Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Fenderless
The shocks aren’t on. Nor are the fenders. But check out the clearance we have now, courtesy of Eric, Sam and Crusty.
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
“Because engines want to have fun, too.”
One of the last things Eric and Sam did before buttoning up the car was to tune the engine. Adjust the valves. Check. Adjust the timing. Check. Pour a bottle of beer in the carburetor. Check.
(Note that this Corona has a slice of lemon in it).
For the record, the engine ran remarkably better [...]
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
A weekend of work on 1101
Crusty and Sam work on hammering out the front end of 1101.
Eric Solorzano and his longtime friend and co-driver “Yosemite” Sam drove up to San Jose this past week to work their magic on 1101. By the time they buttoned it up on Saturday afternoon, we had a good 3-4 additional inches of clearance on [...]
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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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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
It doesn’t get more exciting than this
We hit a spot of trouble around Route Mile 5 and 1101 stopped for a few minutes. Solorzano has opened up about a six mile lead but we’re back in the action.
Watch for Twitter updates here.
