Way back in 1996, I bought a brand, spankin’ new DSM. I had been walking into the salesman’s office to order up my new Jeep Wrangler, but was sidetracked by a beautiful, white 1997 Eagle Talon glistening in the showroom spotlights. I loved that car, and “Daisy” and I had a good run together – more than 12 years.

Somewhere shortly after the 10 year mark, I made some new friends who actually own a rally car and race it in the California Rally Series. Once I knew that rally was more than just the WRC in exotic places thousands of miles away from the center of the NASCAR universe, I knew I had to find myself a rally car project. That project car came to me in the form of a car I’d only heard mentioned on occasion, the Mitsubishi Galant VR4.

I drug 195/2000 home to Phoenix from Clovis, New Mexico with it’s second seized engine ready to be replaced. The progress towards 195 actually being a rally car has been slow, due to engine swaps, head gasket failures, and even a chance encounter with a moron who doesn’t fully understand traffic lights. Even so, despite how rough around the edges 195 is, I felt it would be hard for me to stuff such a rare car out in the desert southwest somewhere.

The solution to that concern was to stumble upon a very clean, very stock, well-preserved 92 GVR4. Just as I decided to find a rally car (that ended up being a GVR4) at the Prescott Rally in 2005, I first spotted 464 at the same event, three years later in 2008.

This site will be focused on the goings on with these two cars. One gets me to and from work reliably and will hopefully look nicer and nicer as time goes on. The other will evolve into the rally car it was meant to be and there will be a lot of dirt.

I’ll probably re-write this page a number of times…