--- In historicrally@yahoogroups.com, "Team Blitz" <blitz@...> wrote:
>
> Who in the hell are buying these? They are antiques. It's like
buying old
> tone arms when you don't even have a phonograph player. The old
people who
> need antique rally meters are people who are fitting out antique
rally cars.
> How many of us are there? Like 200 or 300 worldwide?

Is this guy for real ? I don't know what he means by "antique" rally
cars - in the UK, we'd use the term "antique" for something over 100
years at least. Cars which use Haldas will be called Historics or
possibly Classics. Sticking with the post-war cars covering the 50s
through to the 70s, there are thousands - not an elite few hundreds -
in the UK alone, let alone the rest of Europe. Every few weekends
there are low-key historic road rallies in the UK attracting 50-100
entries. As for Europe, the Historic Monte alone regularly gets more
than 300 entries. Then there's Le Jog, the Classic Marathon, the
Tulip, the Liege, ... Many of them on snow, some using forests,
rarely using closed roads, all extremely challenging, with maybe
36-hour long "days" between rest halts. Those who take part in them
tend to say they're much more challenging than historic stage rallies,
with their support crews, pacenotes, closed roads and very short
competitive sections. Come over and try sometime - if you think
you're up to it !