RiffRAF Racing -- Triumph's finest on a $500 budget!

Will we finish (and win) races, or will we let the magic Lucas smoke out first? Watch the continuing adventures as we try to defy history and create a reliable and fast TR6 on the smallest of budgets!

Friday, March 5, 2010

Just in case you didn't think this was a Chump-worthy car...






Whew! Who'd have thought that the major tool needed to remove the seat would be an air chisel (!) After 2 hours of fruitlessly trying to save the seat slides to put on ebay to help the budget...I gave in and air chiseled the seat slide out on the passenger side.

Turns out it was a TOTAL waste of time to try to save them. Reference the pictures...



So, at least I don't have to worry about auctioning those off! On the other hand, there were some useful components that I removed today, more to come. We have until Thursday to get the interior gutted as that's when Lacey will be displaced from the garage... :-)

Here's what the floor looked like, first right after I removed the seat, then after cleaning. Note the two layers of carpet...a layer of black indoor/outdoor carpeting was placed directly over the original carpet...or what was left of it.

Later on, what you see is what the floor looked like AFTER the debris...which was more substantial than the floor in some places...was removed. Look at the chump-worthy aluminum pop-riveted patch right over the rust! Of course, they missed a few holes, as is evidenced by the closeup...

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

TR6 back in the Garage!

Well, Lacey is back in the garage...I'll be taking parts off for eBaying later this week. Yea!!!

Flt Lft Palmer out...

Thursday, February 11, 2010

RiffRAF Racing Gets a New Team Member!

A hearty 'ello! to our latest team member, Flt. Lft. Joe! Welcome to the merry band!

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Update

Due to the weather being so rotten, we're not visiting the LeMons race at Kershaw this weekend like I thought we would. However, our friends at Grim Reaper Racing will be competing and we'll be asking them lots of questions when they return. Go Number 13!

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

ChumpCar

Wow...blown away after meeting Lloyd Boggs from ChumpCar. Looking forward to competing with these folks this year...I'll be asking Lloyd a lot of questions, no doubt...it helps to have the competition director for the whole shebang living in this area... :-)

Jamie

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Original Ad and location update

I've gotten some questions about the origins of Lacey, the Riff RAF Racing TR6...so here's a link to the original ad as placed by Scott in the LeMons forums...

http://forums.24hoursoflemons.com/viewtopic.php?id=2152

It looks like Flt. Lft. Rohrbach will be taking possession of the car for the all-important recapture the budget parts tearoff (i.e. take off anything we can that's non-essential and sell the heck out of it on eBay). More to report soon...

Signing off,
Flt. Lft. Palmer

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Pictures!




I'm sure Scott's thinking I'm nuts at this point....

On the trailer, ready to head home...thanks, Cristina!