One More Week:

ONe more week then I have three days off. The Sundance Film Festival ends Monday, until then and through next wednsday I am putting in usuall 12 + hours a night. Film people are different let me tell you. Most of them are nice, just different. I gave a ride to some members of "Velvet Revolver" the other night. I had no idea at the time who they were, I thought they were just some little garage band.

I should have made enough money by Monday night to get the new telephoto lens that I want and some of the other items that I want and need for the summer picture taking. I am really looking forward to the summer racing season.

As soon as I can, like next weekend I'll try and catch up on posting photos, etc.

Thanks, see ya soon.

Renalut Grand Prix car

Last August at Miller I came across this 1906 Renault Grand Prix car. My research says this is a 90 hp model and had a 13 litre engine. Renault went back to a convential chassis as oppossed to the previous underslung chassis. Renault also introduced detachable rims on this car to speed tire changing. This car was capable of nearly 100 mph. Considering the condition of the roads on the early 1900's those drivers had balls that would put an elephant to shame. Either that they were just plain crazy. I think I'll go with the huge balls.

Any way it is a really pretty car and has a place in automotive history. This car raced extensively in the U.S.

Happy Flipping Birthday to Me:

Today is my birthday, big flipping whoop de doo! The Queen of Chaos and Little Crow are on their way down for cake and ice cream before I have to go to work.

I may not be able to post very much for the next couple of weeks as I am working 6 days a week and 12 hour days. The Sundance Film Festival starts tomorrow and I said I would work a couple of extra days. The only good thing is that I hope to use the extra income to buy a new really long telephoto lens for the up coming racing season at Miller. I do have Saturdays off and will try and at least make a post on the weekend.

Miller has their schedule out and it is a full one. I figure that once the season starts I will be at the track just about three weekends out of four. At that time I am cutting back my schedule to three days a week so that I will have more time for the track. I have already given Terri my request for weekends that I will be out at the track.

The Dan Gurney F-1 Eagle

The Eagle had a short life span of only three racing seasons. With the help of the GoodYear tire company Dan hired Len Terry to design and help build an American Formula 1 car. Dan also contracted with Westlake to design and build a new V12 engine. The Westlake engine was a little slow in coming and for the first few races Dan used a four-cylinder Coventry Climax engine. The Climax engine was nowhere near having enough power but helped to sort out the car in the 1966 season.
The Eagle came home with a superb victory at Spa Belgium in 1967. This race win is the only Formula 1 victory for an American car owned and driven by an American. Very few Formula 1 racecars have the style and beauty of the Eagle. While this car had a short career in Formula 1 and only scored one major victory it is still a landmark car in American racing history. I was sort of disappointed that they only had the car out for a few hours at Miller, I am just thankful that I was there and was able to get these photos.

Dan Gurney F-1 Eagle

I have been sick for the past week. It seems I got a case of Strept Throat. I will be going back to work for the first time in a week today. I have not felt good enough to do anything on the computer while I was sick.

Today I am posting a few pictures of Dan Gurnery's F-1 Eagle. I came across this car while at Miller this year. They only had the car out of the trailer for a few hours and I was fortunate enough to get these photos while it was out. The car came in Tom Malloy's trailer with his GT 40 MkIV and Toyota GTP Eagle, they also has a Kurtis 500 sports car and a Mercedes Benz 300 SL Gull Wing in their also. I really wanted to see the Kurtis but they never got it out of the trailer.

Jaguar XK-E

I am posting 5 more picture of this neat Jag.

Jaguar XK-E racer

One of my absolute favorite race cars at Miller in the past two summers is this Jaguar XK-E. I can not remember seeing a nicer Jaguar or for that matter a nicer race car of any kind. This car is not only fast but looks just great.