Archive | February, 2010

Prepping for Prairie City

Ricardo demonstrates his superior penmanship.

We’ve got three weeks til our season opener race at Prairie City and it finally stopped raining long enough for us to get some work done on 1107. Bob grabbed the engine and promised to …

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Feature on Desert Dingo Racing in The Sporting Life

Brett Svatek did a piece on the team and I spent most of my time talking about eating.

INTERVIEW: Jim Graham – Desert Dingo Racing
The Sporting Life, February 24, 2010
Jim Graham and his Desert Dingo racing team set …

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Night racing is a whole ‘nother animal

At night, in Baja, sometimes the conversation turns to muskrats.

It’s tough to describe what it’s like to be strapped into an off road race prepped ’69 VW Beetle at night for hours on end in the Baja 1000 when …

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March of the 11s


There’s gotta be enough good parts between the two of these for one good tranny.

The weather’s been so bad we haven’t had much chance to work on 1107, but we’ve got our fingers crossed for this weekend. Both transmissions …

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