Desert Dingo Racing

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  • Friends don’t let friends drive fugly pre-runners


    Seriously, I wouldn’t drive this in the desert, let alone the street.

    Michelle, aka Miss Motor Mouth, sent me a link to this Craigslist ad:

    ……… 1994 CHEVY FULLY CUSTOM 2005 PRE RUNNER KIT * CUSTOM PAINT * 350 ENG. 28K NEW … A/C ICE COLD … STEREO CD, DVD, 2 AMPS, SUBS, LOTS MORE !!! TAGS GOO TILL 2011 … NEW TIRES … THIS IS A VERY NICE TRUCK !!! *** CLEAN TITLE IN HAND *** GREAT DEAL … $ 6,900 … CALL FOR MORE INFO … 714 465 6523 …………. THANKS ………….

    The subject line from her email was “So cheap I almost can’t pass”

    This is wrong on so many levels. Poor grammar, all caps typing, and the paint job. Cripes.

    Thankfully, I think she’s come to her senses.

  • Herb-i-Islami in Kabul


    Kabul’s anti-corruption campaigner Ramazan Bashardost meets Herb-i-Islami, outside the politician’s tent, opposite parliament, in Kabul.

    Jerome Starkey is the Times of London correspondent in Kabul. He’s working with a local mechanic to get his ’69 VW Beetle (same as us) on the road. I read everything he writes. You can follow him on the Twitters here.

    I’m tempted to put together a CARE package of points, plugs, fuel filters, throttle cables, starter motors, distributors, windshield wipers, assorted lengths of wire, alligator clips, chicken wire and tongue depressors and showing up on his door step to get Herb-i-Islami dialed into tip top shape.

    Word has it he has a sofa Roxanne and I can crash on.

    Until then, this is the video that, as a co-driver, I aspire to.

  • Photos from the MORE Powder Puff race in Barstow


    I can’t believe I forgot to pick one of these up.

    While the team was slogging it out in Prairie City, Roxanne, our traveling companion Kat and I headed south to Barstow for the annual MORE Powder Puff off road race, where we met up with Emme Hall, racing a Class 5 Trophy Bug, Pepper Cote, racing “Kitt” a Class 13 Sportsman Buggie, Michelle “Miss Motor Mouth” Naranjo and her erstwhile companion Paul.

    Friday afternoon was tech and contingency at the outlet mall on the edge of the desert and racing started right at pretty much 8 a.m.

    Emme’s team pulled off a miracle. 549 blew the valve guides in the head and it look like it was all over, but…actually she tells it better.

    Roxanne shot a great series of photos. Thank you Paul Lukey with TrailGlow for helping us with accommodations.

  • Prairie City on my mind


    OMG! OMG! Two Larrys and a Megan Racing will pay!

    The last of this season’s short course races start this weekend at Prairie City, just outside Sacramento. 1107 is mechanically sound, which is code for “The car is in 100 pieces in the front yard.”

    We (ok, Crusty) power washed about 100 pounds of dirt out of the car this week. I pulled out everything that wasn’t bolted down. Richard hammered out dented stuff. It really just needs fenders put on.

    Some photos from this weekend’s work.


    Richard autographs his masterwork.

  • There’s not a lot about Desert Dingo in this post


    Surely a Class 11 could do the Silk Road.

    It’s October, we’re out for the 1000, we’ve got two short course races to go in the VORRA series, we’ve got something really cool in the works and we’ve got a line on a new engine block to replace the one that’s done yeoman’s work for the last three years.

    By this coming weekend we’ll have power washed 1107, stripped out anything we don’t need for the Oct. 9-10 short course race at Prairie City and figured out the oil leaks.

    Here’s a video I shot at a field trip Roxanne and I took to Canepa Designs recently: