Targa NZ

[PL510*Jeff]

It was an electrical failure in the circuit panel. It was a brand new garage with full 3 phase wiring and fully insulated and lined with grooved wooden paneling. The inside was an inferno in minutes. My newer garage, being built now will have a nice fire sprinkler system, the only real effective protection.

Gimbal - been following your loss of a GT saga. As has been said by many, glad no one was injured.

And as a fire protection Contractor for over 4 decades, I applaud your wise choice of installing a fire sprinkler system in your new garage.

For a fist full of dollar, you can have the insurance of the "on-site" fireman to defend against a fire, which hopefully will never happen again, and control, contain or extiguish the fire before the fire department arrives.

[skyrex]

Don't know how I missed this thread.

Two things.....one, love the orange GT. Looks like you guys had a heck of a time down there.

Second, Gimbal I am glad you got another GT and are rounding her into the shape you want her. I know you will have better luck with this one.

[kmillen]

OK, we finally got one of the video's up of an entire stage...

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/N...ord_231260.htm

[B O N Y]

Wow, second time today I needed the 5 gal Aloha bag.... great vid.

[fjpikul]

Just curious, why are the bright (long, high beam) lights on?

[kmillen]

Just curious, why are the bright (long, high beam) lights on?

The rally requires that you have all of your lights on while in the race stages. I don't know the reason for the rule though, that's just what they mandate. If we don't follow that rule then we receive a time penalty for each stage the lights are not on.

[kmillen]

One more video...

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/N...ord_282401.htm

This was one of our best stages. We passed 4 cars in this stage and we actually beat every other car in the top 10. We were 5th quickest through there.

[PL510*Jeff]

Thanks Kyle.

[PILOTJPW1]

Oh man that was awesome. Looks like you were hooked up good. Seemed like very few tail slides.

Where do we find the results?

[kmillen]

For a full run down on the results visit targa.co.nz.

We finished 8th place overall, we were the first father-son team, first Ford, and first V8. We were very happy with the result. Actually for the first time I sat down and analyzed the stage times and in a few of the stages we actually beat the overall winner's of the event.