Rally affordability

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[OMAC]

I'm pretty sure that most or all of us, especially us younger members have made a lot of sacrifices to be able to compete in any motorsport discipline.  Rally.  Autox.  They all cost money and consume a fair amount of time.  Save some money, build a simple car and while your building it, play around in a few grassroots motorsports and make sure that it is for you.  It takes real commitment to do it on a lower income but it can be done.  I'll be running competitively in 4 disciplines including rally in 2010 and the sacrifices that I'll make in my everyday life will be many, but if it is what you love then, it is worth it. 

[Vicar]

I'm pretty sure that most or all of us, especially us younger members have made a lot of sacrifices to be able to compete in any motorsport discipline.  Rally.  Autox.  They all cost money and consume a fair amount of time.  Save some money, build a simple car and while your building it, play around in a few grassroots motorsports and make sure that it is for you.  It takes real commitment to do it on a lower income but it can be done.  I'll be running competitively in 4 disciplines including rally in 2010 and the sacrifices that I'll make in my everyday life will be many, but if it is what you love then, it is worth it. 

+1
perfectly said

[Murray Peterson]

I agree with everything except the "younger member" part.  Motor sports are expensive, and few of us are millionaires.  In my case, I admit to running a high budget "act" for the last few seasons, but I have had to make sacrifices too.  In my case, I was planning on retirement by now, but I can no longer afford to quit my job.  Sucks, but I love the sport too much to quit racing.

[Power Tryp]

All I want to do for now, is to find a G2 car, and just have some fun with it.

Im not interested in competing for any big prize just yet, as Im sure I havent got the talent(or dont know I have it yet)
I've looked extensively through the Specialstage.com classifieds, but i've found there are a lot of cheaper cars out there for a guy like me, but they're all in the states, and I'm not really equipped for the trip down there to go get one.

Are there any lower priced ($0-$8000 range,)rally cars up for sale in alberta/B.C.? I know I wont get a lot for that amount, but I have to start somewhere.

From what I know it only costs about a grand to ship a car from the states. Haven't you had some experiance with that Johnny? Also I could ask a couple people I know that have extensive knowledge in that area to put you in the right direction.

[Vicar]

From what I know it only costs about a grand to ship a car from the states. Haven't you had some experiance with that Johnny? Also I could ask a couple people I know that have extensive knowledge in that area to put you in the right direction.

shipping then gst and duty.  then repairs on a beat down car that you haven't looked at in the states.

just to play devils advocate, but yeah, shipping is about 1k.... minus exchange....

ok, I'll stop.

wait, how much to ship all the spare parts too?

[ktibi79]

I'm pretty sure that most or all of us, especially us younger members have made a lot of sacrifices to be able to compete in any motorsport discipline.  Rally.  Autox.  They all cost money and consume a fair amount of time.  Save some money, build a simple car and while your building it, play around in a few grassroots motorsports and make sure that it is for you.  It takes real commitment to do it on a lower income but it can be done.  I'll be running competitively in 4 disciplines including rally in 2010 and the sacrifices that I'll make in my everyday life will be many, but if it is what you love then, it is worth it. 

Very well said

[OMAC]

I agree with everything except the "younger member" part.  Motor sports are expensive, and few of us are millionaires.  In my case, I admit to running a high budget "act" for the last few seasons, but I have had to make sacrifices too.  In my case, I was planning on retirement by now, but I can no longer afford to quit my job.  Sucks, but I love the sport too much to quit racing.

[Spence]

Thanks for all the advice everyone. I know now, what I need to do to get the ball rolling. And hopefully, you'll see me in a rally car by kananaskis rally this year!

[Vicar]

awesome, I hope so!

[tmachnik]

I did more rallying back in 2002-2005 than I've done in the past four years.  I was making $18.75/hr back when I started too.  And I lived in an appartment with my GF.  I seriously worked hard to make rally happen for me.  I built my car for minimal $$.  My girlfreind (at the time) had enough of her beat up old GTI, so she bought a slightly less beat up old Jetta and I got the GTI for a smile  .  I built the roll cage myself, swaped in the 16V motor and trans from my old 77 rabbit that was too rusty to stay on the road, painted the car myself, added the safety gear, and went rallying.  I had the car ready to rally for less than $2000 cash outlay, granted I got the car for next to nothing and already had a good motor and transmission for it.  At the time stock seats were allowed, so I ran with those for the first season.  I am a very mechanically inclined person, had some welding exprience, and access to a pipeline shop with welding equipment, heated service bays, and after hours access.  My job afforded me flexibility to research and aquire parts and supplies during the day, as well as access to industrial materials and services.  Many days I would finish work at 4:30, grab a bite to eat, come back a 5:00, push the car into the shop and work on it until 2am, go home for a few hours sleep, and be back at work for 8am.  I even drove to Calgary on a saturday for Jorge's rally school, drove back to Edmonton that evening, painted the car until 4am, then drove straight back to Calgary for day 2 of the rally school.  I'm not kidding when I say I worked my F-ing ass off to get into rally.  My first two events, I loaded the rally car with gear and drove it to and from the events.  After that I borrowed a truck and trailer a few times, then acquired a $500 beater truck and rented trailers for a few years.  Over the years I've gradually upgraded the car, now it's a pretty mean G2 machine proven to win regionals, but my skills are rusty from my absence from the sport.  I could go on an on...
Long story short, if you really want to rally, there's nothing stopping you but the limitations you place on yourself.