Shawn and I (again, mostly Shawn) got started putting on sponsor decals and our numbers tonight. We needed to do some touch up on the paint, so we’ll finish it off tomorrow, after Richard and I return from Auburn with the trailer.
Two days to Mexico and counting. Photos of Shawn’s handiwork here.
With three days to go, the car is coming together. Yesterday Shawn focused on painting. Cary and Scott tested the pumper unit and comm links. Scott installed the greasy greasy axles. Cary fabbed a box to hold six quarts of oil. Dennis tied up loose ends. I futzed with the cameras. Wrapped everything up by 10 p.m.
ETA for departure is Wednesday morning, arriving in San Diego in the evening and then on to Rosarita on Thursday.
Ok, it’s only one quote in a tremendously cool article written by Judy Smith, a veteran Baja racer and longtime writer for Hot VWs. A good number of the photos were shot by Trackside Photo, which got the great shot of us catching air at last year’s Baja 1000. They even mentioned our fundraising for World Diabetes Day. Click here or on the image to download a PDF of the article.
The folks at the Press Banner did a piece on us and a local motorcycle team prepping for the Baja 1000, “1000 reasons“. A great headline. Thank you Chuck and Peter.
Our 1102 numbers arrive from STS Graphics tomorrow via Fedex.
Shawn and I (mostly Shawn) complete painting the car tomorrow. I pick up the Desert Dingo logo for the hood, sponsor graphics and some surprise stuff on Monday.
The team is pulling together spare parts that we’ll either load in the car or carry in the chase vehicles.
We were contacted by the local American Diabetes Association with an offer to display the car at the San Jose City Hall rotunda. Unfortunately, we’ll be down in Mexico doing pre-running. I’ll be meeting with them on Monday, will give them hero cards and loads of crayons and we’ll figure out how we can work together on future events and have the car available. This should be fun.
We’re going with a new paint scheme for this year’s Baja 1000. We took the car to Holly Oak Elementary School in San Jose where Ms. Battistella’s students painted their palms in red, blue or gold paint and pressed them on the fenders. I’ll put a gallery of photos up later tonight.
We depart for Mexico on Wednesday. More painting and final prep work to do this weekend. Graphics start arriving tomorrow. More to come.
