Archive for February, 2010
Sunday, February 28th, 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 bring it back next week ready to run. Crusty is working his way through the engine [...]
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
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 out to conquer the Baja 1000 in a car that most people wouldn’t feel safe driving to the [...]
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
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 there’s nothing around you and all you can see is what the driving lights show you [...]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
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 are on the pallet and ready for shipping to Bradford Performance for a rebuild. Engine is [...]
