Rotary rallye driver from Oklahoma USA checking in ...

[Rallye Mad Mike]

Hi all! I'm M. E. "Mad Mike" Halley and 2017 marks my 40-year anniversary of driving in stateside stage rallye events. I started in RWD (a Chevy, a couple Peugeots and, later, Mitsubishi pickup trucks), claimed a couple SCCA national championships with a FWD VW New Beetle earlier this millennium, have dabbled in AWD (but really, where's the challenge?), but was so impressed with the rotaries (mostly RX7s but several RX2 and RX3s too) that ran stateside events back in the 70s and 80s that I decided my first bucket list item should be to rallye an RX7.
Fulfilling that quest led to the purchase of a 1980 RX7 rallye car against which I had competed a few times. By the time I got it home a few years ago the BP 12A was locked up and unrepairable so I swapped in a freshly built SP 13B Turbo 2 engine that is connected to an RX8 six speed transmission, but is likely to be sold before I get to race it.
Since that SA rallye car was unloaded at my place I've acquired a total of 8 FBs and two FCs but the current tally is one SA, 4 and a half FBs and the two FCs, four of which are stage rallye cars that have logbooks and "experience." The half FB donated its front clip, roof and a bunch of other parts to repair the GSL-SE I picked up from Northern California in October 2015 but I managed to flip it onto its roof during a shake down run at Missouri's Rally in the 100 Acre Wood in March 2016. It's now available for rent at 2017 stage events in the USA. FWIW, I believe it may be the only RX7 GSL-SE in existence without a sunroof.
The latest acquisition, another car I have run against in the past, has some history to it. It's a 1981 FB built and campaigned with support from Mazda by the fast Kiwi, Rod Millen back when FBs were brand new. The car claimed the 1981 SCCA ProRally national championship overall, the last two wheel drive car to do so. I have run some SCCA rallycross events (not like RX in Europe, here it's a solo run on a serpentine course delineated by rubber cones in a pasture or on a gravel lot) to knock the rust off and shake it down. Fortunately, it needs little to be rallye ready. It's still quick and noisy and plenty of fun despite having not been run in anger since 2002.
So that's it for now. I'm on FB (Mike Halley - a sideways white FB rallye car is my Cover Photo), as are a bunch of pics of all my rotary exploits over the past few years.
Thanks for the add, by the way!
Rgrds,
Mike ...

[spirit r]

Welcome Mike,

Rally Cross members are more and more in this forum. We all like their built posts and the amazing Technical pictures. It seems you are a very good photographer, so lets go on Mike.

[Hobbawobba]

Welcome to the forum! Sounds like some cool cars aye. I'm keen to see a few pictures

[codge]

Same Here.

Also welcome on board Mike.