Month: July 2003
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settling into bugjam
in the akciddento pits on thursday night before bugjam
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onwards and upwards
enough said!
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doh…
if you see me over the weekend at the bugjam VWDRC race meeting please smile and be nice- I just went out ot the split to sort some bits out and because paul venners is here doing welding his car full of tools is in the drive/courtyard so i parked the bus in the lane…
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off to bugjam
and it’s raining, a lot. i can hear the lorries swishing up and down the road through the puddles. pack the bus, get paul botch to finish the welding on the 412, pull the enginein the bus, strip it, rebuild it, do a four wheel alignment and rework the interior. have a bath , then…
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blessed be.
today is a bit of am odd day. paul venners – of the commentating, ‘botch boys – team botch- fame- is round for a few days doing the welding that needs to be done on the 412. he’s tapping and welding and grimnding away. my boy louie came back from school yesterday and walked through…
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peppercron…
duh! what more can be said ? quite a lot actually but i think i’ll tell you all that tomorrow. suffice to say great time, great show, great people got lots of bits for the fugly 412…. …and STOP TELLING ME WHAT I CAN AND CAN”T DO. ….and please stop telling me what it is…
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fame!
got referred to a serious kinda drag race site earlier top end talesrun by the mysterious ‘sharkman’ with pictures and video of lots the cars racing at the summer nationals. guess what’s the first picture on the first page ? AYE! ‘Respect to Dan Buzzo, not only did he race this VW bus he made…
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new shop updates
finally got down to some keyboard hammering and knocked out a few more pages in the akciddento shop. new design t-shirts, old style hats and baseball jerseys. posted a link up on the Volkszone forum with a poll to get peoples reaction (though i think it’s a bit like asking your aunts and uncles) and…
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did you do this ?
here it is, the fugly 412 after a visit to mister MOT. investigating the ‘corrosion to o/s & n/s rear inner wheel arch’ i discovered that the MOT tester needed glasses. the ‘o/s & n/s rear inner wheel arch’ is made of expanding foam filler covered with p38 chopped strand. how could it be rusty…
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timing is the essence of good comedy pt II
following my theorising on the timing data from big bang here is some interesting sums that spencer tramm at VWDRC has doe —- Here are the average reaction times of the Sportsman VW racers this year (eliminations only) , I have only included cars that have competed in three rounds of competition (i.e. an average…