Susqehannock Performance rally 2012

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VQpwrdSE-R
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Located in Tioga county a Rally America event has run for the past 36 years . This year I finally had the opportunity to go. I had always remembered a fellow classmate in middle school talking about it but only seriously looked into it until the past 2 years. STPR has held big names such as Dave mirra and Travis Pastrana. It is a 2 day event with several stages and a Subaru special stage held both Friday and saturday nights at a small fairgrounds outside of wellsboro, PA. The majority of the pics are from the special stage. Anyways on with the pics.

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A team swapping tires and prepping for the special stage
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2 BRZs were brought out by a dealer for the crowd to check out. I sat in one. I like the interiors and feel of the car. 6 "3 me would render the back seat useless for anyone but a baby or bilateral amputee. But who really cares. Nobody buys these for the cargo/ occupant capacity.

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RHD Aussie driven Silvia, autually 2 exact clones were there.

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4x4 status Silvia, clearly serves its purpose for rally but is hard to get used to to seeing this ride height.
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280 z
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This neon got driven hard.

Introductions before woods stages were give in Wellboro. Small town USA. Antique shops, art galleries, a Traincar diner, and gas lit lamps adorn the mainstreet.
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Good view on the 7th stage
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View of PA grand canyon at coltons point

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Jesda maybe you can age this 70s? Saab
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A little AWD celica action. Don't get too excited Torry, it was not originally an all-trac. From what I've heard they converted it. Ended up following it in the truck in between stages on the road. It geared down to overtake a tractor and lets just say it was lacking in the power dept. :chuckle:
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Apparently only Hondas land in their roofs. This is a civic hatch doing its impersonation of an immobilized turtle. A Honda fit also rolled that night. The special stage was setup with 1 mile of track before you. At one time 2 cars raced on 2 separate tracks and used this 4 lane graded section to switch and race the next track. As the timing worked out most cars when they reached this straight the 2nd time were neck and neck adding to the excitement. The track change required a 180 to get to the next lane. This civic braked too hard sending it onto the shoulder.
Now of course not the whole weekend was spent watching racing. Several cases of beer were consumed and being in the best area in PA for trout fishing we did some of that as wellImage
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Some of the native brook and brown trout all fried up.


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Very nice I enjoyed that read. Looks like yall had a fun weekend. Thanks for sharing.

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Awesome way to spend the weekend. Would have loved to have seen that Silvia. :)

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I will have to dig up videos as well. I may have some of the Silvia Becky. I also have video of the civic Rolling. I'll post anything that's interesting.


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