Archive for February, 2009

Off to 100 Acre Wood!

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Just waiting for Chad right now to pick me up to head down to 100 Acre Wood/Trespasser’s Will Rally down in Salem, MO.
Should be fun, this was one of my favorite rallies that I drove myself when i was driving, now it’ll be fun to be back codriving.  I’m hoping for some fast gravel, but [...]

No more white door

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Since the photog’s can’t seem to remember to only take pictures of the co-driver side of my car, I took advantage of the near 60 degree temps today and painted the new door and fender.

The bad (and good) news is that I ran out of paint. Bad because I didn’t quite get two full [...]

Sno*Drift 2009 Day 2

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

As happens at most rallies, Saturday morning came way too early. Brent and Jose were up at 7 to make sure there weren’t any loose parts, add some gas to the car, and then we were off to Parc Expose. My focus for the day was avoiding the “red mist”, and the snowbanks [...]

Sno*Drift 2009 Day 1

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Wow! What an event. It was a long, cold, icy weekend, but in the end it was a great event.
It started out like always, with little issues causing concern. Tech found a front wheel bearing that was starting to go, so we watched that all weekend, hoping it didn’t get loose enough [...]