Last fall I volunteered with a buddy to help out with a Lucky Dog endurance race down in Oregon. Lucky Dog is a west coast version of Champcar. Endurance racing with a budget in mind so that regular joe-schmoes like you or me (with more money) can get into real wheel-to-wheel racing.

There is a sacred number every petrolhead has. For better or worse, this number defines them. It will rank you amongst your fraternal petrolheads, and you have the means to increase it, or heaven forbid, decrease it.

What am I talking about? Bank account? Credit Card debt? Credit card limit? Horsepower? Llamapower?

In this chapter, we make serious progress on the shop of my dreams! Electrical, tooling, finishing, and even painting.

This is turning into a BIG project. But, strides are being made, mostly in the right direction! We’ve had some setbacks, and learned a lot from our mistakes.

I have some very ambitious goals for the car this winter and into next year. I want to make the car overall faster, more reliable, better looking, and even more comfortable. Basically a whole rebuild. But before I can tear her apart, I need a better work space.