Archive for July, 2007
Monday, July 30th, 2007
Work Day Eight
Cary, Man of Steel…er…chromoly.We officially started work on the roll cage this weekend with Cary bending the ceremonial “first pipe” or whatever he calls it. Skid brought the transmission shipping box over and bolted the first tranny into it for delivery to Transwerks. Shawn, officially designated our “body guy” worked on body panels, prepping them […]
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Monday, July 30th, 2007
The UPS Guy
The UPS guy delivered three boxes in three days. Each box was from Camelbak.
“What did you guys do, buy shares in the company?” he asked as he lugged the biggest box up the porch steps on Friday.
I pointed to the Vdub in the driveway and said, “Camebak is a sponsor for our race team. See […]
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel
Read the story…
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
First media coverage
The Santa Cruz Sentinel gives advance warning of a piece on Desert Dingo Racing. Click here for the multimedia experience .
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007
Camelbak onboard as a sponsor
Camelbak’s VP of Marketing and Product Management, Mac Tillman, has graciously offered us hydration systems, extra tubing and equipment and sugar free Elixer for the race car and chase vehicles.
I’ve always been a big fan of Camelbak (I own five) and contacted them just to see whether they’d developed any special systems for race cars. […]
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Monday, July 16th, 2007
First request for an article
An important part of why we’re doing this is using the team to spread the word on having folks get regular checkups and for those checkups to include tests for diabetes. I got in touch with Gisela Ayala, an amazing woman in Mexico City who heads up communications for the the Federaci
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
Methelyne Chloride
Since it was 110 degrees out and we weren’t going to be able to make it up to the surprise birthday party in San Francisco, I figured this would be a perfect day to start stripping 1117 in preparation for the art car contest.
The guy at Felton Hardware recommended this stuff that folks use to […]
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
1,300 miles
Like driving halfway across the U.S. off road.
Baja Racing News just posted a rough map of the 2007 Baja 1000 course. Unbelievable.
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Monday, July 9th, 2007
This year’s course
Skid admires someone else’s handiwork.
Skid drew our attention to an announcement of this year’s course. I’m calling dibs on the paved parts right now.
And Cary sent over more photos from Sunday’s work day.
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Sunday, July 8th, 2007
Slowly but surely
Skid and Electra measure the travel on the 30-ton jackWork Day Seven had Skid, Scott, Carrie, Charlie and Cary (since it was his place) in the house.
Carrie and Charlie attacked the pan, which we think is finally stripped. Scott welded two new jack points for the underside of the frame. Cary fabricated a mount […]
