Tommy Suddard
Tommy Suddard GRM+ Memberand SonDork
3/22/10 6:03 p.m.
4Msfam
4Msfam New Reader
3/22/10 6:17 p.m.

All I see is Ken Block?

Kia_racer
Kia_racer Reader
3/22/10 6:22 p.m.

I also only see Ken Block.

ignorant
ignorant SuperDork
3/22/10 6:23 p.m.

ugh

Something posts on Autoblog or Jalopnik... Then 2 minutes later there are 5 threads here about it...

JoeyM
JoeyM Reader
3/22/10 6:24 p.m.
ignorant wrote: ugh Something posts on Autoblog or Jalopnik... Then 2 minutes later there are 5 threads here about it...

Yes, but you have to admit that it was pretty grassroots.

http://jalopnik.com/5497042/how-a-500-craigslist-car-beat-400k-rally-racers

maroon92
maroon92 SuperDork
3/22/10 6:28 p.m.
4Msfam said: All I see is Ken Block?

All I ever see is Ken Block....

redzcstandardhatch
redzcstandardhatch Reader
3/22/10 6:30 p.m.

wanna know more about how this is SO full of win?

his co-driver,Ben, only has one eye.

dead serious. ben crew'ed with me for my buddy (matt johnston, rally american 2005 gp2 national champ) back in 05 in maine. he lost an eye earlier in life to a bungee strap incident, and wears a patch, or has a glass eye. people said he'd NEVER co-drive because of depth perception issues.

i have slept in a bed with a WRC co-driver, and woke up to him spooning me. yikes.

ben rules too..super nice dude. kinda rambles a lot. haha

Tommy Suddard
Tommy Suddard GRM+ Memberand SonDork
3/22/10 6:53 p.m.

New readers weren't around for the Ken Block phase.

Sorry, move along.

paul
paul Reader
3/22/10 7:35 p.m.
redzcstandardhatch wrote: ...people said he'd NEVER co-drive because of depth perception issues. i have slept in a bed with a WRC co-driver, and woke up to him spooning me. yikes

Was the spooning due to depth perception issues, or was it more of a 'trains planes & automobiles" moment?...

ignorant
ignorant SuperDork
3/22/10 7:54 p.m.
Tommy Suddard wrote: New readers weren't around for the Ken Block phase. Sorry, move along.

I got it..

seeker589
seeker589 Reader
3/22/10 8:05 p.m.

I have a new rally hero! That guy has brass balls!!!

I thought Ken was cool cause he went to WRC as well as his rally duties in the US AND running a successful shoe biz.

Yea - I'm a Ken Block fan - Travis P., too.

Junkyard_Dog
Junkyard_Dog HalfDork
3/22/10 8:54 p.m.
seeker589 wrote: I have a new rally hero! That guy has brass balls!!

Brass is for Bob Costas. That dude has huge swingin' titanium cojones. "The back of the car slid off the road on the right and went off a bridge. Bill just kept on the gas and a well placed BMW trailing link caught the edge of the concrete bridge before the tire and somehow bounced us back on the road. According to the laws of physics it shouldn’t have been possible, yet we found ourselves on still on the road and still pushing hard." The co-driver too.

Raze
Raze HalfDork
3/22/10 9:09 p.m.
Junkyard_Dog wrote:
seeker589 wrote: I have a new rally hero! That guy has brass balls!!
Brass is for Bob Costas. That dude has huge swingin' titanium cojones. "The back of the car slid off the road on the right and went off a bridge. Bill just kept on the gas and a well placed BMW trailing link caught the edge of the concrete bridge before the tire and somehow bounced us back on the road. According to the laws of physics it shouldn’t have been possible, yet we found ourselves on still on the road and still pushing hard." The co-driver too.

Bill Caswell's balls are made from Chuck Norris's fists...

HiTempguy
HiTempguy Reader
3/22/10 9:12 p.m.
kinda rambles a lot

No, you're kidding?!

I got to have a long talk with Ben in November, when we partially blocked a stage that caused him and his driver to fall into a lake. Good times

Appleseed
Appleseed Dork
3/23/10 12:15 a.m.
Tommy Suddard wrote: New readers weren't around for the Ken Block phase.

That's was a phase?

seeker589
seeker589 Reader
3/24/10 9:09 p.m.
Appleseed wrote:
Tommy Suddard wrote: New readers weren't around for the Ken Block phase.
That's was a phase?

What Ken Block Phase? Details please.

njansenv
njansenv Reader
3/24/10 9:14 p.m.

Who's Ken Block?

Vigo
Vigo Reader
3/24/10 9:41 p.m.

aka 'the present'....

Tommy Suddard
Tommy Suddard GRM+ Memberand SonDork
3/24/10 10:30 p.m.
seeker589 wrote:
Appleseed wrote:
Tommy Suddard wrote: New readers weren't around for the Ken Block phase.
That's was a phase?
What Ken Block Phase? Details please.

For about a week straight, the Ken Block video would get posted a few times a day, every day on here. I think that video has actually seen the entire internet.

Appleseed
Appleseed Dork
3/25/10 1:43 a.m.
Vigo wrote: aka 'the present'....

Zackly!

poopshovel
poopshovel SuperDork
3/25/10 12:20 p.m.
njansenv wrote: Who's Ken Block?

srsly!!!!1!1!one.

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