Desert Dingo Racing

Category: The Car

  • Final night of prep before departing for the Baja 1000

    I accidently left the digital still camera at home, so decided to capture the final night of prep on the car with video. Richard, Dennis and I made a run up to Auburn to retrieve the trailer. Shawn completed the last of the painting and graphics. Bob, Scott and Cary did final buttoning up and then began pulling together all the spare parts and tools we’d be taking down with us. Elektra is headed to Sonoma today to pick up fuel cans we’re borrowing again from World Motorsports. Charlie even dropped by.

    The car moves from San Jose to Felton this afternoon and we head out for Mexico at the crack of dawn Thursay.

  • Laying down the decals

    Sponsor shout out

    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.

  • Thank you and more photos of Holly Oak students


    A big shoutout to Ms. Battistella and her students, Mrs. Velasquez the art teacher, Principal Corpus and everyone else who made our visit to Holly Oak Elementary so much fun. The car looks great. Click here for a few more photos of the event.

  • Starting to button it up before heading south

    Junior Spacemen Scott 'n Cary

    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.

    Here’s a gallery of photos from yesterday’s work.

  • Desert Dingo Racing in Discovery Channel Magazine

    Discovery Channel Asia Magazine story on Baja Racers

    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.