build diary

August 9, 2006: I picked up a copy of the September Kit Car mgazine.
It's a good article about the Southwest Se7ens Fest in general and about the four Locosts in particular. We are called "a semi-mythical kit car, sort of the unicorn of handbuilt autos." In the US kit car world with the overwelming popularity of a few models, I can see the logic in that statement even though it made me chuckle at first. The author (Harold Pace) was very kind to me, bestowing the title of "guru of the Locost concept". I don't think I'd go that far myself, but it's still flattering. I do know that Harold has some good photos of my car hidden away, I'll have to see if I can get copies of a few from him. He also captured the reactions of most people to the various cars that showed up without the distraction of instrumented testing.

Meanwhile, the track day at the Flyin' Miata Open House is approaching in a bit over a week. This will mark the second anniversary of the Seven's track christening. Two years ago, I was thrashing away and changing the transmission and chasing fuel problems at the last minute. This year, I'll clean the car and give it a quick check. How times change. Speaking of times, I've also taken 6.2 seconds off my lap time at the track since that first outing and 2.2 seconds since the event last year. It's almost all due to the car setup.

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