Archive for January, 2009
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Evolution of the car
More work tomorrow on the car to get it ready for the Battle at Primm. A perfect time to do a retrospective on the evolution of the car.
Skid bought it for $300 from a guy who was about to have it hauled to a junk dealer, apparently because his landlord thought it was an eyesore. [...]
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Three weeks to Battle at Primm and we’re hard at work
It’s three weeks to Battle at Primm and we’re working like crazy to get the car ready. Scott, Bob, Richard, Cary, Skid, Shawn and I showed up at Creech’s mountaintop retreat today. We installed the transmission, then the engine, then got the electrical and hoses connected, put in a new steering damper and fired her [...]
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Transmission in hand
Bob and Richard doing the heavy lifting…
We picked up our rebuilt transmission from Steve Bradford with Bradford Racing Products in Prunedale. He used the Super Beetle case and most if its innards, and modified the gearing per SCORE spec. Steve (who’s won the Baja 1000 in the past) and his son Travis also donated a [...]
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Herding cats for the BAP
Seth “I *am* Logistics” Schrenzel is starting to marshall the troops for the Battle at Primm Feb. 13-15 in Southern Nevada. We shouldn’t, technically, need a chase truck, (three laps on a 10 mile course), but we still need to figure out who’s going and what we’ll do if the car breaks between the Saturday [...]
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Getting ready for the Battle at Primm
We’re ramping up for the Battle at Primm Feb. 13-15 out in southern Nevada. Richard took our transmissions to Steve Bradford with Bradford Racing Products in Prunedale. We expect to have at least one transmission ready to go shortly.
Richard also spent a day with Robert (1110) out on Bureau of Land Management land out [...]
