Local Gumball Run: gauging interest. Ca$h prize

KOUmotorsports is considering sponsoring a local Gumball Run. Spring is a possibility but I'm loath to wait through all those months of hype. So we're wondering if there's the interest to pull this off in the next month. Say the last real drivable day of the year.

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Here are the highlights:

$1000 (one thousand dollars) cash prize to the winner.
'Race' from Peoria to KOUmotorsports in Champaign/Urbana.

$75 entry fee

Disclaimer: We assume that everyone will follow all local laws/regulations, etc. However, we won't have the staff to actively monitor your driving.
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Is there enough interest for us to make this happen?

Can't say that I much care if they obey them. For legal reasons I have to "expect" everyone to do so.

For all I know there is some undiscovered route that takes you from P-Town to Chambana in 20 min flat.

well,

I'd be up for it but.....

1) I'd either loose my driver's license or

2) I'd kill myself in my car trying to beat spy.

The prize money should be enough to take care of tickets and bail.

*IF* you win.

I WOULD be up to it, but i can't afford $75 or a ticket, or a license suspension.

but your chances of winning are zilch if you get stopped.

From my friend's apartment on 1st and John in Chambana (U of I) to my front doorstep: 45 minutes. I $hit you not!! And in the L'o'ser of all cars!!

Who wants to beat that record?

MY house, to my neighbors house.

Less than a second.

I did urbana to ohare in 2:18, in the snow a few days before new years


Dave Netter can verify, he was riding shotgun, we saw 30 cars in the ditch on the way up

Who said anything about stopping? I can still win the race with the cops on my pooper. Sirens sound like motivation to me.

and then two miles down the road, its broken down on the side of the road...


Silly Mitsubishis.

I'd probably do it.

hey if you cant laugh at yourself you have no business laughing at others

and I laugh at myself all the time!


and not in a good way

Yeah, until t-case blows up or the cylinders run lean. Hmm...sounds like a run-of-the-mill DSM to me. How is the 3000 nowadays, Spy? Oh that's right, its getting water pumped out of the footwell.

sucks that the authorities know about this already

Yes, I'm sure the authorities are currently monitoring every road in a 24 hour sweep cracking down on the potential legal Gumball Rally that might happen sometime between two weeks ago and June.



Plus, they help make it something of an obstacle course.

hmmmm... i wonder who YOU could be? i smell some bogus crap.

Spy, you should fear the fwd. We all know and love the freeway DOMINANCE! I'm in. Let me know when and where.