TjRubley.com

I’ve already listed his e24 Alpina B7, BMW e12 m535i, e12 Alpina B7, Mitsubishi Evolution 8, BMW e24 M6, and MGB-GTC for sale cars. And I received an email from him yesterday to let me know that all of his Craigslist ads have been updated. Here’s the Portland Craigslist URL for cars from White Salmon. His cars are obvious standouts. Like these new additions since my original posts:

1985 Ferrari Testarossa for sale w/ 22k miles. As a product of the 80’s, there is no doubt that a well sorted Ferrari Testarossa is in the top 10 acquisitions in my Powerball fantasy. This one’s already had the 30k mile engine-out service completed. Time to check my ticket

1985 Ferrari Testarossa, Early American specification car with high mounted drivers side mirror. Red with Tan leather. Excellent condition inside and out, low miles for it’s age. Just had 30K engine out service performed last year. All records from new 3 owners (including me). Comes with 2 extra new TRX tires, set of new Good Year track slicks (never used) and extra set of 15″ non metric alloy Ferrari rims with slightly used tires. Also car cover. Runs drives excellent! Own a supercar of the 80’s and get looks where ever you go! Car is located in the Gorge one hour east of Portland on I-84. Email for more information or photos. Thanks for looking!

1984 e30 320i TC Baur Cabriolet. This gray market import has many Hartge upgrades that are very rare aftermarket pieces these days. At $6500 this is a great bargain for any BMW e30 fanatic.

1984 BMW 320i Baur TC Cabriolet. Rare European spec BMW. Very good condition and runs drives excellent. Had new clutch installed 2 months ago. Has rare Hartge upgrades (suspension, wheels, steering wheel, shift knob, front shock tower strut). This is a very unique and fun car to drive but I have too many cars and something needs to go to a new home. I might be interested in a partial trade for another Marque (Healey, Lotus, Jaguar, Porsche) or something else interesting. Email for more details or photos. Thanks for looking!

Frank, if I hadn’t promised my wife a remodel on the house, at least one of those Alpina’s would be finding a spot in my garage. Good luck with your collection and please feel free to add comments if you would like to provide additional information. And naturally, if you need me to come by and keep one of them warm, you let me know!

If your car deserves to be listed on TjRubley.com, send me an email with the details. Over 10,000 motoring enthusiast search-related hits per month can’t be wrong

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Another great low mileage survivor sent to me by the owner — the original owner!

1986 535i on RoadFly

UPDATE: Car sold for $11k and is headed to Irvine. Congrats on the sale!

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Autoblog is reporting that the MotoGP is coming to Indy next year. Too bad the same post reveals that F1 is leaving Indy for the time being. Glad I got to see it before it was gone! But with my folks living less than 2 hours away from the speedway, I’m going to have to make this trip for MotoGP!

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I know what you’re thinking, but my co-driver from Larison Rock has started his own blog, and you’ve got to help out your buddies by linking to them right?!

TravelEd on the Dodge Charger Rental Car

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Bringatrailer.com spotted this GTi for sale on the Vortex with only 30k original miles. $10k is a bit steep for my taste, but this really is a modern classic.

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With day 1 now in the books, a few facts have been established:

- I’m slow! My best time today was 2 minutes 21 seconds, which is 5 seconds off my best time from 2005.
- The Race Rabbit has a new personal best at the hill at the hands of first-timer-to-Larison Fast Eddie GTi (My buddy Ed to the rest of us!) Ed pulled out a 2 minute 14 second run, on his second run ever at the hill! My hat is off to you sir, and I will do my best to get close tomorrow!!
- {UPDATE} The Oakridge, Oregon, Best Western Motel, has vastly improved their high speed internet which has made this live blogging possible. Thank you!!

Only one tragedy at the hill today as the Kipperman Datsun 240 suffered an off and bent some very expensive looking parts in the left wheelwell. But he is fine and his car looked like it could’ve really been much much worse — and anyone who has seen this bad ass, perfect, V-8 swapped monster knows how nice this car is. I hope he can return it to glory again soon!

And fast time of the day goes to Sonny, who ripped off a 1 minute 50 second run in a modified (duh!) 1984 Corvette Convertible! Stunning as sub 2 minute runs are celebrated as a major accomplishment. Shaving off a full ten seconds from that feat is nearly unheard of. Congratulations (You’re CRAZY!!)

Pics will be coming shortly to this post and if I can pull it off, I might even get a video up.

{UPDATE: Video is now up}

{And as you can probably tell from the tone of this post, we’ve already been to the Saturday ‘pizza’ party at Big Mountain Pizza in Oakridge }

The Race Rabbit

Sonny’s ride back down after setting the record.

Kipperman Datsun 240, it’s incredible!

Custom video camera mount in our Volkswagen. I know, you’re jealous you didn’t think of this

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I’ve owned PS1 and PS2 just to play the Gran Turismo series. Hurry up and release this so I have a reason to get a PS3!

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Hear a rattling sound between 4-6k rpm on your CBR 600 F4? Sound like a ring of keys jingling below the tank? Could be the cam chain tensioner.

Here’s a handful of threads on the diagnosis:
TwoWheel Forum on CCT
F4i Cam problems on TwoWheel Forum
The joys of the F4i cam tensioner on Sportbikes.ws
F4 Buzzing sound on SportBikeWorld

And the CBR F4i Cam Chain Tensioner (CCT) replacement and upgrade thread on CBRWorld

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Ad states it’s a complete restoration.

1973 BMW 2002 Baur for sale on Roadfly

I like 2002’s and especially the drop top variants. But is a restored baur really going to fetch more than $12-14k?

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Today I saw this post on Boing Boing about an electric Porsche 914 project at MIT. While it certainly sounds like their project has more sophisticated batteries, here in Corvallis we see this Electric 914 all the time!

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