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RacinM3
08-27-04, 10:27 AM
http://rotarynews.com/images/fullsize/Aug6_02-787b.jpg
rosawendel
08-27-04, 10:44 AM
good thing that box is labeled....
Michaelhatesfans
08-27-04, 11:15 AM
I built that car - well, a 1/24 version of it, anyway! :gomer:

Damned decals gave me fits, but it looked great in the end!

(Geek session over...)
Steve99
08-27-04, 11:43 AM
I would have used more bubble wrap and packing peanuts, especially if UPS is involved.
RichK
08-27-04, 11:47 AM
Cool! I actually built a similar crate when I sold my first Formula Vee to a guy on the East Coast.

It cost about $300 in materials to make, and I ran 2X4s through the frame in all directions so that the crate could be lifted upside down. I wonder if the guy ever got the car out! :laugh:
mapguy
08-27-04, 11:49 AM
Cool! I actually built a similar crate when I sold my first Formula Vee to a guy on the East Coast.

It cost about $300 in materials to make, and I ran 2X4s through the frame in all directions so that the crate could be lifted upside down. I wonder if the guy ever got the car out! :laugh:

I'll ask Dick about it next time I see him....
:)
RichK
08-27-04, 11:51 AM
I'll ask Dick about it next time I see him....
:)

:laugh:
Well, I sold it to a different guy before Dick bought it. He is a dentist, I think, and (hopefully he's not reading this) he stuffed it into a wall at Lime Rock a few months later.
:(
mapguy
08-27-04, 11:58 AM
:laugh:
Well, I sold it to a different guy before Dick bought it. He is a dentist, I think, and (hopefully he's not reading this) he stuffed it into a wall at Lime Rock a few months later.
:(

If it is who I think it is would his initials be RZ from Connecticut? He ran a BRD a few years ago and sold it and then got a Vector.
RichK
08-27-04, 12:01 PM
If it is who I think it is would his initials be RZ from Connecticut? He ran a BRD a few years ago and sold it and then got a Vector.

Yes, that's him! Looks like he's quite the Vee ho!
mapguy
08-27-04, 03:21 PM
Yes, that's him! Looks like he's quite the Vee ho!

Last thing that I heard was that he sold his whole Vee kit (trailer, spares et al) and got out of Vees. Switched classes. I think that he is now a door slammer.
RichK
08-27-04, 03:33 PM
Last thing that I heard was that he sold his whole Vee kit (trailer, spares et al) and got out of Vees.

I'm joining his club:
for sale (http://www.team-orange.com/forsale.htm)

C'mon mapguy, I know you want it! I can build a bitchin' crate!
mapguy
08-27-04, 03:46 PM
I'm joining his club:
for sale (http://www.team-orange.com/forsale.htm)

C'mon mapguy, I know you want it! I can build a bitchin' crate!

Jeez, I can't even afford your radios.
FCYTravis
08-28-04, 01:19 PM
Rich, noooooooo :cry:

Are you forsaking the formula to go race two-wheeled suicycles? ;)
Clown
08-28-04, 09:41 PM
God damn I love the 787B - Greatest sportscar ever :)
RichK
08-30-04, 02:18 PM
Rich, noooooooo :cry:

Are you forsaking the formula to go race two-wheeled suicycles? ;)


I'd prefer to keep racing cars, but it's just too damned expensive. :(

I'll probably get a bike for some track days so that I can keep visiting the racetrack.
PopOffValve
09-01-04, 04:20 PM
I also have a model of it that's waiting to be built.

RacinM3, what's the story behind it? Surely it's going to a museum?
RichK
09-01-04, 05:01 PM
I also have a model of it that's waiting to be built.

RacinM3, what's the story behind it? Surely it's going to a museum?

Looks like the car was just at the Monterey Historics, perhaps it was shipped there in the crate:

http://images.rotarynews.com/images/LagunaSeca20040815/small/img_2667.jpg
PopOffValve
09-01-04, 10:19 PM
wow, that's just a beautiful shot.
RacinM3
09-02-04, 12:11 AM
You got it, Rich, that's just how they get it to and from different events.
Sean O'Gorman
09-02-04, 12:54 AM
Maybe it is just me, but I would be way too nervous about shipping a Le Mans-winning Mazda in a wooden box.