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Ok, I stand corrected. After searching, it seems as though it was indeed a Subaru. I think I was thinking of Cannonball Run II, maybe he was in the Isuzu Impulse in that one, that is the one where his codriver was Richard Kiel, who was "Jaws" from the Bond films. I was in elementary school in the early 80s, so that is my excuse.

Ok, did a little more research and found The Internet Movie Car Database. A usefull little site. It appears Jackie was driving a Subaru DL 4WD Hatchback in Cannonball Run, and a Mitsubishi Starion Turbo in Cannonball Run II. My memory is teh suck.

Lot'sa youg folks in the club. I was in college in '83. Also saw Blue Oyster Cult playing at Potsdam State College in NY that year

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Man, looks like the just put in the cut through from the front stretch to turn three at summit... funny thing. That same shot from Turn three looks pretty much the same, just taller trees older pavement... oh yea and Jefferson circuit in the background... maybe its not so much the same...

I was in 7th grade in 83....

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I was three.... I bet Stephen had to change one of my poopie diapers that year.

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It was a Subaru. There is a segment near the beginning of the movie(A japanese tv show) showing the car up close and interviewing the two drivers.

wish i had known what autoX was in '83. had a 78 mazda GLC. pretty nimble on the back roads.

the Stones in '81 @ JFK, The Who in "82 @ JFK, i can't say as i remember '83. Genesis maybe. The Duke Tour or The Abacab Tour. way too long ago.

In '83 I was working for the Statistics Dept. at NCSU. I also rebuilt a Subaru 1400 wet sleeve motor for a girl I was dating at the time. Even freshly rebuilt it was still slow. I do not think Art McDonald was a member back then.

To go back a little further when I came to town Fayettville Street was a street and I saw Greased Lightning at the movie theater on that street.

I saw Harry Chapin and later Arlo Guthrie at Stewart theater.

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Harry put on one hell of a show back in the day. i sat 15 ft fron him and his piano in '79 or so. saw Warren Zevon in the same place in '81 or so. (WEREWOLVES OF BLOOMSBURG) Warren was @ Charlie Goodnights in '97 i think. good show, seems Warren was tight with Hunter S. Thompson at the time and that seemed to be the basis of his show. might have been 350 people there.

also heard Jerry Rubin speak in '78 or so but can't say i remember much. something about a conspiracy regarding Abbie Hoffman. but that was before i had a car of my own.

Yes, Harvin Sauls. When I came along ('92), he had moved to Charlotte. He's probably still autoXing with CCR. He ran a girlie car Miata in CS with Eric, Reid Allred, Bowie Jr, & me in NCAC -- until we started beating him, after which he decide it needed to be a CSP car.

CS R. Tucker is Richard Tucker. He still lives in Greenville & still has that 914. We periodically made bets that, if I won, he'd bring Parker's BBQ for us to the next event. We only ate BBQ a few times. I called him before the G'ville event last year to try to get him to come run that event. He came out to the Sat night event & hung out for a while. Said he might bring the 914 out on Sun, but I think the prospect of 4000 deg heat might have kept him away!

BSP S. Vann is Stan Vann from eastern NC. I think he's posted on our Visitor forum a couple of times so he's still lurking about the THSCC fringes. When I put the new website up, he sent me all of his old H&Ts which I hope to someday scan & put up on the web for "historical purposes". I don't remember right off how far those go back so, Chuck, if you or Martyn have other old H&Ts, hang on to 'em so we can do the same with those.

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Wrong, moose breath! The car in the movie was indeed a Subaru. Compared to earlier Subarus, it looked almost normal. Of course, compared to a 2006 Tribeca, this looks normal:
( I found this picture here: http://usmb.net/gallery/Brochures )

And no, I wasn't in the club then. I joined the year after typewriters were invented.

Reviving a four year old thread here.

I recently captured some analog 8mm video to digital format of autocrossing back in 1986. I also have some video from Summit Point from that time period too I'll have to get on-line at some point. This is from a DC region charity autocross where we ran two side-by-side courses similar to today's ProSolo stuff. It was at the Landmark Shopping Center in Alexandria, and this lot is now a parking garage.

This video is of my 1972 Bavaria in a later incarnation that it was during its THSCC autox years in the early 80's (you can hear the intake roar from triple sidedraft Weber two-barrel carbs) with the suspension now well-sorted, and the engine at its peak (this was the "big six" BMW "M30" motor, 3.0L SOHC, built with higher comp pistons, Schrick cam, the Webers, Stahl headers, etc, etc).

The wheels/tires back then were 8"x16" Rial with 225/50-16 Goodyear Gatorback VR-S (basically the first R-comp tire, came with 5/32" tread and special compound). 16" wheels were the "hot ticket" back then and still pretty rare (i.e. the largest diameter available).

In this first video, at the end you can see "Mad Max" of the CCA DC chapter getting pissed off at hitting too many cones and then going berserk on the course in a 1981 528i...clearly showing why we called him Mad Max.

Unfortunately my early THSCC autox days were done before there was a thing called a camcorder , so no videos from then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD83gPP4Vis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_RM1PA_cKI

Chuck

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very cool! The Bavaria looked like it was a blast to drive, thanks for sharing!

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