Billy Rickard, after more than a year on the team, finally gets to drive 1107 2.0 on its inaugural blast down a sparsely inhabited country road.
We just may pull this off. Crusty, Bob and Billy pulled the daylight equivalent of an all-nighter and sometime around 8 p.m. 1107 (Mark II) came to life for the first time since last October. Billy, who’s never been in the car despite being on the team for a year, took it for the first spin. We could hear him ripping it up through the redwoods. He eventually claimed back and declared it “good.”
All that’s left before departing for Sunday’s Yerington 300 is putting on the doors, fenders, hood, deck lid, installing window nets, both refurbished Mastercraft Safety seats, the radio, maybe the GPS, pumper hoses, Camelbaks, some minor welding, spare tires, tools, med kit, fire extinguisher, spare quarts of oil, five point harnesses, jack, spare tie rods, impact wrench, spare parts bag, antenna, drilling the hole in the hood, for the fuel filler, spring clip for the deck lid, secondary latches on the hood, deck lid and doors, deck lid latch, hotwiring renting a truck and trailer, packing tools, spare parts bins, spare tires, food shopping and we’re on our way.
Cake.
Some photos from today’s work.
I’ll be live tweeting and blogging the race. In the best of all possible worlds, I won’t have to be in the car, but I’ve got a new race suit that’s itching to get dirty.