Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Transmission in hand

Bob and Richard doing the heavy lifting…
We picked up our rebuilt transmission from Steve Bradford with Bradford Racing Products in Prunedale. He used the Super Beetle case and most if its innards, and modified the gearing per SCORE spec. Steve (who’s won the Baja 1000 in the past) and his son Travis also donated a [...]

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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Herding cats for the BAP

Seth “I *am* Logistics” Schrenzel is starting to marshall the troops for the Battle at Primm Feb. 13-15 in Southern Nevada. We shouldn’t, technically, need a chase truck, (three laps on a 10 mile course), but we still need to figure out who’s going and what we’ll do if the car breaks between the Saturday [...]

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Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Getting ready for the Battle at Primm

We’re ramping up for the Battle at Primm Feb. 13-15 out in southern Nevada. Richard took our transmissions to Steve Bradford with Bradford Racing Products in Prunedale. We expect to have at least one transmission ready to go shortly.
Richard also spent a day with Robert (1110) out on Bureau of Land Management land out [...]

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Friday, December 26th, 2008

Flying Bug

Who doesn’t get tired of looking at pictures of a flying Bug? This one from the driver’s side.
There is consensus building that the team will forego the San Felipe 250 and instead race the Battle at Primm in February.
Thanks to Zach Zander for shooting the photo and Bryan Grant for forwarding it to [...]

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