The Wishbone Alley Gazette
July, 1996 Rainier Auto Sports Club
>Rally News
>RASC Friday Niter- June 14. Vince did a splendid job of putting together a
simple little rally, with just enough "stuff" to make it a "real" Friday
Niter. Kirk and Terry put in some long hours on it, too. Kirk had been up
since 3 am or so, and was really dragging by time awards were handed out.
But the carnage! When Rod Johnson did one a few years ago, the yellow
Subaru threw a timing belt and has sat in the garage ever since. This year,
Vince's little Honda rebelled and quit a mile from the finish. Kim Hawley's
Audi coasted to the bottom of the hill, but refused to run. This allowed some
"quality time" for father /daughter until a tow truck got out to May Valley
Rd. to rescue them.
When all was said and done, Leg 2 was thrown because of an ambiguous
speed change instruction. Scores attached.
Considering that the Sonic's were in a playoff game, 28 entrants is
some sort of recent record. The best news was the 8 novice entrants, who may
one day be rallymasters or at least CP workers (Well, I can hope...)
Greg Hightower is to be thanked for his help in checking out the course. He
wasn't able to participate, even though the rally went by his house. The RI
reading "wave at Hightower's..." had rallyists looking overhead when they
should have been looking for a house!
The Reno Divisional rally, run over the July 4 weekend, will see
quite a representation from the NW. Kirk Simons and Mike Jones have entered,
with their spouses' and Joel Wright for support. Janice and Amity are towing
the Celica, unless they can get someone else to drive and they can fly. Mark
Simons is going too.
John Nispel bundled up his checkpoint sign collection and sent it off with
the Damitio's to Denver. (John wanted to go to Pike's Peak, but a nagging
back problem may abort that trip.)
John Forespring, Joe Noyes, Diane Doran, and Ron Barker will be
helping on the organization side of the rally.
Rod Millen has a hot Toyota to take to Pikes Peak. Since top time
is held by a twin-engine Japanese Suzuki, we can all hope that Rod does well
and returns the record to stateside. (A Kiwi in a Toyota...?!)
Chuckanut's Blossomtime Daze attracted 9 cars, half from Seattle
area.
The Malaysian Far Eastern Championship rally got a write-up on the
Internets' Rally-L posting. The writer went out to spectate and reported that
despite a huge number of registered marshals, there were few in sight. It got
to the point that the last day's run was about to be aborted when the
rallyists "took over" and sent their crews out to officiate! To validate the
rally for points, they only needed one more section, and the rallyists were
determined to get their money's worth.
So the writer was hailed by a passing support rig, and asked if he
knew how to "marshal". He said he'd been to a few rallys, but.... "You'll do"
he was told, and the vehicle drove on.
From his vantage point, he viewed a very tight turn. The rally
cars had to stop, backup, and maneuver to get around the tight corner. Possom
Bourne did it another way. He came sailing into the corner too fast, stuck a
fender into the dirt bank, which spun the car. He ended up aimed the right
direction! Didn't lose any time.
>Roster- Anybody know the extent of the new 541 area code in
Oregon?
>Trivia
Andrew Johnson (Rod's son) got his HAM license: KC7RSR
Mike Jones saw one neat car after another in Hong Kong. Since
taxes total nearly the price of the car, and there are only abt. 70 miles of
roads, it's rather amazing.
European regulations now allow polycarbonate headlight lenses.
Consumer Reports says that their tests revealed no benefits from
fancy additives or premium motor oils, based on two years of use in New York
taxi cabs. Oil additives showed no significant reduction in engine wear.
Additionally, changing oil every 3,000 miles may not have advantages over the
manufacturer's recommendations or every 7,500 miles; however, extreme
conditions may justify the frequent changes. The complete report is available
in the July issue of Consumer Reports magazine.
Ron Barker has a new beige Toyota pickup. Either a T100 or
Tacoma extended cab model, according to the rumor.
Ed Millman tinkered with his "classic" Lotus Cortina race car,
and by time he was done, it was repainted dark green with a white stripe.
Nolte is building a new garage, and hasn't been over to the ES 1000
route lately. The plan remains to start from Moses Lake on Saturday morning,
and meander to the NE corner (Metaline Falls) with tours of Boundry Dam and
Gardner Cave. Overnight stop is Colville. Sunday's route returns to Moses
Lake by way of the near-desert back roads. One goal is to make the rally
route suitable for rental cars. The roads lend themselves to this new
concept...they're either unusable or pretty decent! Entry fee will be abt.
$100, including dinner.
Roy Ward has Plymouth "Tourisimo" project car. Combining the
products of JC Whitney and the Mopar Performance catalogs may/could result in
a perky performer. Despite a much larger engine compartment than his LeBaron
had, Roy is doing some other projects until his knuckles quit bleeding.
New computers: Roy now has an E-Mail address, and the Simons
have a new NEC PC.
John Fouse had his order in for V-10-powered Dodge Ram pickup,
but switched to a Ford when told that a propane conversion wasn't available
(John likes to have two fuel supplies on his ventures throughout British
Columbia) Latest word is the Ford doesn't have an approved conversion
available, yet.
Gene Henderson of Competition Ltd (E-mail : compltd@htonline.com
, or (313)464-1458) fitted four BMW 528IA's (new model!) with Timewise
547Bs for the Olympic Torch caravan. He also saw the rest of the "fleet",
including six BMW's painted in Georgia State Patrol colors!
The current "thread" on Rally L (Internet) revolves around GPS.
One item came up that caught my attention: besides the well-known location
error, the things also supply time-of-day- and it may be wrong, too!
