The Great Pumpkin Rally

Printable View

10-01-2010, 10:08 PM
sccarally

The Great Pumpkin Rally

It’s the Great Pumpkin Rally, Charlie Brown!

* Rally Day: Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
* Starting Place: Starbucks, 2779 Ridge Road, Rockwall, TX just off of I-30
* Registration: 9:00 to 9:45am on Rally Day
* Rally School: 9:45 to 10:15am
* Starting Time (1st Car out): 10:30am plus your car number
* Length: 120 miles (~3 hours)
* Finish: Downtown Paris at the Festival of Pumpkins with street vendors, shopping, antique shops and more.
* Rally type: 1) TSD (time-speed-distance, but to the second and 1/10th of a mile). 2) Traditional sign-hunt.
* Route: It’s the same as last year. If you ran it last year, you must run it as a TSD this year.
* Vehicles: Sports Cars, Classic Cars, Antiques, Hot Rods, Cruisers, Speedsters, anything with 4 wheels that’s street legal is OK in this Rally. We had two Miatas in our last rally. Team Zoom Zoom was runner-up in the Team competition.
* Rally Fee: $30.00 SCCA Members: $20.00 $5.00 late fee if not preregistered at tinyurl.com/GPR10msr .
* Awards for the usual SCCA Classes, in both 1) TSD and 2) sign-hunt.
* Rallymasters: Richard and Juanita Miller

If you want to try your hand at "Time-Speed-Distance" rallying, bring a stop-watch and a calculator, or just 'guestimate' and see how close you can come to the assigned speed.

If not, just enter the sign-hunt and try to figure out Richard's puns. It's fun.

All on paved roads, at legal speeds and … get ready for a fun morning on the road, and more fun at the Festival of Pumpkins in Paris!

See the rally flyer at www.texasscca.org/rally.html for more information on the Great Pumpkin Rally and other events.
10-02-2010, 07:07 AM
onething

Hey sccarally I have a couple of questions since I finally do not have a conflict on my calendar!

I know my odo is not accurate. In TSD is it legal to use a GPS to monitor speed? I also thought of making a corrected speed chart ahead of time. Would that be more manageable?

I am a member of SCCA, but my nav isn't. Do I still get the cheaper fee?

I'm registered!!!
10-02-2010, 08:36 AM
POS Racing

"Team Fail" is now registered! ;-)
10-02-2010, 09:32 AM
cone-cerned

One of these days, the schedule will work out so that Ms.-cerned and I will be able to do some rallies.
10-02-2010, 10:13 AM
sccarally

Quote:

Originally Posted by onething

Hey sccarally I have a couple of questions since I finally do not have a conflict on my calendar!

I know my odo is not accurate. In TSD is it legal to use a GPS to monitor speed? I also thought of making a corrected speed chart ahead of time. Would that be more manageable?

I am a member of SCCA, but my nav isn't. Do I still get the cheaper fee?

I'm registered!!!

Yes, GPS is legal. Some people who are really good at this sport say it doesn't work very well they way we do things, but it will keep you close. The problem is every time the assigned speed changes, you need to record how early or late you are NOW, and reset the GPS to start keeping a new speed for you. All without losing any time! But it should be fun to try.

Yes, we consider a car to be an "SCCA car" if any one of the occupants is an SCCA member.

We look forward to seeing you!
10-19-2010, 09:35 AM
POS Racing

Woot!

Almost time for the Rally to Paris! ::Banana::
10-19-2010, 02:06 PM
onething

Since you are using KK for your codriver, I suppose the brakes will work properly everytime and in every direction.
10-19-2010, 02:16 PM
Titus

Quote:

Originally Posted by onething

Since you are using KK for your codriver, I suppose the brakes will work properly everytime and in every direction.

I think it is only right that SHE drives and POS navigates.
10-19-2010, 03:53 PM
POS Racing

Quote:

Originally Posted by onething

Since you are using KK for your codriver, I suppose the brakes will work properly everytime and in every direction.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Titus

I think it is only right that SHE drives and POS navigates.

Sadly my autocross co-driver has so badly maimed the POSIV it will be unable to make the Rally...... ::Drive2::

;)

We may take the Yellow Miata or we may take the Toyota... Still tying to decide!
10-20-2010, 10:13 AM
patf

sorry to hear that POS... hope she is OK
10-20-2010, 10:15 AM
altiain

What did halthang due to the POSIV?
10-20-2010, 03:44 PM
onething

Quote:

Originally Posted by patf

sorry to hear that POS... hope she is OK

I'm a guy . KK is a teenaged girl - nuff said.

Quote:

Originally Posted by altiain

What did halthang due to the POSIV?

Nothing. The POSIV has an issue with a back brake dragging.
10-20-2010, 05:32 PM
POS Racing

Quote:

Originally Posted by onething

Nothing. The POSIV has an issue with a back brake dragging.

