Think Racing

Back together and running

The last several weekends have been a blur of activity. Wiring issues sorted, starter issues sorted, nearly a hundred things resolved, but for the most part, the car is done, running and ready for the next race.

I was very pleased with how everything has come together, and I have enjoyed solving those problems as they have arisen. Now, I look forward to getting the car on track and fully sorted.
This weekend I backed the car out of the garage to see if she would pull forward under her own power, which she did. It had not occurred to me until this moment though, that this was the very first appearance outside of the garage that the Biscuit had made since we moved to Pennsylvania.

We are off to Virginia this weekend to finish up-fitting my new trailer - installing the AC, painting the undercarriage and hanging the dry erase board, Think Racing clock and McConnell family Crest (tradition). It is coming back with us, so I can start loading it for the Labor Day race at Summit Point.

I admit that I get a lot of pleasure from essentially building this car from scratch in three months, but I am also glad to see it together again. I'll probably leave it together for a while now. We are going to move on to dad's car and I want to start studying some of my spare engines, so I can learn to build them myself. I've also thought some about the long-term possibility of adding another car to stable as a "foster" car that I would rent to other drivers. A Sprite or Midget that runs as a limited prep SCCA production racer. It would not be fast, but people could rent it for schools, to maintain their license, or for more experience. That would be a fun little side business and give me more time at the track than I get when I'm paying the bills with a little help from sponsors. I'm just thinking out loud.

Fun times ahead.