Desert Dingo Racing

Category: USA 500

  • 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.

  • We have a walk-on in Race-Dezert’s Yerington 300 video

    Yes, that’s us using electrical tape for our race numbers. We’ll be decked out for VORRA’s USA 500, though. TrailGlow number panels and sponsor logos will likely go on the car next week.

  • 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.

  • Spit and polish in prep for VORRA’s USA 500 (and a photo shoot)

    Seats on a porch
    The thrill of racing includes a lot of time cleaning mud off of everything.

    Dingo Emeritus Charlie Reynolds is headed to Chula Vista this weekend to take a look at a 5/1600 car that he has no room in his garage for, so I’m headed up to where we have 1107 parked to retrieve our ratchet straps on the odd chance he decides it’s a good idea to take any excess money he has lying around and throw it at a race car and he needs to trailer it back up here. If he gets it, he expects his first race to be the Prairie City short course in October.

    I’ll be back up at 1107 on Saturday afternoon, painting the interior again and then masking it for exterior paint with Shawn on Sunday. Then we actually leave it alone for a few days to dry. Then electronics, decals and the USA 500 about one month from today.

  • 1107 disassembly proceeds apace

    it puts the oil on its accumulator

    Crusty admires our handiwork.

    Crusty and I worked on 1107 2.0 on Saturday, mostly pulling perfectly good equipment out of it – seats, radio, comm, air filter, GPS, air pumper etc. to give Crusty the room he needs to finish some welding. Once he’s done, Shawn and I go in and do the final painting. Then it’s off to Rugged Radios for new comm installation. Then a photo shoot, then the USA 500 in mid-July.

    More that that going on today with a probably early finish to watch the NASCAR Pocono race. While cleaning parts.