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Old 03-30-2010 | 05:23 PM
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How A $500 Craigslist Car Beat $400K Rally Racers

I love **** like this!! ****ing win of the month






Professional motorsport is a cold, hard place. If you want to run with the big dogs, you can't just build a car in your mom's garage and show up, right? Wrong. One guy did just that. Here's his amazing story.
This is the multifaceted tale of Bill Caswell, a man who bought a crapcan off Craigslist to run against $400,000-plus rally cars in a World Rally Championship race. It is a tale of a guy who had a welder, a bunch of credit cards, and a lot of free time but no real backing or funds. It is a story of a dude who taught himself how to build an FIA-legal roll cage because he wanted to spend the fabrication fee on race tires instead. It's the story of a gearhead who drove a rustbucket to a third-place finish in an FIA-sanctioned event............
http://jalopnik.com/5497042/how-a-50...k-rally-racers
Old 03-30-2010 | 06:21 PM
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Read this story on another forum, freakin great
Old 03-31-2010 | 09:56 AM
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thats is simply crazy. but kinda shows you dont need the best car in the world to win.
Old 03-31-2010 | 02:05 PM
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Yeah, read about this from my buddy Halston who is an E30 fanatic. I love stories like this, but that is definitely not something the average-Joe-Driver can do on his own. That takes some serious driver skill to be able to keep up and place like he did. Simply and utterly amazing!
Old 04-01-2010 | 04:10 PM
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Another Cindrella story come true! I like!
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