Yep parked it after the SCCA Event on Sunday haven't looked at it yet.

Looking like the Yellow car will the one we use. ;-)
10-21-2010, 02:51 PM
onething

You gonna show some MME love with magnets?
10-21-2010, 04:03 PM
CarCar

::Banana::Looking like me and my son will be doing this one in the Z4 as first timers. Considering just doing the sign hunt. Father and son are both dyslexic and attention deficit. Stop watches, calculations and and directions will be a hoot for us together.::Banana::
10-21-2010, 05:02 PM
onething

Great!
10-21-2010, 05:13 PM
POS Racing

Quote:

Originally Posted by onething

You gonna show some MME love with magnets?

Nope we were told they perfer you don't pimp the car to draw attention to the group.

Quote:

Originally Posted by CarCar

::Banana::Looking like me and my son will be doing this one in the Z4 as first timers. Considering just doing the sign hunt. Father and son are both dyslexic and attention deficit. Stop watches, calculations and and directions will be a hoot for us together.::Banana::

We are going to skip the stop watch part of this rally since we are newbies still.

Looking forward to meeting you! (Keep you kid away from my daughter. ;) )

If your son is minor make sure you get the minor waver all filled out and notarized before the event.
10-21-2010, 07:19 PM
POS Racing

FYI - Last day to register online: Fri Oct 22, 2010 *Closes tomorrow at 12:01P Central time!* - www.tinyurl.com/GPR10msr
10-21-2010, 08:10 PM
CarCar

I missed that about the minor waiver. Thanks for the heads up.
btw, he's 10. ;)
10-21-2010, 08:21 PM
POS Racing

Quote:

Originally Posted by CarCar

I missed that about the minor waiver. Thanks for the heads up.
btw, he's 10. ;)

Yea they actually called us when we signed up for our first rally about the Minor Waiver.
10-21-2010, 09:15 PM
CarCar

Team Handsome is registered but now confused... Registration event receipt and thread starter states 9:00am sign in, 9:45am first timer meeting. Event flier states 8:00am sign in, 8:45am first timer meeting. What is the real time? We will be driving for 3 hours in the morning to get to this from Atlanta.
10-21-2010, 09:25 PM
POS Racing

Quote:

Originally Posted by CarCar

Team Handsome is registered but now confused... Registration event receipt and thread starter states 9:00am sign in, 9:45am first timer meeting. Event flier states 8:00am sign in, 8:45am first timer meeting. What is the real time? We will be driving for 3 hours in the morning to get to this from Atlanta.

L.D. Bell Graduate?? ;-) Try looking at the 2010 flyer not the 2009 flyer.

http://www.texasscca.org/Great_Pumpk...y_2010_rev.pdf

L.D. Bell Class of '86 ::Banana::
10-21-2010, 09:57 PM
CarCar

...nevermind. :facepalm:
10-23-2010, 05:50 PM
POS Racing

Everyone make it home OK?? It rained like hell on us all the way to Dallas....

Fun event sucks about the weather.
10-23-2010, 07:17 PM
onething

We bailed about 20 min after you guys left Subway. The difference is we called the event folks to let them know we weren't hanging around for the results.

I looked at Tom and said "In the AX tradition, Brad, Jen, we're leavin'. If we trophied, bring it to us, OK?" Jen said, "I was gonna say the same thing to you."

We had a great time, even if we missed one of the major components of the TSD. I hate that the festival got washed away and those poor folks had to pack up everything in the monsoon.

Paris to Arlington in the rain was a whoopin.

Personal bad news, my car threw a code in the first leg. Good news is the code cleared when I left Tom's house. Must have been the gas cap again, I guess.

Tom says we'd be better if we did this more than once every two years. We'll have to work on that.
10-23-2010, 09:33 PM
CarCar

We stopped looking for signs before Roxton and just followed directions to Paris. Rain hit us so hard I could not see the front of the car. Did not feel safe at all. We made it to Paris but didn't turn in our incomplete answer sheet. Felt it would have been pointless as late as we arrived and did not feel like getting drenched walking around trying to find the visitors office. My navigator is 10 years old and I thought he did a great job. We were real slow and missed plenty of turns and doubled back a few times and had to pull over to work on our spelling and understand directions and stuff but we had a great time together. Up until today he has just been a passive passsenger in the back seat of the mommy mobile with his 2 sisters and a dvd. First time experience influencing and taking an active part in reaching a destination was today. I am a proud dad. The weather really sucked though, top up all day and slow around the fun curves due to the wet, bleh. Mitch told me on the way home his favorite parts were the gravel road with the huge cloud of dust we put up, driving into a huge flock of black birds, and peeing on a tree.
10-24-2010, 11:13 AM
onething

CarCar - it sounds like a great success for you guys. Glad you made it, and glad you made the time for your son. That is awesome!