Greetings, Bricksters, and a safe and Happy New Year to you all, from Cleveland: Well the 2003 SCCA Rallye season is upon us and it looks like the Detroit and NEOhio groups of the Central Division are gearing up for some fun this year. I guess I'll get back into the swing of it and drag my butt out of the house and into the snow for some winter motorsports. The question, of course is whether or not I should buy the old 240 diesel that's sitting in the neighbors driveway, and has been for some time, and set it up as a vintage-class machine. I'll have to think about that a bit, but I'd like an opinion. I'm looking at the low-end torque, since the winter events are pretty low-speed, through the snow deals, that rely more upon accuracy than giddy-up. The more important question is how many of my fellow Bricksters have prepped a 200 series for rallying, what did you do, what did you add to the car, and how successful were you. Understand, I'm not about to spend a boatload of dough on the car, but thought that perhaps a skid plate, a reweld of the exhaust, and the addition of tons o' lights would be a good start. Any other 'low budget' mods done on your cars? I'd be really interested in your rally histories, since I've been out of the sport for quite a while, having run MGs, a Datsun Sentra, and a 260Z back in the '70s and '80s. Any rallye programs that might run on a laptop? Do they need to be tied into the odometer with some typr of interface? Oh' hell, I'm going 'stream of consciousness' now. I'm getting out of here....

Brad