Every office cubicle should have a pair of rusty VW rims.

Remember those two rusty rims that Larry Zimmerman donated to us? Now they look like this:

A few minutes with the grinder and another few coats of Rustoleum gloss white and they are race ready. Thanks again, Larry. We really appreciate it. (FYI, Larry drives the bright yellow Baja bug around Felton, so wave if you spot him).

Richard tow-barring 1107 over to his place.

We’ve got a few things to do to get 1107 prepped for the Hawthorne 250. Replace the pedal assembly, weld in a new exhaust pipe to the spark arrestor, install a new brake fluid reservoir (we sort of melted the old one while doing some welding), and figure out where to reposition the shovel and the jack handle.

Richard’s doing the majority of the work. I’m going to be wire-brushing three rims, two of which which were donated to us by Larry Zimmerman, who’s got some great VWs in his barn, as you might recall. He dropped a couple off at the office. Thank you Larry.

Crusty and Scott, hauling the mail at the Fallon 250.

This is a screen capture from the Bower Media coverage of the Fallon 250. Many thanks to Two Larrys & A Megan Racing for bringing this to my attention.

Here’s their video of the race. The good stuff happens 41 seconds in:

Everyone uses their gas bbq grill as a mobile work bench, right?

I pulled everything out of 1107 Sunday and started cataloging what needs to be done to prep for the Hawthorne 250. Main things are fixing the oil leak (probably a big deal), replacing the brake fluid reservoir (it leaked everywhere and we had very little brake pressure), checking the wiring on our transponder and installing a replacement spare (Scott and I really taco’d one on the last lap of the Fallon 250 night race).

A handful of photos here.

Who are you people?!

For a while there, iPhone downloads had a slight lead but for whatever reason, Android downloads have gone through the roof. Here’s a special shout out to whomever is following us from Campina Grande, Brazil.

Team meeting tomorrow night at Bob’s place. Something interesting might come of it.

I credit clean living with our two point stranglehold in season points.

VORRA posted season points post Fallon 250 and for some reason that probably requires long math, we’re still in first place, albeit by two whole points. Hawthorne should be a fun time.

If you can close your eyes and imagine Bob “Busboy Bob” Russell as Ken Block and me as Alex Gelsomino (except without the cool accent), this is pretty much what it sounds like inside the car when we’re racing. Also, we’re not going that fast, we’re not usually around trees, and our car doesn’t look anywhere that cool. We do drive through cattle guards, though.

The VORRA Hawthorne 250 is Labor Day weekend.

I’m not sure what’s worse: the dust devil that ripped through our camp, pinning Crusty under a shade structure, or me being so delirious from the heat that I keep filming rather than rescue him.

The Koenig Racing Total Chaos team is the best. I greatly appreciate their friendship and support. So I’m shocked…SHOCKED…that they have to blow past us in this otherwise awesome-tastic video from the VORRA Fallon 250 desert night race.

That’s us at about 2:19 into the video getting our doors blown off. We’re the ones who look like one of those flying saucers from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Anyone can show you race footage. We’re showing you the behind the scenes footage of what happens before the race footage. Mostly its banging on the hood of the car and people pointing at you telling you where to put the car.

Richard and I returning from tech inspection at the VORRA Fallon 250 desert night race. Playing with the HD Flip camera. Steven Spielberg, eat your heart out.