Street Rod on Street Corsa

First steps

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New Game: your name, then a setting

The game saves as you go.

The garage: every place is a button round your car

You start with $10,000 (on Normal) and no car.

Car dealers (garage, bottom left): drive to a lot, pick a car, BUY IT. Or look in the Newspaper for private sellers.
Gas station: fill the tank. Fuel and oil carry over between races.
Go race!: pick a diner and challenge someone, or enter an invitation.
Back in the garage, spend your winnings on parts.

Days run from 8:00 to 22:00. Everything takes time: driving, shopping, racing, wrenching.
Calendar → End Day skips to tomorrow morning.
Overnight, shops restock, rivals race each other and new races are posted.

Career: pick a victory path

Open Career (top right) and press Pursue on a victory path, for example:

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Car dealers: pick a lot and drive out

Everything starts in your garage. Trips take time: far places can’t be done in one day.

Place	What for
Car dealers	Buy cars. Lots come and go; a closing lot has a sale.
Newspaper	Cars and parts from private sellers and rivals. Sell your own car here.
Part dealers	Specialists, speed shops, tyre shops and junkyards. Stock is limited. Mail order has everything, takes 3 days.
Machine shop	On the part dealers’ map. Bore, grind, port: leave the part, it comes back days later.
Gas station	Fuel, oil, a wash. The attendant tells you what’s worn.
Paint booth	New colour. Fix rust and dents first (Repairs).
Go race!	Diners, the street, invitations, Free Run, Test & Tune.
Your cars	Your warehouse. TAKE THIS CAR brings one into the garage.

The Newspaper: private sellers, rivals, parts

A parts shop: what's on the shelves, the clerk at the counter

Press Sell next to the car’s name:

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Your car in the garage

Parts view: the car turns see-through, the shelf on the left, the engine on the right

Parts come off in order, like a real car: the game tells you what’s in the way.

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Go race: invitations, Free Run, Test & Tune and the streets

Press Go race! in the garage.

The diners: each has its regulars and a horsepower class

Diners: pick a racer, a race and a bet. Each diner has a horsepower class; the fast ones won’t race a slow car.
The street (CRUISE THE STREETS at a diner): wait at the curb, someone pulls up and offers a race.
Invitations: events with prizes and entry rules.
Free Run and Test & Tune: practice, nothing at stake.

Drag: a quarter mile. Can be a bracket race: run quicker than your dial-in and you lose.
Road race: a lap of a circuit.
Time attack: three laps, best lap wins.

Jumping the start is no contest. Quitting a race counts as a loss.