Archive for March, 2007
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Introducing the team - Mike Aquino
Still working on the website, but the team bios are starting to flow in. The Bug is in Skid’s garage, so I figure he deserves to go first.
Mike “Skid” AquinoCo-founder, driver, wrencher, visionary, cat-herderSkid is an experienced motorcycle rider/racer with many years experience in radical modification, chopping and bobbing of various modes of transportation. An […]
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
Silt - Nature’s way of saying "You’re not worthy"
We figure our greatest two concerns are going to be big rocks and silt. Big rocks we can probably drive around, considering all we have to do is average 25 mph to finish the Baja 1000 in 40 hours. Silt is what concerns us.
Sure we’ll have a tow rope, but that’s counting on someone being […]
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
This won’t be us
Another video clip, this one from the 2007 Baja 250. It was bad enough I was getting car sick just watching it, but the last 15 seconds put it over the top.
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Monday, March 12th, 2007
More hott VW racing
Ok, so we plan to shell out for secondary clamps for the trunk and hood.
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Sunday, March 11th, 2007
Craigslist rules…again!
I contacted a guy selling a complete set of stock wheels on Craigslist and asked him if he was interested in any of our take offs in trade. He needed the window regulators and a couple of windows so did the swap.
Now I’m looking for the best deal on BF Goodrich All Terrain TA […]
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
Class 11 desert racing video
Man, if the sound of a bunch of stock VWs engines revving doesn’t get your heart pumping…
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Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
Work Day One
Work Day One was pretty successful. Cary showed up with a body dolly that he welded together just this morning, we got the body off and started work stripping down the frame in preparation for welding the roll cage and reinforcing the frame welds.
We’ve been joined by Scott, who has actually raced in the desert, […]
