• By Murilee Martin
    May 10, 2009 2:00 PM 3,352
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    Tire Chains And Lucas Electrics In California's Gold Country: The 2009 Snowball Rally

    From the same folks who brought us the California Melee rally, here's the Snowball Rally. Prolific tipster and LeMons Assistant Perpetrator TheEastBayKid drove his '76 BMW 2002 and shot some nice photos for us.

    The Sacramento-to-Tahoe Snowball is open to pre-1974 sports and touring cars (the rules specifically prohibit forklifts and steamrollers) and offers participants the joy of climbing the Sierra Nevada mountains on funky back roads during snow season. Much Jalopnik-approved machinery took part, including at least one Opel GT, the usual cast of beater seasoned Alfa Romeos, some MGs, etc.

    Snowball Rally 2009 Part 1




    Snowball Rally 2009 Part 2



    Along the way, the rallyers passed the kind of mountain junkyard we dream about. Citroëns were just part of the goodness.

    Gold Country Junkyard



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