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A little fun was had at the Scuderia's main testing facility today, including the senior Kouba taking a few passes down the hill.  Car ran extremely smoothly and we both made a few nice passes on the small hill at the house:

In action:

In motion:
https://goo.gl/photos/aQQ5ZG9cebQzF72e8

And me as well:
https://goo.gl/photos/fbEoZaQoenZ87Cw48

Chris

What?????  Pulling the plug before the end of the championship?  Hardly seems respectful for a track which has supported the wasting of so much time for so many......

Did you sell???  Or just getting it ready for on the market?

Sounds tough being retired!

I'd be happy to run BOTH classes!  We can run as late into the evening as anyone else wants...

Well yes, technically I did say motor bike but should have said mini bike...  Probably not cool enough to hang with a Harley:

Still need to put a throttle cable on it and connect the drivetrain up, but at least the motor is now mounted to the frame and RUNNING!

CK

This week's update-

Bill was hard at work on his bodywork/paneling:

And by the end of the session, he had something like this:

He has one panel on the nose cone, two panels at the front of the chassis, and then the tail to panel up and then he's off to paint.

Dave made awesome progress this week.  That guy builds each Thurs, then goes back to his cave and knocks out his homework, and comes back the workshop with all the pieces and parts to knock together whatever he wants built that week.  This man is ON IT!

Dave at work:

Not many photos of the "during", but Dave went home with a roller!:

I did a little work on mine as well. At this point, I have only a little red which needs to be applied to the nose of the chassis and I think I'm done. 

Using some aluminum round stock, I built a new "steering wheel" which looks remarkably similar to a bike handlebar:

After cutting out and mounting the last of the body panels, I shot some primer and paint on them.  This morning, I rolled it out for a photo shoot to see what it looks like outside of the shop.  I need to add just a small band of red at the nose of the chassis, but will wait til everything is dried/cured before masking.  I think it looks pretty darn good right now though:

And to complete this week's activities, I spent some quality time with the motor bike from Mr Smith and it now starts and idles.  I picked up a throttle lever and ordered some chain for it, so I hope to have it moving shortly (although the chain will be 2-4 wks before it arrives).  I'll work on the throttle control until then.

Once we get Bill's and Dave's set up, it will be time to head out to the hills again.  Looking forward to that!

Chris

Yep, just testing to see if anyone is paying attention...

Astute observers will notice the title of this thread has changed...  It is pulled in a week due to the Portland Swap Meet conflict.  I talked to them and they agreed to move their dates, and then I realized the inconvenience it'd put you guys through, so I called them back and told them I'd change my date instead.

So it's now Even Thursday Race Night, March 30th, Casa Kouba, doors at 4, racing sometime after 6.

Probably will have the mini-championship round again: Trans Am, Le Mans, & Classics 1.  Bring your BRM's and 50's cars too if you want to run after the show.

If someone has a compulsion to run other classes, I am open to suggestions...

CK

It might be good to give a potential buyer an idea of the size of its footprint too.

CK