#folkrace

Misty Orchestra Feat. Speaker Hjelm Dökött Sven Rubin

Where things get interesting, at least for me, is in the claimer rule. You see, in order to keep people from having a car that’s too not-shit, any competitor can go up to any other competitor and buy their car for five hundred dollars. So don’t spend too much on go-fast parts, and don’t bother putting nice new body panels on after Bob Nilsson tears the front end of your Saab off because he doesn’t understand brakes. A hammer, dolly, and if you’re really fancy, a paint roller dripping with leftover house primer is all you really need to be a superstar.

Distraught at the state of $1000 beaters in my own backyard, I decided to head to Sweden. There, I reasoned, I would be able to find a turd that can at least survive a lap of the track without blowing up. The last few cars I had purchased had basically turned themselves into very expensive projects within a couple weeks of their purchase date, so it was important to me to finally put a notch in the “W” column. And if it didn’t work out? Well, Volvos are very popular with hipsters, nowadays, so I’d probably be able to ditch a blown-up one.

At the next folk race, I stuck out like a sore thumb. Not because of my colour - Swedes are the only ones paler than your average Canadians - but because of my general incompetence at schmoozing racers. Neither rally nor trackday bro, these drivers were of an entirely different breed, and I found that I could scarcely communicate with them. It was like they were speaking an entirely different language.

As the afternoon wore on, I eventually resorted to the classic technique of just walking around shoving fistfuls of dollars in their faces. That’s when I found out that Sweden doesn’t even take the plastic rainbow of currency that has our finest dead prime ministers, living monarchs and nuisance animals on it. The whole thing was downright embarrassing, or so I assumed. Yet, with persistence, I was able to convince one of the more wild-eyed drivers to come along with me and interpret.

At long, long last, I had my hands on a Volvo 850. Or at least it was a Volvo 850 - the front end was more trapezoidal than I remember them being, there were no lights, no glass and not much of an interior, but it was mine, and I had saved like four grand off what an actively-on-fire, coolant-spewing example would have gone for in my own neighbourhood. The next step was to simply bring it home with me, which surely couldn’t have been that hard if the other Volvos made it so very long ago, before we had even invented such modern-day conveniences as internet pornography and liquid cocaine.

İsveç Halk Ralli Kros Yarışı

Amatör yarış dediğin bu şekilde olmalı, lütfen sayın TOSFED örnek alınız. Her sene İsveç‘te düzenlenen Folkrace isimli organizasyonlarda her sınıf araç ile sadece cam ve rollcage önlemlerini alarak insanların katılabildiği yarışlar düzenleniyor. Ralli Kros yarışları kıran kırana geçiyor, kimse yarış arabası ile gelmiyor elde kalan eski arabalar ile bu yarışları gerçekleştiriyorlar. Pro yok bu…

Jag har tillhört dem som kanske har ansett att motorsport inte borde ha ordet sport efter sig. Sport för mig är något där kroppen ska arbeta. Tänk så fel jag har haft. Det hela handlar om okunskap. Att åka motocross på landsvägar eller sitta en dag på en folkrace bana gör kroppen riktigt mör.

Jag har precis upptcäkt tjusningen med folkrace. Fick följa med en polare i början av säsongen till en tävling och vilken underbar stämning det var. Sedan har jag varit där ett par gånger till och alltid blivit väl mottagen. Det är ett trevligt folk som pysslar med bilar.

I helgen köpte jag en gammal skruttig Volvo V70 och nu ska den rustas upp. Jag har beställt hem flera motordelar från Skruvat, www.skruvat.se är adressen om vi vill ha bra bildelar till låga priser. Fick det tipset av Krille som är något av en bilexpert. Fast jag har handlat hos dem tidigare men aldrig tänkt på hur stor skillnad det faktiskt är. Särskilt när det är en gammal skruttig bil som ska rustas upp och flera olika motordelar behövs handlas.