I've watched this enough times to figure out what's happening here.

The Finns apparently have a rather unique auto inspection rule, which requires each applicant to allow the inhabitants of each village the opportunity to inspect the underside of his vehicle.

Once the villagers have had a glance and are satisfied, they cheer the new owner and help him on his way. It builds trust and friendship btwn each driver and the villages he intends to drive thru.

Quite strange, those Finns, but I guess it works.

Frank

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUPZqWF6_sU

(PS ~ Please turn aside @00:42 and 02:27. Thank you ).

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French rules are slightly more conservative.

The applicant is only required to display every side of his car to each resident of every village. It is considered polite to get as close to the villagers as possible, to show your trust of them by allowing them to 'pet' your car if they wish. Very polite drivers take their car right to the citizens.

Social recognition improves with the degree of drama you can generate with your arrival.

You get even more credit points if you kindly display the underside of your car, but as you can see, it's not mandatory.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l52fIDV3 ... re=related


Frank

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1970 240Z

Wouldn't it be much easier to cut the trees down with an axe as opposed to attacking them with their cars?

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Bill James
Western Nebraska
1979 280zx coupe parts car
1980 280 zx coupe
2005 Pathfinder
1971 240 z
1982 280zx, 1977 &1974 corvettes

great find! It's amazing how fast it could all go wrong, that's the thing I dislike in Rallying and the reason I admire WORKS drivers for doing it all year long at even faster speed.
But you're right about the social importance of the cars in our European culture. It's a bond between people but for you North American it's merely a tool to get to work in time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ7R_buZPSo
But this attitude is controversial when you come in France for work , you should comply to the local uses!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TshFWSs ... re=channel

I agree with your selections, Frank: who would beat up a P1800 like
that? But I have to add 1:14 to the list: that's a Datsun 510!!!

Phil would have to tip his hat to the photographers who seem to know
exactly where to stand to get all the good action shots. You would
almost think it was planned that way!
~Rick~

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All Z Best,.......Kathy & Rick

1969 Z.CAR (#00013 10/69) 8/30/76
1969 ITSA.Z (#00171 11/69) 8/24/73
1970 OLD.Z (#06289 6/70) original owner
1971 510 2dr since 12/31/75
1969 1600 rdstr (our 160-Z)
1971 (#19851 1/71) sold
1975 75.Z (#01343 1/75)

At 4:26: "Perdonne, m'sieur, am I interrupting your lunch?"

It would be a hoot to hear from Carl Beck, to see if these videos are
getting him excited enough to get the ol' Baja Z out for a spin in Europe!
(Somehow I don't think so.)
~Rick~

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All Z Best,.......Kathy & Rick

1969 Z.CAR (#00013 10/69) 8/30/76
1969 ITSA.Z (#00171 11/69) 8/24/73
1970 OLD.Z (#06289 6/70) original owner
1971 510 2dr since 12/31/75
1969 1600 rdstr (our 160-Z)
1971 (#19851 1/71) sold
1975 75.Z (#01343 1/75)

Just another mid summer celebration..
01:30, 01:37, 01:45 etc hurt me more (I used to have one of those)

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[quote=

Phil would have to tip his hat to the photographers who seem to know
exactly where to stand to get all the good action shots. You would
almost think it was planned that way!
~Rick~[/quote]

probably was.. they drive the same roads in these rallies yearly and spectators pretty much know the "best places". amazing then that the driver's don't..

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(Oh no ~ Boomer found videos of my wife taking shortcuts to work! )

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Two words..."pace notes". The navigator should be reading his pace notes to let the driver know what's coming up, left, right, possible braking points, jumps etc.
"Heh you no wana listen, oh crapa!" Lots of things go wrong in a hurry.
Stage rallies usually allow a pre-event practice run to make notes as to were the road goes.
Below a shot of my 1971 510 coming into a check point in an SCCA TSD rally, mid seventies, "Northeast All Night Rally Series".
I never rolled it, I didn't want to screw up my roof mounted Marchals.
Lucas Flame Thrower on the bumper, Cibie high beams.
Colin,
the older one

most of the very best rally drivers were famous for crashing many, many cars when they were younger. yes, they had pace notes and yes they did listen to them but they had to find the limits and learn driving on the edge without crashing. they say it's easier to make a champion out of a young crazy driver who goes 110% and keeps crashing than another one who goes 90% and never crashes..

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I think you have totally misinterpreted these videos. These videos are shot by bands of Finnish and Norwegian vandals who grease up a section of road and then run out to rob the victims after they crash....

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71 on a rotisserie, two more in pieces in my shed...and a 69 1600 waiting for me to get to it

HAHA!

Yeah Mark ~ when I was a teen we attended rallies in upstate New York farm country. Local teens would run out and throw balloons full of antifreeze on the turns between cars, then take rolls of photos of them crashing.

There were fewer 'officials' watching the course back in the 1960s.

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1970 240Z

Mark, you're cracking me up!
I almost fell out of my chair laughing!

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Bill James
Western Nebraska
1979 280zx coupe parts car
1980 280 zx coupe
2005 Pathfinder
1971 240 z
1982 280zx, 1977 &1974 corvettes

My friends father told him when he get his licence that "only after your first crash you can truly drive your car!" So true! After driving my 150Y Datsun in the ditch for few times i learned how to drive slippery winter roads with high speed. I mean no one HAVE to drive icy roads fast, but they WANT to.




HAHAHAHA thats the best explanation i've ever heard

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