Snow!

For the first time since Easter '84 has Santa Pod seen snow at a race event! We had 4-5cm's overnight so as you can imagine not much racing today! The forecast for tomorrow is good though so fingers crossed! Photo's to come off a snowy Pod when we get home!!

Edit - Photo's below!This was the view from our motorhome when we woke up!! Mad!

The snowman on the starting line which Santa Pod's track crew had made!!

Easter Thunderball

Hello from Easter Thunderball at Santa Pod! For the last couple of years we have crewed for Spencer Tramm and his Super Pro ET championship winning VW corrado! This weekend chassis builder extroadinare Chris Isaacs is on driving duties in both his Standard Vangaurd and Spencer's! So far the weather has been incredibly windy but stayed dry most of the day allowing us quite a few passes. As it stands at the moment Chris is no2 qualifier in his super comp Vanguard. More updates to come over the weekend!

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Today's work

Adele started on the long process of stripping the the shell back to bare metal yesterday! I carried on today while i'm off work. I've got some fibre stripping disks on order from Frosts which should make the final bits of paint/primer a bit easier to remove!

Almost there on the firewall, the last few bits are pretty stubborn!

I also started on the rear luggage area which again just needs those last stubborn bits removing!

I received in the post today the first parts for my IRS (Independant Rear Suspension) puzzle. We are using a Type 1 IRS gearbox built by Pete at Cogbox with early Porsche 944 stub axles (shown!) and a combination of 944 and stock bus CV joints.

Front Brakes

I just got word from Jack Sacchette that our front brakes are done and are ready to ship! He has used them in his lastest advert on TheSamba.com so I've added the photo's on here! We will pick them up when we are in the states in a few weeks!!

Jack has also now teamed up with Ron Lummus to form LS Performance "Realizing the need in the industry for years, L S Performance will be dedicated to the manufacture, distribution and support of . PRODUCTS THAT WORK, SUPPORT THAT YOU CAN COUNT ON, DESIGNS THAT WILL ALWAYS BE THE BENCHMARK FOR THE VW INDUSTRY"

The first line of parts are the front and rear lightweight brakes! :D

Home at last photo's!

A sight worth waiting for! It's so cool to finally see the car in the light of day at home. The doors are being replaced as they were already damaged when they arrived. I bought them from Karmann Konnection and there customer service was excellent as they offered to replace the doors for another pair of straight and rust free ones!

Nice arse! The rear wings and valence will fitted with Dzus fasteners once the car goes into Chris Isaacs Racecars.
The new front valence from Autocraft and my NOS resevior panel all welded in and looking great.A close up of the front valence, the bumper holes have been welded up as we are not running any bumpers!
The front channels have been modified so they look more original and not square! The vents are wrong for the year but this car is first and foremost a racecar so i'm not too worried.

The rear window area needed some attention and I'm really pleased with the results!

So now its time for us to get stuck in and start bare metalling the shell and getting it ready for prep-work. The body will be separated from the floorpan and the 'pan sent off for repair very soon!

It's home!!!!!

It's home!! I finally dropped off the car into our workshop tonight after 4 months work by John and Eff at Kings Restorations. Picture update will come tomorrow!!