More Speedfest stuff

I just thought I would throw these videos up that other people had taken at the speed festival

What happens when I get bored

Angela was here last weekend with the Holiday, we did a whole lot of nothing, just hung out, watched some movies and spent some time with friends. This was a flex week so I ended up with a three day weekend this weekend also. The fair was in town this weekend, so I didn't go to that :) I was going to go to the demo derby today, but you have to pay for two admissions just to get into the derby - so that was out. They had a parade yesterday, but I managed to do some major sleeping in this weekend and missed that also.

So, what to do? How about painting...the truck.

The hood has been looking really bad for a while so I thought I might try to paint it. First thing was me trying to get the clear coat that was left on the hood off - what was left was really tough.
I got to a point with the sanding and decided that was enough - I'm sure I'll regret that later.
I bought a couple of work lights in case it got late, they were $5 each, which I thought was a deal.

Through down some masking material and go to painting.
Not bad for spray cans. The color matches really well, but you can still see the scratches and such that I got to hasty to sand out (and where there was still the clear underneath).

Is just red good enough? I think not.
I officially hate trying to get pinstripes straight...Ready for paint...

Removing all the plastic...There it is, I think the paint will even once it dries a little more and is clear coated. I am still trying to figure out if there is anything else I want to do before I clear it.So there it is, I like it, and I think it should last at least as long as the rest of the paint on the truck.

Silver Medalist

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Apparently they had leftovers from last year, because it has 2007 on the plate, but I don't really care.

Speed Fest Pictures

Here's the link, I took a few: 617 Pictures.

If you think your car is ugly, you could just make a new body for it:

Festival of Speed

Last weekend I headed down to San Diego for their Fleet Week and the Festival of Speed. It was two days of Vintage car racing along with a large car show.

Some only have three wheels and two cylinders:Trans Am series group, there were nearly 40 cars in this class and the racing was really good:
A picture of part of the car show, the BMW club was in the row behind me and then a mustang club behind that. There was a line of stock cars along the back fence that they let run in a exhibition race.
The Ferrari club of San Diego had a pretty big group there:
68 Horsepower to the wheels:
Cuda 440 6-pack
Old racing Vette (licensed for the street)

Cruise to Big Bear

This weekend I finally got to do something fun with the car again. Its been a real drag not having any autocross events or anything to go to. I had to start by driving down to San Bernardino (120 mi) to meet with the rest of the group. When I got to the meeting place, I was only 10 minutes early and the parking lot was empty. I sat and watched as a bunch of older cars drove by (apparently part of the Route 66 Cruise) and waited. Right about 10 am the next car drove up, both of us were surprised that we were the only two there - and so we waited. About 10 minutes later about a dozen more came around the corner. We talked for a bit to wait for any stragglers and then took off for Big Bear Lake. This was the route we took as far as I remember. Starting at B and ending at C (~100 mi). The other part is rom my entire drive (~340 mi). We went to the lake and hung out there for quite a while, the lodge we were at was having a BBQ and one of the members owns a timeshare there so we were able to get tickets. Some of the group rented boats to go out on the lake and the rest of us chatted and played in the rec room. When we were done at the lodge we went down to the Alpine Slide (http://www.alpineslidebigbear.com/). I have to say it looked like a lot of fun and I'll have to try it next time. I think the original plan was to go back out the way we came, but that changed and we ended up making the big loop instead. Here is a picture that was took as we were coming out of the mountains. I am hoping that some of the others got some good pictures, most of mine didn't come out very well. Next weekend is off to San Diego for the speed fest.

Buffed

The cars paint was starting to look little old so I decided to try to do something about it; like I tried with the truck, but less extreme (more on that once it looks better). So I went and bought the best Wal-Mart buffer money could get - it actually feels like its pretty good quality, I also got the other stuff - wax, clothes, extra buffer bonnets, etc. I am pretty happy with the results so far, I didn't pull it out of the garage yet to see how it looks in the sunlight.

This is what the roof (worst part) looked like - car was washed Saturday, so none of its dust.
And this is what it looked like after some buffing - Way better! I think it might need a little more, like I said, I haven't had it out in the day light yet.
I also gave it a try on the hood, but it didn't show a difference like the roof did. Probably because its in a lot better shape.

And that was how I spent this weekend.