We move the new body to Desert Dingo Racing manufacturing annex tomorrow.
We’re meeting up Saturday morning at 10:30 to load the new body onto a trailer and haul it over to Soquel where it will be mated with the revitalized pan. Then it’s a mad rush to install shocks, fuel cell, electronics, comm and a kajillion other things before we head off for VORRA‘s Yerington 300 the last weekend of May. It will be very, very tight.
Shawn and I (mostly Shawn) spent most of yesterday painting 1107s new body. Shawn did the painting. I manned the tweezers, picking pine needles and other detritus falling out of the trees that landed on the wet paint.
Body will be attached to the pan next weekend. Yerington at the end of the month. Gallery of painting photos here.
Why I feel safer in 1107 than I do in pretty much any street car.
Crusty has been working two weeks straight prepping 1107’s roll cage and pan for the new body. We’ve minor tweeks to the roll cage, reinforced the front beam support and overall tightening everything up.
Gravel floor = swank.
We moved 1107 to its new home over the weekend. Back up into the Santa Cruz mountains (from its previous location up in the Santa Cruz mountains). The move went amazingly flawlessly and we’re hard at work to get ready for the first desert race of the season May 27-30 in Yerington. The pan is being worked on there. The new body being massaged at Desert Dingo HQ. Work day at both locations this weekend.
Some photos from the move. The parking lot photo was taken just before Shawn, Skid, Billy and I got into an argument over which form of racing is more awesome – IRL, NASCAR, MotoGP or motocross (it’s NASCAR).
Two other bits of news. Just passed 25,000 downloads of our iPhone, iPod and Android mobile app. And we nailed a trifecta in the current issue of Dusty Times. A photo of 1107 appeared in the VORRA full page ad for the race season. We got mentioned in the Prairie City I race recap.
Thank you Jessica and Nathan for your help at PC I.
Last thing: Planning for the 1000 has already begun…
I just can’t get enough of this photo of Shawn rolling 1107.
VORRA has rolled out their new website and we’re featured as their first “Profile in Courage.” (Ok, that was my idea.) They’ll be doing them on other race teams in the coming months.
Also learned that we scored a trifecta in this month’s Dusty Times. 1107 is one of the featured cars in a full page ad placed by VORRA. We get a mention in the recap of the first race of the 2011 season.