$500 Craigslist car entered into World Rally Mexico

[RichK]

Great story:

Dude enters $500 car into WRC round

This is the multifaceted tale of Bill Caswell, a man who bought a $500 crapcan off Craigslist to run against the $400,000+ rally cars in the World Rally Championship's Rally Mexico race earlier this month. It is a tale of a guy who had a welder, a bunch of credit cards, and a lot of free time but no real backing or funds. It is a story of a dude who taught himself how to build an FIA-legal roll cage, with no prior experience, because he wanted to spend the fabrication fee on race tires instead. It's the story of an enthusiast who drove a rustbucket to a third place finish in a FIA-sanctioned race.

 

[Karbon]

hell yeah. Gotta love the underdogs.

 

[wannabe]

Thanks! That was a good read! :thumbup

It's funny how people like this always make me feel like I'm not doing enough with my life. :teeth

 

[Johndicezx9]

:laughing

That is AWESOME! :thumbup

(EDIT: HD Theater has been showing the Rally Mexico for the last week or so, I think I may have even dvr'd it, now I have to watch it.)

 

[Cycle61]

awesome

 

[auntiebling]

epic

 

[Caddywumpus]

shinnanigans! EPIC SHINNANGIANS!

 

[Mike95060]

I really hope BMW gets wind of this and hands the guy fist fulls of cash and some race support. :thumbup underdog

 

[mikev]

So who wants to go in halfsies on an old racebike and enter MotoGP with me?

 

[Cycle61]

So who wants to go in halfsies on an old racebike and enter MotoGP with me?

Dude, I'm so there. :thumbup

 

[mikev]

fuggit, we can just swap sprockets on the SV :cool

 

[Phaedrus]

Holy crappings, what an awesome story!

I'd like to learn more about how he was able to enter...very surprised to find they don't have license requirements, or specific rules that deny any car but the very specialized cars that usually are entered.

 

[zimi...]

:thumbup

 

[dkcwenge]

this is so awesome!!!

 

[Yakoo752]

 

[Beauregard]

Fully stokes me.

 

[corndog]

Sickest story of the year!

 

[maxandgrinch]

I'd like to learn more about how he was able to enter...very surprised to find they don't have license requirements, or specific rules that deny any car but the very specialized cars that usually are entered.

It was in Mexico?





:laughing

 

[xtasie99]

Hey, my lemons car used to look just like that. Almost identical, in fact. Then we rolled it, hacked at it, crashed it.... Now it looks like a demolition derby car.

 

[RichK]

Follow up story by the co-driver.