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.
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.
The video quality from the GoPro cameras is much better than you can tell from this clip. I’m testing different frame rates to figure out what we can get away with and still get decent video. This is 12 frames a second.
Here’s a view from the camera we’ll mount on the roof. We considered mounting it behind the driver and co-driver looking out the windshield, but the shot didn’t look good. Now it looks like we’ll go with it mounted on the roof, over the co-driver and between two of the night driving lights. This was rendered at 15 frames per second. In reality, the video is TV quality.
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.
We’re going with a new paint scheme for this year’s Baja 1000. We took the car to Holly Oak Elementary School in San Jose where Ms. Battistella’s students painted their palms in red, blue or gold paint and pressed them on the fenders. I’ll put a gallery of photos up later tonight.
We depart for Mexico on Wednesday. More painting and final prep work to do this weekend. Graphics start arriving tomorrow. More to come.
