Topic: BS Inspection over, tomorrow we race
I'll get some Jalopnik posts live for tomorrow morning, but here's a quick roundup:
• First-ever Lemons Citroën, and it looks like it will be ready in time- almost there now! When I left the track an hour ago, all that remained on the Spank to-do list was some kill switch wiring and the car numbers. It drove a single lap around the paddock... which was the first time the car had moved more than a few feet in the last 20 years, and the only "practice" prior to the car hitting the race track tomorrow morning.
• Crazy quantities of new-to-us Stupid V8 Swaps. The "Chevolvo" run by The Flakes now has a small-block Chevy. There's a Toyota pickup with a set-back small-block Chevy (and a dead-stock, very loose suspension). There's an RX-7 with a small-block Ford- yeah, it weighs hundreds of pounds more than a rotary, so it's going to handle like a Zamboni, but who cares? We love Stupid V8 Swaps! Meanwhile, the V8olvo and V8E30 have returned, though the V8olvo spent most of the day in non-running condition due to fuel pump and/or ignition woes.
• For the most part, the whining and anger levels were quite low. A couple of teams that built super hot rods from "stuff just lying around the shop" and didn't provide documentation got slapped with pretty steep BS penalties, but nobody got more than 300 laps and most teams got zero.
• The theme ante has been upped with a Corolla FX16 converted to a fairly credible Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. Sure, it looks like a Wienermobile built by drunks in a junkyard, working with only a confused verbal description of the original Wienermobile, but we love it anyway.
• Only a couple of cars blew up during practice, which is way better than the massive mechanical carnage we usually get on Friday.
