No, we weren’t hit by a meteor, or a freight train or anything else, thank you very much.
Charlene Bower of Bower Motorsports Media was kind enough to include some video of us (for insurance purposes) in her video coverage of the Hawthorne 225. I’m about to head out right now and start unloading stuff from 1107.
Team meeting this coming week to plan for the short course racing in October.
Every office cubicle should have a pair of rusty VW rims.
Remember those two rusty rims that Larry Zimmerman donated to us? Now they look like this:
A few minutes with the grinder and another few coats of Rustoleum gloss white and they are race ready. Thanks again, Larry. We really appreciate it. (FYI, Larry drives the bright yellow Baja bug around Felton, so wave if you spot him).
Richard tow-barring 1107 over to his place.
We’ve got a few things to do to get 1107 prepped for the Hawthorne 250. Replace the pedal assembly, weld in a new exhaust pipe to the spark arrestor, install a new brake fluid reservoir (we sort of melted the old one while doing some welding), and figure out where to reposition the shovel and the jack handle.
Richard’s doing the majority of the work. I’m going to be wire-brushing three rims, two of which which were donated to us by Larry Zimmerman, who’s got some great VWs in his barn, as you might recall. He dropped a couple off at the office. Thank you Larry.
Crusty and Scott, hauling the mail at the Fallon 250.
This is a screen capture from the Bower Media coverage of the Fallon 250. Many thanks to Two Larrys & A Megan Racing for bringing this to my attention.
Here’s their video of the race. The good stuff happens 41 seconds in:
Everyone uses their gas bbq grill as a mobile work bench, right?
I pulled everything out of 1107 Sunday and started cataloging what needs to be done to prep for the Hawthorne 250. Main things are fixing the oil leak (probably a big deal), replacing the brake fluid reservoir (it leaked everywhere and we had very little brake pressure), checking the wiring on our transponder and installing a replacement spare (Scott and I really taco’d one on the last lap of the Fallon 250 night race).