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CANEPA DESIGNS TOUR

Along with some members of the Nob Hill Auto Club, I toured the Canepa Designs restoration shop/showroom/museum today in Scotts Valley, CA. There is some truely world class design and restoration work going on there. Bruce Canepa was a wonderful host and gave us a personal tour of the workshop, detailing the reconstruction of several cars scattered about the cavernous facility. The facility houses the ’87 Earnhardt Championship car, the ‘70 and ‘71 Penske/Donahue Javelins, Duesenberg chassis #1 (!!!!),  Indy roadsters, Pikes Peak cars, Can-Am cars, Hi-boy hotrods with Gurney Eagle motors, and on and on. Free of charge and worth the visit.

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510 WAGON FIBERGLASS REAR HATCH GOES ON

Today I welded on four 1/4 turn tabs and riveted on the four corresponding  latches to hold on the fiberglass rear hatch. The bottom is held in place with a couple of external tabs. The idea was to make the process of putting the hatch on a one person job: drop it in place with the tabs and then secure the dzus pins.

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LE-MONS AT INFINEON RACEWAY 2010

The four wheeled circus that is “24 Hours of LeMons” is invading the San Francisco Bay Area this weekend at Infineon/Sonoma County/Sears Pt. Raceway. It is truely an event to see at least once, kind of like Mardi Gras at a racetrack. To make it worth the fans’ time, they even get to pick which race car gets to be crushed, yes, crushed. See an example here -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4tuap8DVRQ

http://www.24hoursoflemons.com/sears10/

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ARIZONA GETS A NEW RACETRACK

“Build it and they will come.”  First, Utah gets the new Miller Motorsports Park, now Arizona gets the new Inde Motorsports Ranch. I sure hope this is a sign of good things to come, the SF Bay Area could always use another racetrack…

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510 COMP OIL PAN

The California Datsun community came through for me as I finally found the finishing jewel for my vintage Datsun race motor; a finned, cast aluminum racing oil pan. Design Products Racing is still making a very nice, steel comp pan for the 510 for about $600, but I was hunting for a cheaper, used one, and hopefully an old school looking aluminum one. This one has internal baffles and a windage tray. Special thanks to Steve Link for digging this one up for me.

 

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