RiffRAF Racing Gets a New Team Member!

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

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!

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

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

Pictures!

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

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

Back home...disassembling the pieces parts...

I worked on the Austin Marina today (don't hurt yourselves laughing, its actually too NICE to be a LeMons contender itself) that's taking up the garage space intended for the TR6. One more day and it should be ready to pass it on to the new owner...then we can start a quick strip of the parts of the 6 that would be better off on eBay...i.e. to pull us back under $500 budget range!
I also ordered a set of tires tonight since they were on fire sale pricing through midnight from Discount Tire Direct. No affiliation, but they've been good to me before.

I have two other team members locked in...hoping to find some other suckers, I mean lunatics, this week....

Flt. Lt. Palmer signing off for tonight. Pictures should be posted this week...

Dateline -- Sandusky, Ohio. 12:31 am.

We're on our way back home. Pickup went perfectly, thanks to Scott, and we even heard the car run (albeit on starting fluid only) for the first time. Interestingly enough, the car is perfect for the task. For example, it's obviously been in some accidents; both the front end and left rear fender are seamed (poorly) where parts from another TR6 have been spliced in. The drivers side sill almost doesn't exist. On the other hand, someone has welded in a new factory floorboard on the driver's side & the engine may have as few as 58k miles; the frame looks straight and solid and there are probably enough parts to strip off to get us far enough below the $500 limit that we may actually be able to add something back!

As the ol' girl (thinking of naming her Lacey, after both Ginger Lacey, the WW2 Spitfire pilot that appeared in the BL ads AND the lovely pattern of holes in the sills, doors, fenders, etc...) was cranked onto the trailer, it almost appeared that she was happy to be entering the fray again...being used as God and the Brits intended, top down and speeding along... :-)

Flt. Lt. Palmer signing off for the night....