Under great pressure from "old Italian Car teams" that are arriving from Italy to take place in the 2 day 2008 Odenwald Rallye, the totally-unknown non-International Rallye-Team of John 'the Old' & John 'the Young' will participate in the 2008 Odenwald Rallye - in their tomato-Red, White (we R adding a fat-white - pin-stripe to the color scheme; to hide some irritating paint-blemishes) & Blue Fulvia Zatago, in an attempt to bring the American Flag to the otherwise boring tree / grass green forrests of the Nord / Mid / Sud Odenwald (Oden's Forrest). 2 large USA flags will set off the RedWhiteBlue "Magic-Drinks" Advert Logo's on the non-aluminum doors.
Magic Drinks will pay the expense of entering (€ 75 for both days tours) & the fuel. What a Deal.
Ha ! J & J can eat Euro 75 worth of Odenwald-Cuisine at a single setting & 2 meals are included !
The Italian Teams have stated - IN VERY LOUD LANGUAGE "it starts 10 minutes from your house & it is 25 hours from our houses, so this year we accept no weak-excuses, like in past years".
Caving into this massive pressure, plus the fact that 2008 is the 1st year that John's (the younger) Mom will let him participate in this high-speed (for a snail) event, plus the fact that John (the elder) has decided to not spend every minute of the 2008 summer ' sitting by the phone awaiting the next order' & plus the fact that he finally realizes that it is 'morally acceptable to not work every day of the year' ; we will hold the Fulvia flag high & try to not be slower than the Fiat 500's.
1 other Fulvia 1.3S is registered. The "infamous hot-rod Fulvarati from the Odenwald" discussed in this Forum some months back will not be driven this year, since its owner will be (already is) occupied in organizing & running the Event.
NOTE: of course the Odenwald is never boring ! It is lovely 365 days a year & we (the blessed) live at the south-end of it. At this time of year, it is is breathtaking. In winter, it is too...but not in a Fulvia (its too wet).
We are approaching this 'challenge' as a shake-down for the treacherous Benelux/France Fulvia Raid of late 2008...I'll be practicing my drifts & attempt to avoid any off-road excursions.
J the young will have his "license' by then, so he will be a actively-driving co-driver soon !!
We will post a warning soon (ha ha)
Blood - Curdling Details May Follow !!!
big event planned
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Johnny48
event IN 3 Landes Region of SW Germany
Official Event is :
Bad Koenig Klassiker Festival in Dreilandeseck of Hessen 10%, Baden-Wuertenburg 85% & Bavaria 5%
Bad Koenig Klassiker Festival in Dreilandeseck of Hessen 10%, Baden-Wuertenburg 85% & Bavaria 5%
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fulvia as in claire
Results of Festival in 3 Landes Region of SW Germany
I correct the above %'ages... 0% Bavaria is correct..,,o it was a 2 Landes Event
The Festival started off on Friday-Evening with a calorie loaded "bang-up Welcome Dinner Buffet" for the Fiat Ballila & Topolino Teams & 1 lonely Fulvia. This high-calorie meal gave us all the energy to tackle the course under blazing sunshine on Saturday; although many drivers were several kg heavier.
Being the only Fulvia (also only Lancia) entered on Saturday; we were in a 'class of our own' & had nobódy to compete with. We were able to keep up with the "Jumbo-Jet size" Pink&White 1959 Cadillac , the "small-house-size" 61 Blood Red&White Chevy Convertible & other cars in Group 22.
No car in Gp could pass these 2 extremely wide-monsters...down narrow-lanes, through ancient-villages or on the tree-lined paths up in the Odenwald hills.
Thus we rode behind a 100HP Audi 100 for 1 hour, until we we stopped for gas. 10 minuted later we were back up to the Group 22 pack, at a "take-a-long-break control-point".
In that 10 minutes we had a tractor pulling a trailer loaded with logs cause us to scream & brake absolute
pedal-to-the-metal. The tractor-driver never saw us, or ... if he did...he didn't seem to care.
He must have assumed that the entire-Group was already past.
As perhaps did 2 young deer dashing toward & across the highway. We saw them in a field, sprinting for a tree-line on the other side of the road...luckily (for them & us) we saw them a long way off & adjusted our speed -to near-zero... my, but weren't they pretty !
Following a slow barge of a Cadillac was a good way for 'us' to start, since we had no idea of what we were doing for at least the 1st 30km or so; after which we 'usually 'understood the instructional-route-book. When we didn't understand the instructions, we just followed the leader. When we did understand the instructions, we still followed the leader; sometimes trusting too much in our new-friends ! Back up & turn around time !!
