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build diary July 21, 2006: Track day tomorrow! I had some new tires waiting, so I jacked up the trailer to pull off the wheels. That's when the axle broke loose of the frame! That's not good. At least it happened when the trailer was parked in front of a shop with full welding gear and not on top of a pass in the middle of the night with the Seven on board! I flipped the trailer up on its side, pulled off the wheels, took them in for the new tires, welded the axle to the frame (it had not been a stellar job last time), welded up a couple of other small cracks, rewired the whole lighting system from scratch, reinstalled the wheels and then went home to pack. Hey, we do this because it's fun, right? Sometimes it's hard to remember. The trailer is going to need some fundamental attention in the next year or so as it's about 30 years old. Car and Driver has aired the radio show with a segment on "the homebuilts". It's not a high point in broadcast journalism and the hosts really don't say a whole lot worth listening to. Their research seems to consist of looking at pictures in the magazine after the segment has already started and making disparaging comments about the looks of Jon's amazing homebuilt nose cone. Larry Webster does have a number of good things to say about my car though, identified as "the expensive one". You can listen to it here. Things really get rolling around the 9 minute mark. Don't take the opinions of the hosts as being representative of Car and Driver, they're just typical guys who are hired for their ability to talk on demand as far as I can tell. One note - I'm not under 30. C&D just decided I was for some reason. entry 1266 of 1439 |