Crusty and I spent the day stripping down the body that will be 1107 2.0. Crusty pulled the fenders and focused on cleaning up the engine compartment. I removed all the glass, rubber and any mechanical stuff (window cranking stuff, windshield wiper) that we wouldn’t be using.
Tomorrow we strip out the last remnants of what factory workers in Germany put in it to make it a consumer car.
Billy Rickard, standing in 1107s engine bay. Who knew there’s a website devoted to these photos. Billy, who’s been on the team for approaching a year, has never been in the car.
Billy tagged and bagged 1107s electrical system, clearing the way for Sunday’s cutting torches and Sawz-Alls. Next up, the body is cut off and we start on mods for 2011.
A handful of shots of us standing in our engine bay here.
Linked from Jalopnik.
Thankfully, the staples don’t endanger anything sensitive.
Turn ons: Dr. Ferdinand Porsche, winning and world peace.
It’s a good thing we added a Canadian to the team or I’d have a hard time explaining why a two-wheel-drive VW bug was included in Canada’s own Gear Centre Group 4×4 Club calendar for 2011. Come to think of it, 1107 has been to Canada. So I only have to explain away the non-4WD part.
We’re in great company and these folks do things with their rigs that I only have nightmares about. You can download the calendar for free here.
Thanks guys, I appreciate it and am honored. Paul Hartl will buy you the first round of drinks.
This is Greg Cottrell of Rugged Radios, saving our bacon on the way down to the Baja 1000 in 2008.
I met Greg on our way down to the Baja 1000 back in 2008. Richard had an issue with his comm system and we pulled in to Greg’s shop in San Luis Obispo to have it looked at. I recall Greg had it fixed in something like five seconds.
I got in touch recently to find out whether he could fix our four year old race radio – the face fell off it at our last race of the season. Not good. We got to talking, one thing led to another and Greg has signed on to support our race effort for 2011, outfitting 1107 with a state of the art comm system that I’m confident will allow us to communicate with race teams on other planets.
Here’s the press release I put together on his sponsorship. I’m really looking forward to working with Greg and his team.
One bolt is keeping me from getting the co-driver’s seat out. One. Bolt.
Putting a car together and taking it apart are two different realities. Putting it together, you do whatever it takes to make everything work. And it pretty much does.
Taking apart the same car is another matter.
Crusty and I worked on 1107 today. I spent more than an hour earlier today trying to get the a bolt unbolted. It’s the rear left side rear bolt on the co-driver seat. Driver seat? Out. Battery. Out. Air filter the size of a small suitcase? Out. Passenger seat? Not so much.
I’m giving it 20 minutes the next time I’m at the car and then I’m having Crusty fire up the cutting torch.