With that much power and full-time 4-wheel-drive, acceleration was eye-watering. The 6R4 was capable of sprinting from mph in 3. The top speed was dependent on the chosen final drive ratios, but the transmission itself was interesting. The first four gears were effectively close-ratio gear-sets, while the fifth gear is exceptionally tall. This allowed plenty of flexibility in tight and twisting competition but allowed the Metro to stretch its legs on open ground.
The good news here is that the MG has recently undergone a mechanical refresh, and runs and drives well. It also features the tires and suspension settings for tarmac rallying, meaning that it could conceivably be used for circuit work. That was true in Group B competition, so the interior of the Metro is utilitarian. Beyond the body-hugging seats, there are no creature comforts. As is the case with the rest of the vehicle, the interior presents well for a rally car of this era.
The driver has everything that he needs at his fingertips, including a full array of gauges, a brake balance adjuster, and a stubby and robust shifter for that Hewland transmission. Rally navigators have a tough gig and have to be masters of multi-tasking. They must read pace notes and convey this information clearly and concisely to the driver. In the 6R4, they also performed an additional duty.
All of the electrical fuses and circuit breakers are located on the dash directly in front of the navigator. In the event of an electrical fault, it was the duty of the navigator to attend to these problems and to reset circuit breakers. The life of a navigator is definitely a busy one.
We will never see the likes of the Group B rally cars again because they have been deemed to be too fast for safe competition. Too many competitors and spectators lost their lives because of this fact. The death of three spectators at the Portuguese Rally did the category enormous damage. On December 31st, , Group B competition was no more.
Therefore, someone is set to become the new owner of a unique piece of motorsport history. Running engine or rust free not necessary. Prefer southern US Contact. The first car that passed us completely and totally out of control it seemed!! Thought about importing one but there was no way whatsoever.
This piece is awesome!! Colonial Dr. First, a little about Perkins. She's the former executive director of TreeFolks, an Austin nonprofit dedicated to planting trees in urban and rural areas. She left that job in without knowing that a year later, she would be running a pod school for the neighborhood kids.
Her children are 11 and Reverie Books in South Austin has a reading area and a children's area. Addie Broyles. Perkins has a masters degree in forestry and grew up in the "middle of nowhere Louisiana. She eventually went back to school and became a university instructor and researcher, focusing first on swamplands and then on watersheds.
After working in environmental regulation at a water treatment plant in Austin, Perkins became the executive director of TreeFolks in During all these life and career changes, Perkins was making an annual pilgrimage to the Kerrville Folk Festival.
It used to be where you'd show up with your CD, and they'd put you on staff. Reverie Books sells a variety of notebooks, notecards, stickers, magnets and other items that aren't books, but most of the store is dedicated to books. That's where she met David Schunck, a Vietnam war vet turned "peace-loving hippie" who ran Good Buy Books for decades. A year-old Vietnam vet and a something lesbian, it turns out they have quite a lot to say to each other.
They are both songwriters who see books as a way of building community. Schunck still has some shelves of used books in the back of the store, and the rest of the shelves are filled with contemporary and classic books, zines and non-traditional titles, puzzles, a few well-curated toys, notecards, magnets and other gifts.
And it's working. A customer left this note in Perkins' suggestion box. Perkins reaches over to the wall by her computer to peel off a handwritten note on a blue notecard. I feel seen, heard and represented," the patron wrote. She keeps this reminder by her desk so she can remember why she opened the store in the first place.
It's not nothing," she says. My wife is the breadwinner, and I'm not used to being someone who doesn't. Perkins points out the connection between starting a bookstore and spending all those years on the road as a singer-songwriter. She says the whole family has been on board with the project, especially now that the sense of community is building. Having just come from the non-profit world, Perkins is constantly thinking about giving back to the community. In her little corner of the parking lot in front, she's hosting some outdoor events that will eventually move indoors once COVID subsides, where the rolling bookshelves can make way for chairs.
Her neighbors at Captain Quackenbush's Coffeehouse next door have brought her pie, and Austin author Lauren Hough is hosting a presentation there on Friday night.
Customers can also rent out the space for a private shopping session or a date night, including cheese, wine and charcuterie. Perkins says that hers is one of many indie bookstores that have opened during the pandemic, which from a commercial perspective seems counter-intuitive. But when thinking from the point of view of what's best for the community, it's exactly what we needed.
Addie Broyles is a longtime food writer, who wrote for the Austin American-Statesman for 13 years. Close Window. Dallas-Fort Worth. Riverside-San Bernardino. Columbia, South Carolina. Charleston-North Charleston. Colorado Springs. Victorville-Hesperia-Apple Valley. Palm Bay-Melbourne. Daytona Beach-Port Orange. Indio-Cathedral City-Palm Springs. Augusta-Richmond County.
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