>RASC enthusiasts Calendar
NWRC Hotline: (206) 277-4351
Vancouver Island Hotline: (604)746-8282
>Note that the ORV rallysprint date finally got corrected to the
last weekend in July. This is why Mountains to the Sea (Portland) is a week
earlier than originally scheduled.
May 1> Sept. 15: The Bellingham Boomerang Rally by Chuckanut Sports Car Club
consists of three loops out of Bellingham. Your $35 entry fee gets you
Generals, the Routes, and a scoresheet, then you drive the course at your
leisure (stop at all the pubs?) Sue Lingbloom says each loop could be driven
in 4-6 hours. Questions abt. the course and TSD section times make up the
score sheet. Entry forms available at the RASC meeting, or call (360)733-8897
or (360) 595-2213 for info.. NWRC members pay only $30. (There doesn't seem
to be a restriction on one entry for a whole club....)
July 5-7 SOVREN races at SIR
July 6 Reno Div-Pro
July 20 Mountains to the Sea TSD, Oregon, Russ Kraushaar
(541)745-7613 start is in Wilsonville, exit 283
off I-5. Reg. opens 10am)
July 27-28 ORV Park Rallysprint Div-Pro & SCCA General Meeting
Aug 3 Road Not Taken TSD, Oregon (or is it canceled?)
Sept. 14-15 Evergreen State 1000
Sept. 20-21 POR TSD (Michigan)
Sept. 22 Bainbridge Rallysprint #2, Vancouver Island
Sept. 28-29 Totem TSD, (B.C.Regional Series event)
October 19 Armageddon TSD (Chuckanut)
October 26-27 Midnight TSD (B.C. Regional Series event)
Nov 8>10 Pacific Forest SCCA Nat'l Rally & Year-end Awards
(Formerly TdF and Dryad Quest Div-Pro's)
June Friday Niter Results Presented by Rainier Auto Sports Club
No. Class Driver/ Navigator -Leg 1 - Leg 3 - Leg 4 - Leg 5 -
R/C - Total- o/a
18 MAS Cynthia Daily/Michael Daily 1 15 2 24
0 42 5
15 MAS Steve Pfau /Vasco DePinna 6 41 5 1
0 53 7
28 MAS Hal Dittman/Kelly Smith 12 22 4 17
0 55 9
4 MAS John Humphrey/Derris Hedlund 6 36 4 28
0 74 12
3 MAS Steve Case/Keith Uddenberg 6 49 4 19
0 78 14
17 NOV Mark King /Jason Flatebo 29 96 4 65
0 194 16
13 NOV Mark Mullen/Janene Mullen 14 7 20 163
30 234 17
16 NOV Dick Phillips/Mike Springer 18 58 1 300
30 407 19
11 NOV Ron Roscoe/Arthur Anderson 5 6 87 300
30 428 20
1 NOV Kris Carlisle/Lynn Thomas 97 107 10 300
30 544 23
9 NOV Nick Brown/Carry Porter 300 26 15 300
0 641 24
5 NOV Sharon Euster/Steve Gore 17 300 300 300
30 947 25
24 NOV Justin Collins /Jennifer Warren 95 300 300 300
0 995 26
14 NOV Shirley Leupold/Lea Jackson
27
2 SOP Dick Tennent/Dick Potter 4 8 6
1 0 19 4
10 SOP Lonna Thompson/Curt Thompson 6 10 20 14
0 50 6
21 SOP Andy Carrel/Edward Carrel 18 3 1 2
30 54 8
6 SOP Richard Crosier/Pamela Cain 11 3 7 7
30 58 11
22 SOP Todd Goins/Toni Goins 13 20 5
6 30 74 13
8 SOP Chuck Huffington/Ian Huffington 8 47 4 300
0 359 18
25 SOP Nick Reynolds/Zach Cox 117 4 17 300
30 468 21
23 SOP Ryan Madson/Neil Kalinowski 44 173 24 300
0 541 22
7 UNL Steve Roberts/Wes Goo 0 0 0
2 0 2 1
12 UNL Pat Biggar/Don Gibson 0 0 0
2 0 2 1
19 UNL Rob Matthesen/Chriss Maldonado 0 2 1 2
0 5 2
27 UNL Cheri Eddy/Bob Morseburg 2 6 1
5 0 14 3
26 UNL Bob Sjodin/Debbie Sjodin 39 17 0
1 0 57 10
20 Vint B Walt Carrel/Dee Carrel 13 37 16
49 30 145 15
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Rainier Auto Sports Club will meet this coming Monday, July 7, at 7:30 PM at
CoCo's in Bellevue. We have a meeting room set aside in the back. Monthly
meetings are the second Monday of each month. Past Members, visitors, and
spectators are welcomed.
>Agenda:
The Reno rally will be the freshest news. Jones wouldn't write up something
for the WAG, but can probably talk for a few minutes about "the cars of Hong
Kong". The final words about the June Friday Niter. Vince may have a new
gas-hog.
>1996 Board Members:
President: Kirk Simons, 854-0382, Vice-President: Joel Wright, 244-6253 ,
Secretary: Pete Shelton, 526-1130 , Treasurer: Cristy Breazeale, 935-8312.
Board Members: Vince Plancich, 742-3558 & Ed Millman, 361-7389
The Wishbone Alley Gazette is published for the members and friends of
Rainier Auto Sports Club.
The editor is Mark Nolte, ph. 226-3155. Contributions and paid/unpaid ads
eagerly received at WAG FAX Line: 226-1469.
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