Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
Less than a week to SNORE’s Caliente 250
Hi, I’m Bob and I’ll be your driver today…
We’re starting to button up 1107 for SNORE’s Caliente 250 next Saturday. The front and rear bumpers, now with reinforcement so that they don’t crumple like tinfoil when you try to use them as a jack point, are installed. Richard returned from Bradford Racing Products in Prunedale [...]
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Line up for the Mint 400 announced
Cursed road hooligan “Uncle” Ed Mahoney posted the starting lineup for Stock VWs (with his own commentary) for the upcoming Mint 400 in Vegas. As it stands we’re fifth off the line:
#1121 Garey Leavitt (Clean Air, Welcome Back Kotter)
#1106 Jeff Lee (Doing Good For Dogs, Eating Light Dust)
#1111 Felipe Neri Sanchez (Fast At BAP But [...]
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
The story so far…
Dave Dixon, who grooved our tires and has an alcohol-fueled dune buggy.
The goal was to do a shakedown cruise at Hollister Hills today in prep for the Battle at Primm outside Vegas next weekend.
It didn’t quite work out that way.
Bob and Richard made one run and couldn’t keep the car in second gear. They [...]
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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 [...]
