Sunday, October 4th, 2009
Great video of us getting pwned by a 16 car
Here I was all set to get some great video of 1107 rounding the corner at Checkpoint One of the SNORE 250 in Primm, and this 16 car comes in and ruins everything!
Photos tomorrow. We’re all bushed.
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Evolution of the car
More work tomorrow on the car to get it ready for the Battle at Primm. A perfect time to do a retrospective on the evolution of the car.
Skid bought it for $300 from a guy who was about to have it hauled to a junk dealer, apparently because his landlord thought it was an eyesore. [...]
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Saturday, December 6th, 2008
And the repairs begin…
Sometime Sunday Creech is coming by with a Checker cab outfitted with a tow hitch to trailer 1102 to his place in Ben Lomond. Bob “Bus Boy” Russell, our team sommelier, will drop the engine and transmission. We’re pricing spare race transmissions as I write this, and looking to folks to rebuild our primary tranny. [...]
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
Seventh overall in SCORE Class 11 standings
Considering we only did the San Felipe and the Baja 1000, we still racked up 64 points and finished 7th in all the Class 11s competing.
Wait til we win both races next year.
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Saturday, November 29th, 2008
The exotic life of the Baja 1000 racer
Here’s a quickie video of us prepping all the vehicles on Race Day morning. We all headed across town in a caravan around 10:15 to line up for an 11:30 a.m.-ish start.
The neighborhood kids would hang out with us. I took some photos. You can check out the gallery here.
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
Baja 1000 Contingency & race day photos
And we’re back! About 12 hours from Ensenada to Felton. 1102 is safely ensconced on the trailer in the front yard. We’ll be needing a couple of new fenders, a rebuilt transmission, a short throw reverse lock out shifter and some other bits and bobs, but we should be back in business in short order. [...]
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
And when they’re 40 years old, we’ll race them, too.
The LA Design Challenge, which coincides with the L.A. Auto Show, picked “Motorsports 2025″ for this year’s theme. VW went with a Baja 1000 entry in the new “One Tank Unlimited Solo Class.” The only stipulations are one driver and one 10-gallon tank of fuel, forcing competitors to use every bit of technology, strategy, and [...]
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
What breaks. What they carry.
A couple weeks back I posted on the Class 11 Coalition forum a question – “What breaks, what do you carry?” One of the greatest challenges for racing any desert class is what tools and spare parts you carry in the car and what you carry in the chase vehicles.
Dave Hendrickson – aka [...]
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
History of VWs in Baja Racing – video
Baja Racing News has posted a video from VW Motorsports on the history of VW racing down in Baja. You can check it out here. Eric Solorzano’s red Beetle makes an appearance.
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Photo shoot
We did the photo shoot today. Like any photo shoot, you need a lot of stuff.
First, you need a car.
Second, you need talent. That would be Charlie.
You need “below the line people” like Skid and Shawn, who showed up fashionably late on Saturday after I already had 2.5 wheels bolted on the car. They did [...]
