Topic: New Team to Lemons, in the NC area
My name is Jeremy, I drive an 18 wheeler, and get too bored, way too easily. So I've put together a team of truck drivers to try an attempt a race down in Kershaw, SC. I know the endurance part we might have a slight advantage on, seeming we normally drive for 7 hours straight, then another 4 hours after that. Although we do know that racing is a lot different than driving something that can't do more than 35 up a hill, and 65 down one. Hopefully we all don't swing wide while navigating the course.
2 of us, Jesse and I, have previous racing experience. Just not in actually fast cars. Jesse drives a Probe,... and we both have experience building cars. John has experience working on them, but has not yet had the chance to build something interesting. So this is something he is really looking forward to. And my CDL trainee, Rick, has zero experience with any of it. And his entire family wants to help out building the car and costumes, etc.
We went last week to buy a 1987 Dodge Daytona, 2.5L N/A, and 5 Spd. I've already contacted a few other teams who have experience with this car to see what kinds of things I should look for and take care of before anything else. We have spoken with a few places about cages, and are just waiting to make a decision on which one we are going to go with. I guess that part needs to wait until we've finished stripping the car, and buying the seats that can actually fit all of us (John is called the Hobbit for a reason (and I'm about the same height as him,...from side to side).
We've kind of chosen to go with a hot dog theme. But not the Oscar Meyer Wiener mobile. We did look at the over used themes page, but I didn't see our exact idea in there. We want to dress the car up like a grill,... use grill grates for vents and stuff. We rigged up a BBQ lighter to be a click-to-start button, a beer can for a shift knob, smoker pipe with a tractor flap for the exhaust (we expect smoke at some point). Still trying to come up with more stuff to use for the theme, but for only a week in to the build, I think we aren't doing too bad. Any suggestions will be thrown in a box and randomly chosen or discarded. By the way, we want to call ourselves The Last Minute Wieners,... because we're dumb.
Anyways, just kinda wanted to pop in and say hi, get a little active on the forums, and hopefully see you all on race day!!
PS, how do I add images here? Can I use the img brackets to link facebook pictures?
