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Damn you Ken Block for being awesome. Ford picked up Ken and is moving him out of the states and into the WRC. I don’t know why Subaru couldn’t have done this but thanks for Ford for stepping up. Monster World Rally Team

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17 Dec, 2009

I now no longer own a Subaru

Posted by: Chris In: Mazda MP3

Well for the first time since 2004 I no longer own a Subaru and don’t have plans to buy another. :( We sold Robin’s Outback in favor of owning a cheaper car outright. We only lost $36 on the sale so I think we walked away in good shape. I’ve already bought my self a [...]

11 Dec, 2009

Just Bought a Mazda Protege MP3

Posted by: Chris In: Mazda MP3

Saturday – Bought a 2001 MP3 with some nasty clunking in the rear suspention an no other obvious problems. $$$discount$$$$ Sunday – Joined The Mazdas247.com forum Monday – Figured out what parts and where to buy them Tuesday – Ordered new Tokico blues shocks/strus, AWR Endlinks rear, Sway bar bushings all around, new brake pads Friday [...]

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29 Jan, 2009

A tribute to my old car and lots of snow

Posted by: Chris In: Subaru

20 Sep, 2008

Flooded Saab

Posted by: Chris In: Personal|Saab

Last weekend was my buddy Paul’s wedding. We where up in Valpo and staying with my parents, Got home at midnight and parked in front of their house on the street. It rained all night and apparently overwhelmed the storm drain system. There was about 4-5 feet of flood water on my parents street… right [...]

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22 Aug, 2008

Custom Bike Rack for my new Truck

Posted by: Chris In: F-150

So I just bought the F-150 last thursday and on friday I made a bike rack for the bed. Luckly Ford had put in tie downs in the bed at both ends. I used the mounting holes for those and built brackets to fit out of flat stock. I had my buddy, Willy weld it [...]

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21 Aug, 2008

My New Truck

Posted by: Chris In: F-150|Subaru

Well I finally found a new truck that suited my needs. I spent almost 6 months looking for something that was both versatile and practical for a good price. I finally found this 2004 Ford F-150 Lariat. It is a Super-Crew Cab so it seats 5 comfortably yets still has the power to get the [...]

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13 May, 2008

Selling the Subbie

Posted by: Chris In: Automotive|Subaru

2000 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS, 5-speed manual, engine: EJ25, AWD, Silver exterior, Black Interior I’m Selling the Subaru for 7500 obo It currently had 130k miles on it, but the engine was removed at 110k and I broke it down to the short block, cleaned it and reassembled with new gaskets. The exterior has some [...]

03 Mar, 2008

Two cars in 5 days

Posted by: Chris In: Automotive|Family

In the last five days we have gotten two new cars. Robin had been driving the Eclipse I got a few years ago for just 600 bucks. We decided to sell it and bought a 2003 Saab 93 from CarMax in anticipation of the sale. Well we couldn’t sell it but we had found someone [...]

<a href=”http://www.crump25rs.com”><img src=”images/graphitelightthumb.jpg” class=”left” alt=”TheSubaru” /></a>I’m working towards arranging sponsorship deals for the subaru going into this race/show season. The plans for the car now are to get it repainted to a nice graphite color and to put on the vielside body kit I have for it. Also I am looking for sponsorship on a [...]


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Chris Crumpacker is a 27 year old Indiana native that has the great fortune to marry the love of his life, Robin.

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