An extremely early birthday present from Roxanne came in the mail today. A custom Flip HD camera with a photo of 1107 printed on the front. We’ve been using a standard Flip for several years with decent results. We’ll test it at the SNORE 250 in early October and at the World Diabetes Congress later in the month. And, naturally, at the Baja 1000.
Thank you Roxanne 🙂
August 24 , 2009, Santa Cruz, Calif. –TrailGlow Lighting, a leading provider of high intensity lighting systems for the off road racing community, announced today that it is sponsoring Desert Dingo Racing’s 2009 off road racing season, including the Baja 1000 in Mexico in November.
Desert Dingo Racing campaigns a 1969 Volkswagen Beetle in off road races in the U.S. and Mexico. The team is the official World Diabetes Day off road race team and works with the International Diabetes Federation to raise money for diabetes education and awareness programs.
TrailGlow Lighting provides the best affordable HID lights available as well as custom lighting systems, including INERGY number panels and decals that greatly increase visibility during night races.
Don’t call it a comeback…
There is a growing chance that we’ll race a revitalized 1117 at SNORE’s KARTEK Western Desert Challenge on November 14. The situation is that we’ll use 1107 for the South Point SNORE 250 on October 3-4, then haul it back, spruce it up and put it on a truck trailer for the trip to Montreal for the World Diabetes Congress October 18-22.
It will return sometime the first week of November, but by then we’ll be focused on prepping it for the Baja 1000, for which we leave on November 16 or 17 (the actual race starts on Saturday, November 21). Naturally we don’t want to risk trashing 1107 a few days before the 1000, so we are looking at trailering 1117 out to Las Vegas, crossing the start/finish line at the Kartek race and going as far as we can to collect season points.
Then we trailer 1117 back, load up 1107 and head for points south.
Today I enlisted the help of our next door neighbors, Jim and Sylvia, and Jo, who had to evacuate from the Lockheed Fire, to help me move 1117 and 1107 around so I can do a little work on them before turning them over to the team.
1117 and 1107, united again.
Scott and Bob came by Friday and spent five hours doing all manner of things with 1107’s electrical system. They eventually took it back to Bob’s place to test it on his cherry ride. Scott was back this morning (I’d trickle-charged the battery overnight) and we (ok, Scott) had the car running in about 10 minute. We couldn’t get the timing right and voted unanimously (2-0) to tell Bob to fix it.
Since I’m ADD, it took me the rest of the afternoon to pull the fenders. And vacuumed the car. Supervised by a couple of deer.
Tomorrow, the car gets washed and inventoried. And prepped for painting. Coming up, the SNORE South Point 250 in Las Vegas, the World Diabetes Congress in Montreal and the Baja 1000 in Mexico.
1107 fenderless.
First draft of the new Desert Dingo Racing hero card.
Roxanne put together a first draft of the hero card we’ll likely use this year. The front has a picture of the car and the back has info on the team and the warning signs of diabetes. We print them in English and Spanish and this year we’ll be doing a run of them in French that we’ll distribute at the World Diabetes Congress in Montreal in October.
Update: A.J. has a slightly different take on the hero card.