We all went down a # of "reserved for us" one-way-streets; not that we knew it at the time...but 'strangely- placed barriers' (temporary) forced us too either stop (forever) or follow the route-book....
We went up & down down "do not enter without official-written-permission or you will be shot" winding, dark & steep forest-trails - thinking we were hopelessly lost. As it turned-out - we were 'right-on-track'. Ha Ha Ha. We were beginning to understand better.....the sick-humor of the planners.
We went into "no-vehicle-allowed" historical market-places & "restricted-entry" palace court-yards...in which check-points & "fun things to do" were located.
We, in the Fulvia, had silly-fun jarring around a slalom-course on cobblestone (much too fast, as it turned out); driving between narrow (adjustable to car width + 1 micro-meter) cardboard-box-walls; driving under
the "guess the height of the highest point of your vehicle & enter it in block 6" limbo-bars, driving through a "go-slow obstacle-courses" (we learned to go slow after getting no points for being too fast on the slalom) & had no fun in an event that we never found (we think it didn't exist).
Some cars in group-22 (ha ha - like in Catch 22) - the group for "selected front-engined-cars of 60's & 70's + a gaggle of odds & end cars that don't fit in any other group or cars that snuck into our group & stayed - like some 12cyl XKE's - had problems with overheating do to the go-slow tempo .. even.while on the open-road.
Somehow the Caddy was sent off first; ha ha & stayed in the middle of the road when passing the Cadillac "may have been possable",,, .
At the lunch break many in Gp 22 ate quickly & hit the road before the Cadillac-Driver was aware of it.
We, in the Fulvia, understand that there were some angry -words spoken during lunch ...about the pace ... & a few other matters .. but we didn't witness anything out of the ordinary.
There were about 200 vehicles ( Historical - Buses, lots of Lotus 7 clones & 1 real Lotus 7.
The HP ranged from less than 20 to 400+. The "major Classes" were sent off on different routes.
A 6 door, 9 passenger Citroen Traction Avant was in Group 22 as well. We heard it cound't negotiate some of the challenges - due to both width & length. W wondered ff the Caddy & Chevy even tried these challenges ? We finished # 91. Thje white Audi was # 88.
There were only a few reported breakdowns; of which we were not one. No accidents were reported !
Day 2, today was ... everything you could / would want to pack in 1 day... many more 1kph (or less) fun-things & mad-mid-speed-dashes (for us in the Fulvia) through the hills & valleys. Today we didn't have to follow anyone slower than us ! NO Caddy & no Chevy,
3 Beta Monte Carlos & 2 Fulvia 1.6 HF were entered. today; courtesy of the German Lancia Club.
We joined them for a while & were quite a bit off Group 22's (those remaining) planned-course ...
We decided to take a "known-only-to-us short-cut "& caught up with Group 22 in time for coffee.
10 seconds later the Lancia Crew arrived at the same Castle Courtyard....
Some short cut that turned out to be !!
We think we were docked some points for something or another & didn't finish in the top 80%.
Strange..since today we drove slow when we were supposed to & answered all the silly ?'s corretly !
Since the "Announcers" at each Check-Point & at each Historical-Sight had no idea what it was that we were driving, we got to laugh at the "Now We Welcome this nice red car...ummmm ahhha # 166, (we were 155), which was a Monte Carlo Rallye Winner in the 60's... now I pass the microphone to the driver ...who still owns the same car" ...so he can tell you what it is.
We (of course) never told the truth; changed our text at each stop & said things like "we flew in from America only yesterday - in Cowboy-English just to be here today; thank you & harry Vi Derchi".
Maybe we were docked a lot of points for lying ? We hope to do it again next year !
The Festival started off on Friday-Evening with a calorie loaded "bang-up Welcome Dinner Buffet" for the Fiat Ballila & Topolino Teams & 1 lonely Fulvia. This high-calorie meal gave us all the energy to tackle the course under blazing sunshine on Saturday; although many drivers were several kg heavier.
Being the only Fulvia (also only Lancia) entered on Saturday; we were in a 'class of our own' & had nobódy to compete with. We were able to keep up with the "Jumbo-Jet size" Pink&White 1959 Cadillac , the "small-house-size" 61 Blood Red&White Chevy Convertible & other cars in Group 22.
No car in Gp could pass these 2 extremely wide-monsters...down narrow-lanes, through ancient-villages or on the tree-lined paths up in the Odenwald hills.
Thus we rode behind a 100HP Audi 100 for 1 hour, until we we stopped for gas. 10 minuted later we were back up to the Group 22 pack, at a "take-a-long-break control-point".
In that 10 minutes we had a tractor pulling a trailer loaded with logs cause us to scream & brake absolute
pedal-to-the-metal. The tractor-driver never saw us, or ... if he did...he didn't seem to care.
