Not one but two posts today on Jalopnik about two guys who competed in this month's WRC Rally of Mexico driving a $500 Craigslist BMW 318i with an M3 engine swap that the driver built himself, with one support van, no crew, and a pretty big appetite for adventure.
http://jalopnik.com/5500013/i-co+drove-the-500-craigslist-rally-car
http://jalopnik.com/5497042/how-a-500-craigslist-car-beat-400k-rally-racers
Things in the stories that you won't find in Richard Burns Rally:
- Bribing Mexican policemen to let you make up lost time during transit between stages.
- Peeling down your driving suit as soon as the car rolls to a halt to effect repairs. "They said that I must be part Mexican because of the way I fix my car. That's a compliment, right?"
- Welding up a new engine mount overnight because your co-driver's borrowed-and-photocopied pace notes were in Portuguese and he doesn't know Portuguese, and he said "dip" when he should have said "jump."
- Getting trashed on vodka shots with Petter and Henning Solberg.
I don't know anything about the authors or how much of this is the God's-honest truth but it's a good read. The part about vodka shots with the Solbergs rings true for me at least.
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