The Awakening

like the Grinch, when his heart grew two sizes;

        the Scarecrow, when he got a brain;

        and Scrooge, when he finally understood the meaning of Christmas;

Captain Vogler started proclaiming sensible things:

"How about this tactic - reliability. It's not as exciting or fun as having gobs of power, but it will get us more laps."

"I surrender attempts for insane horsepower increases."

More Themes

How's about a Dr. Seuss theme, with big rounded wheel flares. Red Fish and Blue Fish on the roof. Brian dressed as Cat in the Hat, Kevin and Eric dressed as Thing 1 and Thing 2. Maybe Chris could get us technical advise from his Universal buddies, or let us borrow props?

Burberry theme. Plaid car, buy a set of knock-off burberry luggage to strap in the trunk. Jared and Kevin wear Burberry plaid sunglasses and carry plaid purses.

Make car resemble Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot 1672 steam car. Possibly get extra credit points for recreating Cugnot's first ever automobile accident where the vehicle goes out of control and crashes through a brick wall.

Hard-a-Port

Based on research, I may have to admit that I underestimated the benefits of head porting on the 1.9 L CVH engine. It still would require a different throttle body, benefit from a different cam, needs an exhaust header, and requires reprograming the ECM. I think turbocharging might be cheaper, but less stealth.

The New Theme

Per Capt. Vogler, a new theme is needed. Perhaps due to the fact that there are no more t-shirts available from http://www.teamstevemcqueenracing.co.uk/

Your author's lame ideas:

• Copy one of the BMW Art Cars - perhaps Alexander Calder's?
• AviCar (shamless play on Avitar). Paint car blue. Wear blue morph suits. Drivers to wear green contact lenses. Fans to wear 3-D glasses
• Sponsorship from Tide (the detergent)
• Spiderman theme, with webs across window openings. Eric to wear spandex.
• Plaid car, or striped car, or polka dot car (Wonder Bread theme?)
• Jagermeister Racing. Jager Bomb.
• Strip car to bare metal. No additional development on this plan
• Martini and Rossi. Classic livery with red and blue stripes. Natural progression from Gulf.
• Portray car as Mercury Tracer ('stead of Escort), capitalize on rich 50's Mercury lead slead heritige (think Hirohata Merc) with fender skirts, flames, lake pipes, fuzzy dice, curb feelers. Captain Vogler to wear fish net stockings.

I dunno - anyone else got any ideas?

I have a dream

Recent suggestion to make the car faster:
We need to find a way to add 50 hp and take out another 300 lbs, preferably from the front end.
There have been some serious discussions to adding a turbo charger - but pessimistic team members refuse to believe that this will increase the car's reliability.

Third time?

Breaking official news:

Right now it looks like we will be entering the LeMons race at Gingerman Raceway on the west side of Michigan, July 15-->
17th.  Kevin

LeMons 2010

Since I don't plan to attend next year, the other guys are free to run wild with the theme.

Kevin wants to take the Gulf Oil livery thing further, with a transporter and 70's hair.

Dr. Jared (son-of-Rod) wants to dress like a doctor, while everyone else dresses like tele-tubbies. The car would be dressed like Noo-noo.