He must have assumed that the entire-Group was already past.
As perhaps did 2 young deer dashing toward & across the highway. We saw them in a field, sprinting for a tree-line on the other side of the road...luckily (for them & us) we saw them a long way off & adjusted our speed -to near-zero... my, but weren't they pretty !
Following a slow barge of a Cadillac was a good way for 'us' to start, since we had no idea of what we were doing for at least the 1st 30km or so; after which we 'usually 'understood the instructional-route-book. When we didn't understand the instructions, we just followed the leader. When we did understand the instructions, we still followed the leader; sometimes trusting too much in our new-friends ! Back up & turn around time !!
We all went down a # of "reserved for us" one-way-streets; not that we knew it at the time...but 'strangely- placed barriers' (temporary) forced us too either stop (forever) or follow the route-book....
We went up & down down "do not enter without official-written-permission or you will be shot" winding, dark & steep forest-trails - thinking we were hopelessly lost. As it turned-out - we were 'right-on-track'. Ha Ha Ha. We were beginning to understand better.....the sick-humor of the planners.
We went into "no-vehicle-allowed" historical market-places & "restricted-entry" palace court-yards...in which check-points & "fun things to do" were located.
We, in the Fulvia, had silly-fun jarring around a slalom-course on cobblestone (much too fast, as it turned out); driving between narrow (adjustable to car width + 1 micro-meter) cardboard-box-walls; driving under
the "guess the height of the highest point of your vehicle & enter it in block 6" limbo-bars, driving through a "go-slow obstacle-courses" (we learned to go slow after getting no points for being too fast on the slalom) & had no fun in an event that we never found (we think it didn't exist).
Some cars in group-22 (ha ha - like in Catch 22) - the group for "selected front-engined-cars of 60's & 70's + a gaggle of odds & end cars that don't fit in any other group or cars that snuck into our group & stayed - like some 12cyl XKE's - had problems with overheating do to the go-slow tempo .. even.while on the open-road.
Somehow the Caddy was sent off first; ha ha & stayed in the middle of the road when passing the Cadillac "may have been possable",,, .
At the lunch break many in Gp 22 ate quickly & hit the road before the Cadillac-Driver was aware of it.
We, in the Fulvia, understand that there were some angry -words spoken during lunch ...about the pace ... & a few other matters .. but we didn't witness anything out of the ordinary.
There were about 200 vehicles ( Historical - Buses, lots of Lotus 7 clones & 1 real Lotus 7.
The HP ranged from less than 20 to 400+. The "major Classes" were sent off on different routes.
A 6 door, 9 passenger Citroen Traction Avant was in Group 22 as well. We heard it cound't negotiate some of the challenges - due to both width & length. W wondered ff the Caddy & Chevy even tried these challenges ? We finished # 91. Thje white Audi was # 88.
There were only a few reported breakdowns; of which we were not one. No accidents were reported !
Day 2, today was ... everything you could / would want to pack in 1 day... many more 1kph (or less) fun-things & mad-mid-speed-dashes (for us in the Fulvia) through the hills & valleys. Today we didn't have to follow anyone slower than us ! NO Caddy & no Chevy,
3 Beta Monte Carlos & 2 Fulvia 1.6 HF were entered. today; courtesy of the German Lancia Club.
We joined them for a while & were quite a bit off Group 22's (those remaining) planned-course ...
We decided to take a "known-only-to-us short-cut "& caught up with Group 22 in time for coffee.
10 seconds later the Lancia Crew arrived at the same Castle Courtyard....
Some short cut that turned out to be !!
We think we were docked some points for something or another & didn't finish in the top 80%.
Strange..since today we drove slow when we were supposed to & answered all the silly ?'s corretly !
Since the "Announcers" at each Check-Point & at each Historical-Sight had no idea what it was that we were driving, we got to laugh at the "Now We Welcome this nice red car...ummmm ahhha # 166, (we were 155), which was a Monte Carlo Rallye Winner in the 60's... now I pass the microphone to the driver ...who still owns the same car" ...so he can tell you what it is.
We (of course) never told the truth; changed our text at each stop & said things like "we flew in from America only yesterday - in Cowboy-English just to be here today; thank you & harry Vi Derchi".
Maybe we were docked a lot of points for lying ? We hope to do it again next year !
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Johnny48
Re: Results of Festival in 3 Landes Region of SW Germany
maybe "Fulvia as in Claire" regained some of those lost points; 6th out of 22 isn't bad for beginners, especially with a slow Fulvia, complete with badly-misfiring "pop-pop-pop" engine.