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 car its annual paint job now, touching it up and adding decals before shipping to Montreal.

I got the decals stripped today and sanded down most of the body. Shawn’s coming by tomorrow to do more bondo and paint prep and at some point before the 250 we’ll do final painting.

Got a cool announcement planned for Monday.

Stripped for body work. 1117 is in back.

We’re gonna need more laptops.

Desert Dingo Racing’s Logistics Department held its first planning meeting in preparation for the Baja 1000. We had bbq’d tri-tip, potato salad, salad and lots of beer. And we discussed logistics. Figuring out where to set up shop this year (we had some equipment stolen in 2008), how to move chase trucks and people around, and mainly how to improve communications between the team and the car.

We’re looking to go with satellite pagers, since mostly what we need to know is where the car is and what it’s doing. We’ve used satellite phones but they’re expensive and the Iridium system gets overwhelmed by everyone making calls. We understand that the pagers keep trying to send their messages even if the satellite network is busy. That’s a tremendous help. More on these later.

No work on the car this weekend, so here’s a high def video documentary of a trophy truck running the Baja 500: