009

Oh man! Am I ever glad my photography skills have improved over the past 15 years. Way back in the early Nineties, I spent a season as John Heintzman’s crew chief. That’s him up there in the blurry Suzuki at some rally circa 93. The following year, John took the role of team owner and [...]

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Video: When Irish rally drivers go bad

February 6, 2009

This in car footage might have one of the funniest driver/co-driver dialogues ever. As you might expect from a pair of Irishmen, the soundtrack is definitely NSFW.

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First Annual Willowdale Subaru Show

August 18, 2008

While our man on the West Coast, Gary Faules was cavorting at the Monterey Historics this weekend, here in Ontario The Garage was deep in car show land. We helped organize the first annual Subaru show at Willowdale Subaru along with the folks from the Toronto Subaru Club.
With the freaky weather we’ve been having in [...]

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More Group B Porn

December 9, 2006

Ever seen a Finnish rally car ace dance? Neither had I, but this next compilation somehow manages to fit in some tribal village action. There are a few clips that I haven’t seen before, but not all are actually Group B. The flick opens with a shot of a BMW M1, which I can’t recall [...]

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Kenzie’s Targa Mini

July 17, 2006

One our quest to find a BMW 1 Series, the boys and I headed over to BMW Canada of Sunday afternoon. We didn’t find a 1, but Jim Kenzie’s steed for Targa Newfoundland was sitting outside the shop door. This Cooper S is pretty typical for a tarmac rally car, with lots of John Cooper [...]

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Stroking my own ego

May 2, 2006

I’m on a road test today in a mildly modified 350Z, with the customer in the passenger seat when he says “so….what kind of racing do you do?” I was a bit taken aback and said I hadn’t raced in years, but had driven a performance rally car and solo 1. Why do you ask? [...]

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