Under continuing pressure from my housemate, and having no place to store it and not enough time to work on it, I put the rally car up for sale.

Realistically speaking, Northern California is just about the best place to be to get into roadracing (due to wide availability of racetrack venues, the car-friendly weather year-round, sheer number of racing clubs, vendors, etc.), and about the worst place to be for rallying: events are far away (and the nearest ones are reputed “car breakers”), laws make it extremely problematic to register a rally-prepped car (as required). So maybe it’s just as well that I focus my efforts on the former, for the time being…