1968 Camaro - Project "BLUE HOUR"

[Tom Fuehrer]

Eric, I'm pretty sure it was a Honda Civic that beat you at the AX. Do you feel any better now?

[MaxHarvard]

Originally Posted by Tom Fuehrer

Eric, I'm pretty sure it was a Honda Civic that beat you at the AX. Do you feel any better now?

.... I know where you live. Just saying.

[WicKeD_SS]

Very nice write up on your car in the new Camaro Per Mag! Congrats!

[Ron in SoCal]

Originally Posted by WicKeD_SS

Very nice write up on your car in the new Camaro Per Mag! Congrats!

Yep, love the car and the artiice! Must of been fun writing about your own car

[MaxHarvard]

Originally Posted by WicKeD_SS

Very nice write up on your car in the new Camaro Per Mag! Congrats!

Originally Posted by Ron in SoCal

Yep, love the car and the artiice! Must of been fun writing about your own car

Thanks! It's a bit weird to write about yourself, I'll be honest.


Ok, well to give you all an update. I have been extremely busy with the car lately so here goes.

I shot my car a while back in October for Camaro Perfomers and it finally came out! yay!

Check out the July Issue of CP!



So if that's not awesome enough, we went racing....


I went with the moto: "No Regrets" and boy did that ever show. I posted a personal best time of 1:54 at the shortened road course at Road America and left pretty much all I could out on the track and even some paint. That time got me 21st out of 71 entrants. Considering the level of competition, I'm quite happy with my time and where I fell. Last year I ended up in the middle of the pack and this year I vowed to be well over the top %50 and that's exactly what happened. I pushed hard and really took the car much further than it had gone up until this point. Regardless, I did have a little boo-boo.

You can see it here. Skip to 3:30 if you want to see the "OOPS".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYmKLaF3aSU

You can tell my apexes are pretty weak and had a hard time with take off out of the corners, so a lot can still be done suspension and driver-skill wise. Car was lightly damaged, nothing to worry about. Driver was fine. Car even went back out for more laps later.

Here's video of 3 laps of the short course. The red Mustang had a 15 second head start and the one I pass near the end had easily a 45 second lead before I passed him. Such a rush to PASS a car! MAN!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUfQSB8Jj4

Image of damage: Nothing major.



The go-karts this year were JAM PACKED! Holy cow we had a ton of drivers. The team of me, brian finch, Mike Norris and the BFG guy AJ finished 4th out of the 13 (i think, maybe 15) teams. Which, frankly wasn't all that bad all things considered.




We had lots of fun and will certainly do it again, this time I will go sub 1:50 as my goal, we shall see after I tweak the nut behind the wheel.

Here's some obligatory shots from over the weekend.

Bill Goldberg in a wig.


Me and the girlfriend trying to get Mary Pozzi to pretend to be me and drive my car at the event. ( I would have paid her, I swear).



Jim trying to help another fellow racer and camaro guy after his engine had some problems.




Me and the little lady


And finally, for now anyways (have 800 or more shots) an image my GF took. So rare to actually see a picture of me driving since I'm always behind the camera.

[tubbed69]

Super cool car,nice to see it in Camaro Performers.

[glassman]

And very nice to see you drive it like its meant, and the patina is earned!!

Will it be hard to match the paint on such a repair?

[chr2002ca]

Just saw your spread in Camaro Performers. Have always loved your ride and reading your build thread. Congrats on the press and more great recognition and coverage by CP. That racing pic looks sick also. Great job.

[WSSix]

I like the action shot. Your girlfriend did a great job with that one. Congrats on doing better this year than last too.

[MaxHarvard]

Originally Posted by WSSix

I like the action shot. Your girlfriend did a great job with that one. Congrats on doing better this year than last too.

Thank you!

And thanks for all the compliments fellas!

BuddyP over at Pro-touring said that I haven't updated things in a while and I thought what the hell... let's keep'er rolling!

Ok, where to start... Well, I got on TV, 3 times!... LOL! That's a start.

I haven't seen it yet, but the MAV TV premiere of the OUSCI race showed a few very clear shots of my car. Here's one and in the panning shot you can see the girlfriend riding shot gun.




Then, I volunteered to be a part of the demonstrations for Car Craft Magazine Summer Nationals because they needed "pretty cars" for the cameras LOL. Kinda neat to the an autox all to myself!

CHannel 4 (local)



Channel 9 did a full 2 minute deal with the car where the reporter rode with me, MA Rosko is her name and she was really fun to have with!

Here's the shot of the interview I gave.


Me and MA Rosko



A shot of her on LIVE TV... If you look closely you can see the wide eyed grin expression HA!


Some of you may know Jesse Riggle and Troy Borgen. I hosted them at my house during the Car Craft show. Jesse had an accident and flipped his trailer, which held his twin turbo Trans-Am. It didn't fair well unfortunately, but Jesse was unhurt.



Hot rodding isn't always about wrenching on cars.


Camaro got some new hoops from Falken! YAY!! STICKIER RUBBER!! Those KDW's just weren't cutting it.



Went to a car show with a axle dyno by TPIS of CHaska MN. Not bad, 450rwhp. Feels slow *sad face*


Wanted SOOOO badly to try out the new rubber at the last autox of the year, but it rained... so poop on that idea.

Yea.. its wet. I still beat a couple C6's so i feel better.





Finally, in the winter there's not a lot of racing opportunities unless you have a snow rally car. So, my boy (he's 3) loves racing GT5 on my PS3 with the wheel. I asked him if he wanted a go-kart.... I think we have another racer on our hands!



That's all for now!