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Re: How You Doing? 2009
« Reply #330 on: August 23, 2009, 10:47:46 am »
We got rained out Friday half way down to Davenport, IA for the national qualifier, a 3 hour trip for nothing.  We raced in Beaver Dam last night and I won my heat and the feature.  Its been almost 2 months since I won my last feature so this won feels pretty good.  I have been having a lot of little issues with my engine that I have finally gotten behind me and its running great now.
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Re: How You Doing? 2009
« Reply #331 on: August 23, 2009, 10:55:13 am »
That was a nice run last night Jeff, you too Joey, with the 2nd place finish.
1st and 2nd for legendsracer.com!

I was able to make enough laps one at a time to finish 16th...woo hoo!
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Re: How You Doing? 2009
« Reply #332 on: August 25, 2009, 02:22:24 am »
Didn't have a good night on saturday. Spun on the last lap in the heat race and got hit pretty hard in the LF and LR. I think the final damage was 2 broken tie rods, bent lf lower a-arm, broken spindle and ball joint, broken lr and rr trailing arms, bent panhard bar and broken upper link, both left side wheels were bent really badly and the lf fender is cracked from front to back in 2 spots. I also think the steering rack took a good hit and is bent up pretty good. After the heat race when i saw my car i thought my season was over and definately the night...but i have to send a HUGE thanks to all the guys that repaired my car. I was hoping just to get it on the trailer for the night, but somehow with the help of 10-12 people including my dad and DJ they put it together for the feature. I wasn't planning on running the full feature and i didn't. Around lap 6 or 7 i decided to pull off. Couldn't risk anything else happening but i was surprised the car was actually running ok and running with the back of the pack cars after they put it together so fast.

Again i have to send a big thanks to all the people that put my car back together and got me back on track.
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Re: How You Doing? 2009
« Reply #333 on: August 28, 2009, 04:33:06 pm »
Our car has been doing pretty decent this year when we're not spun or collected by a wreck.  The worst we've done w/o being involved in an incident is a 3rd w/ 2 Feature wins and 3 Heat wins (out of 5 full race nights) thanks to our talented driver Paul DeJong.

The car is still in pieces at the race shop after our first decent wreck that we actually made contact w/ something.
-rear frame rails folded over (replaced w/ welded in new stock)
-rear end long tube bent, LR lollypop torn away from tube (replaced w/ "straightened" rear end)
-RR rim bent
-short axle bent at flange (replaced)
-trailing arms bent (replaced)
-LR shock sheared off at lower  (replaced)
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Re: How You Doing? 2009
« Reply #334 on: August 28, 2009, 04:34:10 pm »
more pics
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Re: How You Doing? 2009
« Reply #335 on: August 28, 2009, 04:35:51 pm »
and more pics...

frame rail repair (thank you to the Cdn government for teaching me to weld) and body hanging from ceiling (poor '34 Ford)
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Re: How You Doing? 2009
« Reply #336 on: August 28, 2009, 05:40:25 pm »
Maybe I'd try harder if we had trophy girls like that...
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Re: How You Doing? 2009
« Reply #337 on: August 28, 2009, 10:43:30 pm »
Heres the highly unattractive at this point "new" car...
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Re: How You Doing? 2009
« Reply #338 on: August 28, 2009, 11:28:59 pm »
Dude, that car looks in my price range!!  How much and where did you find it?   Are you hiding a full out Blitz 4 w/ red boxes in that sleeper?  Seriously, I would love to see a car that looks like that stomp the competition once in awhile.

What happened w/ your old car?  (I might not have kept up w/ previous posts :) )
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Re: How You Doing? 2009
« Reply #339 on: August 28, 2009, 11:57:12 pm »
Price can't be disclosed.  ;D ..found in Western Idaho.
It wont look like that when it hits the track next year...is already undergoing transformation.

Note...if its ugly, buy it anyway. Paints cheap, but finding out that its a wrap that somebody spraypainted over is even cheaper! Underneath the wrap its 2 tone Metallic blue and Pearl white...so far what has been peeled off looks very nice. Have my nieces working on un-wrapping it...

Other car is fine, but just can't pass on a good deal, and I've always wanted a back-up since "The Big Wreck of 2008"...video below
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Re: How You Doing? 2009
« Reply #340 on: August 29, 2009, 12:04:45 am »
If you find another one of those ugly "price cannot be disclosed" cars, I'd like to be the first number on your speed dial.  ;) 
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Re: How You Doing? 2009
« Reply #341 on: August 29, 2009, 08:41:23 pm »
Another rain-out... :P
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Re: How You Doing? 2009
« Reply #342 on: August 29, 2009, 10:42:11 pm »
hey Jim,
didn't you have fun waiting for them to cancel them tonight?

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Re: How You Doing? 2009
« Reply #343 on: August 29, 2009, 11:13:54 pm »
As a matter of fact, yes, it was a blast. You should have tried waiting around both hours without an enclosed trailer  :P
I will say that I appreciate them trying to get the show in with only 1 more regular season night left
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Re: How You Doing? 2009
« Reply #344 on: August 30, 2009, 12:42:30 pm »
Well had my best run of the season going this past friday in Mandan.  Was runing 2nd and 3rd for most of the night, and the leaders were not runningaway from me. Then it happened...... I flipping looped the car causing the caution. >:(  Restarted 16th, and made a run back to the front with 6 laps left.... ending upin ninth.  Th car was awesome and so was the track.  If only I wouldn't have spun.... who knows what would have happened.

7 more races left this season and still hoping to pull a feature win.

Joe