Desert Dingo Racing

Category: VORRA

  • Off to Rugged Radios

    My iPhone battery died immediately after this shot, so I didn’t get a shot of Crusty’s awesome rat rod tow truck.

    We still need a couple of fenders and need to sort out a short with our GPS., but otherwise we’re good to go.

    Big thanks to Bayside Oil II for being our fuel sponsor. Our chase team picks up a 55 gallon drum of 110 octane tomorrow.

    Crusty is already on the road to SLO for our meeting with Rugged Radios meeting. They’re supporting us with comm equipment. We’re looking forward to helping them raise their profile.

    Less than a week to the USA 500. It’s going to be great.

  • Countdown to the USA 500

    You need fenders? We got fenders.

    Busy day today. Started loading electronics and our giveaways on the front porch. Shawn and Bob showed up and we loaded up the Satellite Telework Centers truck with painted wheels and body parts. The off to the car where Bob and Crusty finessed the front skid plate, Shawn worked on sponsor logos and Emme Hall of Hall Ass Racing installed the GPS, Camelbaks and breather hoses.

    Emme and I decamped to DDR HQ and spent the afternoon painting spare wheels, bumpers, light bar and spare fenders.

    Tomorrow we finish car prep, load it on Crusty’s 1951 car hauler and head south to San Luis Obispo to Rugged Radios. On Wednesday 1107 departs for Reno for VORRA’s USA 500.

    We’ll be live updating the race events on the Twitter using the #USA500 hashttag.

    Photos from today’s work here.

  • Our pit bike reveal for the USA 500

    What’s this? We finally have a pit bike? And who’s the scruffy looking character who did desert testing at Fourth of Juplaya?

    Here’s what it’s looked like over the years (mostly from Burning Man). People love their ’87 Suzuki LT 230s, you betcha. Ours now has an electronic start.

  • Two weeks to VORRA’s USA 500 and 1107 is coming together

    I love that new car smell

    It’s that smell. That new car smell. Some day this race is gonna end.

    I sprayed the race seat rails this morning and drove them over to the car. Crusty worked on all the stuff he works on. With his help I got the seats installed and we mapped out the next week getting the car ready for the USA 500. He’s off to get his 1951 16-foot car hauler. I’ll be installing the GPS, dialing in the five point harnesses and repainting everything I scratched while shouting the seats into place. I came home and spray painted our new rims, courtesy of Bob Russell. They will sport the World Diabetes Day blue circle.

    I’m dropping off some new tires with the rims at Dixon & Son Tires tomorrow. They’ve supported us since Day One. An interesting meeting will happen in the next week.

    Here are our new rims.

    OSHA approved

  • 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.