Our recently departed 79 Convertible was to replace our 86 GTI as both a daily driver, but also a TSD rally car. TSD stands for TIME-SPEED-DISTANCE. In a nutshell, teams are given a set of instructions on what route to drive, are told to drive at certain pre-determined, legal speeds, and must arrive at unknown points along the route called checkpoints. Arrival at these checkpoints must be on-time, one point is deducted for every 1/100th of a minute a team arrives either early or late at a checkpoint. For those of you from the otehr side of the pond, these rallies are referred to as regularity runs. Anyway, yesterday was sunny in the mid-fifties an ideal day for a Sunday drive, so I went out to the EuroVan and hooked up our TSD computer and the rest of the rally equipment, and off my wife, Alex and I went to the local rally. Ok, I admit a van of anysort is not exactly a perfect rally platform...but if its all you have then you go with it. Rather than go into the details of the event, I'll get to the important part...we took first place overall, and first in class!!! Not bad for what we believe the world's only Rally EuroVan!! Ric
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