Archive | August, 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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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