Archive for August, 2009
Monday, August 31st, 2009
Desert Dingo Racing, now in HD
An extremely early birthday present from Roxanne came in the mail today. A custom Flip HD camera with a photo of 1107 printed on the front. We’ve been using a standard Flip for several years with decent results. We’ll test it at the SNORE 250 in early October and at the World Diabetes Congress later [...]
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Saturday, August 29th, 2009
We’re still in 3rd and up to 25th overall. Also, sanding
Shawn did this for about five minutes before I declared it “too hot” and we went in and played Baja on the xBox.
It’s bad enough racing in the heat, but when it’s 100 on the front porch and we (ok, Shawn) is sanding on a white car in the glaring sun. Well, there are limits. [...]
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
TrailGlow Lighting signs on as sponsor of Desert Dingo Racing
August 24 , 2009, Santa Cruz, Calif. –TrailGlow Lighting, a leading provider of high intensity lighting systems for the off road racing community, announced today that it is sponsoring Desert Dingo Racing’s 2009 off road racing season, including the Baja 1000 in Mexico in November.
Desert Dingo Racing campaigns a 1969 Volkswagen Beetle in off road [...]
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
Bondo heals all wounds
I am of the opinion that bondo is right up there with gravity, magnetism, subatomic attraction and duct tape when it comes to sticking to stuff.
Shawn came by today and worked his magic on 1107’s dents, including the rather large gouge I’m pretty sure I made trying to kick the jack off the car [...]
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
Biggest Bike Relay in the World
There are plenty of people working hard to promote diabetes awareness and raise money for research.
This morning, AC Cyclebetes started their relay across the Canada from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, covering over 10,000 kilometers. Their goal: to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundaion and to raise awareness about diabetes.
This quest started when [...]
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
Stripping for Montreal
Last photo of the old decals before being stripped off for painting.
We’ve got a really tight schedule between the SNORE 250 Oct. 2-4 and shipping the car to Montreal for the World Diabetes Congress Oct. 18-22 and then heading south for the Baja 1000 the second week in November. As a result, we’re giving the [...]
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
Word in Your Hand
Last fall, prior to the Baja 1000, we took the car to Holly Oak Elementary School in San Jose where Ms. Battistella’s students painted their palms in red, blue or gold paint and pressed them on the fenders, decorating the car with their handprints. It was absolutely beautiful.
Those of you touched by diabetes know the [...]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Bilstein and the Ensenada package
We love our Bilstein shocks.
We’ve been with Bilstein since we started building the car and Joel and his team with the Off Road Motorsports group have been tremendously supportive of our efforts. They just upgraded us to their “Ensenada Package” for the KC Hilites race and the results were great.
So when Joel asked us if [...]
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Sunday, August 16th, 2009
Resurrecting 1117
Don’t call it a comeback…
There is a growing chance that we’ll race a revitalized 1117 at SNORE’s KARTEK Western Desert Challenge on November 14. The situation is that we’ll use 1107 for the South Point SNORE 250 on October 3-4, then haul it back, spruce it up and put it on a truck trailer for [...]
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Definitely looking like the distributor
1117 and 1107, united again.
Scott and Bob came by Friday and spent five hours doing all manner of things with 1107’s electrical system. They eventually took it back to Bob’s place to test it on his cherry ride. Scott was back this morning (I’d trickle-charged the battery overnight) and we (ok, Scott) had the car [...]
