10 + 2 = 20?

by steve on May.08, 2010, under Photos

Got flagged at tech last night for not having 20 total lbs of fire extinguishing power… Headed to the not-so-friendly confines of the Indio Super WalMart where GVB proceeded to lose his mind… 40 minutes of waiting in line and we were out the door…

Headed to service area now to set up and then recce.

Tired.

It’s been a long couple of days, but I have a feeling we will be just fine when we light up the first special stage…

En route… Finally.

by steve on May.07, 2010, under Photos

After what seemed like an endless day of prep we are finally making our way to Indio…

Quick shakedown and GVB is liking the new shifter… And it’s one helluva difference with new tires!

A special thanks to Charlies Garage for the exhaust help… Enjoy the caronas fellas.

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Plan B…

by steve on May.07, 2010, under Photos

Running around getting last minute stuff together for plan B… Like the exhaust… Tires… You know, the basics.

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Press about us… cool!

by gvb on May.05, 2010, under Photos

Rally-America.com has some press up about our rally this weekend. This is going to be a SUPER competitive race in Group 2… I love 2WD rally!

Doin work…

by steve on Apr.30, 2010, under Photos

Another night at RALLY HQ–another 50 things we need to do… We got the steering rack back in but are awaiting the parts shipments to finish out a few things under the car…. GVB made short work of the exhaust repair. We also thought we should clean the air filter out a bit…

HELP US GET TO OREGON!!!!

by steve on Apr.27, 2010, under Photos

Help FM/TM Racing out!

We are trying to raise some funds to make our first National Event: Oregon Trails… this rally racing is anything but cheap, so if you think you can part with $15 to help us out, we will return the favor by taking 1st place and sending you this t-shirt… (we’ll try our damndest for 1st but we can guarantee the shirt!)

Paypal $15 to steve@thinmanfatmanracing.com along with your size and address!
Please add an extra dollar for XXL and above! If you are outside of CA, please add $3 for s/h.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!!!!

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Plan A for Plan B: Win.

by steve on Apr.26, 2010, under Photos

Lot’s of work on the car in between High Desert Trails and Plan B… The mystery leak in the steering rack should be fixed with the new rack GVB muscled in this weekend… some other things on the fix list:

Tires
Tires
Tires…

We are hoping to get the Vdub shook down and tight at Plan B for the Oregon Trails Rally the weekend after… We would love to have some friendly faces up there in Oregon as we play with the big boys… Please let us know if you can join us! Even better if you can turn a wrench!

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Done deal.

by steve on Apr.18, 2010, under Photos

So it’s Sunday, the world seems to be moving at about 3 mph… I can’t seem to get the lawn mower to turn like GVB gets the VW to…

So Plan B is next up on the list… a few things we should be excited for:

1: We can only get better
2: Further shakedown of the car is really going to help us iron out the few kinks left
3: We have some experience on these roads from Desert Storm
4: TIRES – We’ve done this well with 7 YEAR OLD TIRES (as Doug Nagy put it “those are the worst tires I have ever seen on a rally car”) GVB has some new tires coming–I can’t wait to see firsthand what GVB can do with Lil Red with some stick on these stages!

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uhhh…

by gvb on Apr.18, 2010, under Photos

…and due to quality AT&T cellular coverage, we weren’t able to post an update after Stage 5, which gave us our best time: 7:59! Out of 20 cars, that was the 4th quickest. AND, we also ended up with a 4th overall finish! Most importantly though, it was FUN!

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