I lived in the Sunset for the first 6 months of 2001 and then lived in Mill Valley from July 2001 through April 2003. Then moved down to HB and have been here for the last 11 years. Steve Pardini's name sounds vaugely familiar to me, but I didn't have the car up north other than to strip it so I could drop it off at Maeco. I did have a guy named Vash, who claimed to be a race mechanic from Romania and who lived in a van, help me a little bit up there. Guy was as crazy as they came and was always hanging around at Sears and Laguna.

I've found a ton of pictures for this thread. Resizing them all is sort of time consuming, but I'm working on it.

Man... I miss this car. And let me just say it now, since it will become something of a catch phrase in this thread... "F*ck boats!"

Cool. I was at 17th & Lawton in 2001-2002.

Sorry to hear that. :D

That's funny. Other side of the park right? I was on 17th between California and Lake for 6 months.

Yep. I was in the Sunset. You, however, were in the Richmond.

Been awhile I guess. :lol:

My memory is awful! And as you know you're absutely correct! Haha. I'll chalk it up to getting a 2.5 year contact high from living in Marin.

Friday nights up at the Petaluma dirt oval were always a great time. All my redneck buddies from back home would trip out that I was "in San Francisco" and still found a way to catch a dirt modified race every week!

Keep it coming! It's been a long time, but I know Mike at Maeco Motorsports.You look familair too Sean..You ever get out to the dirt track races anymore??

I'd imagine we must have met at some point. Seems like we've spent a lot of time in the same circles. I raced SCCA/NASA Pro7 in 2000 and 2001. I was around a lot through 2004 doing rent-a-rides and karting even though my Camaro wasn't done. I ran my Camaro for a couple of years, somewhat infrequently (daughter born in 2004 and son born in 2005) and did a lot of karting throgh 2009. Boats and kids' sports kind of took over.

My buddies who had the VFX shop on Haskell drag raced for a while (nostalgia blown alky FED) and then ran a bit of AIX in a blue second gen Camaro and then ran the FFR series for a bit (one in an orange FFR Cobra and the other in a blue FFR Cobra). I was around with them quite a bit as well.

OK, I'm going to work backwards a bit and give you guys the pay-off right away on this. Here's the photo set that went to ultimate buyer in Australia.

It shows where we ultimately got to with the car's development (although there were more steps in the works if we'd kept with it). So, there's some weird looking stuff that were really band-aids for stuff that didn't work on the car initially. I'll throw the pictures up and then I can explain stuff as a follow up.

My recollection is we ultimately got the car down to a 1:32 at big willow (I remember a '31, but I'm trying to factor in the optimism of time). I know that Ryan Flaherty and I both ran nearly the same lap time in the car that day. I did it in a fire suit shifting at 8,200 and he did it in jeans and a t-shirt shifting at 6,000...

And now the dress comes off...

A bit more "adult content".