Desert Dingo Racing

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  • Countdown to the USA 500

    You need fenders? We got fenders.

    Busy day today. Started loading electronics and our giveaways on the front porch. Shawn and Bob showed up and we loaded up the Satellite Telework Centers truck with painted wheels and body parts. The off to the car where Bob and Crusty finessed the front skid plate, Shawn worked on sponsor logos and Emme Hall of Hall Ass Racing installed the GPS, Camelbaks and breather hoses.

    Emme and I decamped to DDR HQ and spent the afternoon painting spare wheels, bumpers, light bar and spare fenders.

    Tomorrow we finish car prep, load it on Crusty’s 1951 car hauler and head south to San Luis Obispo to Rugged Radios. On Wednesday 1107 departs for Reno for VORRA’s USA 500.

    We’ll be live updating the race events on the Twitter using the #USA500 hashttag.

    Photos from today’s work here.

  • Two weeks to VORRA’s USA 500 and 1107 is coming together

    I love that new car smell

    It’s that smell. That new car smell. Some day this race is gonna end.

    I sprayed the race seat rails this morning and drove them over to the car. Crusty worked on all the stuff he works on. With his help I got the seats installed and we mapped out the next week getting the car ready for the USA 500. He’s off to get his 1951 16-foot car hauler. I’ll be installing the GPS, dialing in the five point harnesses and repainting everything I scratched while shouting the seats into place. I came home and spray painted our new rims, courtesy of Bob Russell. They will sport the World Diabetes Day blue circle.

    I’m dropping off some new tires with the rims at Dixon & Son Tires tomorrow. They’ve supported us since Day One. An interesting meeting will happen in the next week.

    Here are our new rims.

    OSHA approved

  • Interior painting 1107

    Painted cage

    There are actually a remarkable number of people who check out our photo gallery for photos just like this really boring one.

    Crusty, Emme Hall and I met this weekend to work on 1107. Crusty worked on the hood. Emme did interior painting. I supervised. The interior is done save for the pan and I’ll bring a vacuum cleaner tomorrow and take care of that. Billy Rickard is wiring as I write this and then it’s south to San Luis Obispo to Rugged Radios.

    VORRA is planning a Show and Shine for the week of the USA 500. Sparks does its Farmers Market on Victorian Avenue on Thursday, July 14. We’ll have a bunch of race teams with cars on display. Class 11s (natch), as many as three Rally Fighters, my arch rival Total Chaos, hopefully Shannon’s Class 1, Rich Massie’s No. 24 Rescue Racing Trophy Truck, Clayton Scudder’s Class 1 and a bunch of pre-runners. It’s going to be teh awesome.

    Some photos from last weekend’s paint work.

  • 1107 outside painting is done

    People tarp Costco shelters in their front yard all the time
    There’s nothing suspicious going on here. Seriously. Just keep driving.

    Shawn and I decamped to a different part of the Santa Cruz mountains this past weekend to shoot the outside of 1107. Because we didn’t want to also spray every other car within a 300 foot radius, we grabbed every tarp we could find and zip-tied them to the shade structure that serves as our workshop.

    That was Sunday. I checked out the car Monday night. The paint looked great and two days of 100 degree heat hardened it nicely. Over the next few days I’ll be using my extensive yoga training to sand and paint the interior. Then we put everything back in and truck 1107 to Rugged Radios in San Luis Obispo for a comm install. Then a photo shoot and then VORRA’s USA 500.

    A couple of great announcements coming up. Photos from this past weekend’s work are here.

  • Teamwork @ the Yerington 300

    Yoga helps
    And by “teamwork”, I mean “All the other teams helping up put 1107 together in time for tech when we showed up with a rolling pan and box of parts.”

    Actually, that’s a shot of Meghan with Two Larrys Racing working on our car. I’d been standing around, holding our race radio, when she came up and said “What can I do to help?” and I looked at the radio and said “Install this?” and she was on it.

    Heck, she even shared some pictures of us she took at the race. You can check ’em out here. She’s got a load more on the Green Booger site. Definitely check them out.

    Rain this weekend. We’re taking it off.