An early Christmas for all of us here at TARP Team Worldwide HQ and Pie Eatery: our application for the Houston LeMons race has been accepted! I just got the confirmation email from race organizer/grand poobah Jay Lamm.
On another note, I’ll probably be mostly radio silent for about the next week since we’ll be traveling for the Christmas holidays. Merry Christmas to all! Come the first weekend in January, it will be time to start pushing this thing forward. Next step: finish wheels/brakes and get started on the roll cage.
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Author: Pat
Gentlemen, time to kiss your rabbit’s feet or pick four leaf clovers or keep your fingers crossed, or whatever it is that you do for luck, as I’ve submitted our team application for the Gator-A-Rama LeMons event in Houston. We are officially a registered team; now we just have to hope our entry is accepted. Props to Brad for taking the essay part of the application by the horns.
On a related matter, I discovered today that there is a 24 Hours of LeMons Yahoo Group. Looks pretty official, what with the race organizer being the group organizer too. So if you want to join that group and get all the updates and scuttlebutt, just head on over to Yahoo Groups and look for the 24hoursofLeMons group.
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Author: Pat
Brad here.
According to LeMons, this is the goal of the essay portion of the application: “Use this space to tell us why your team will be so much cooler than all those other lame-o’s who want the same spot on the grid.”
Working off of our TARP theme and everybody’s driving stories, I’ve come up with the following. Have at it. If you see a typo or an inaccuracy, tell me. If you think an example or turn of phrase is lame, say so. If you don’t like the whole thing, I can start over. But please fire away today, so we can send this in pronto.
Thanks! (ed.: essay text after the jump)
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Author: Brad
Congrats on the new MR2. I’m glad to hear at least one of our cars runs.
Now, for this race entry, I need to know an embarrassing driving story about all of the drivers. (You’ll see why when I circulate a draft.) I know my story. Dave’s will be that he doesn’t know how to drive a stick. Other drivers, what’s your story?
Please send me something today, and I’ll get cracking.
Thanks.
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Author: Brad
I still have to write something on the application. I’ve heard about a TARP car with logos of failed businesses stuck on like a NASCAR. I’ve heard about adding a pirates element to that idea. Whatever we do, we need to settle on something fairly soon.
At the moment, I prefer NASCAR stickers to pirates, but I’m open to ideas.
Please discuss.
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While Pat and Dave have been hard at work on the car, and “MEM” (hello, MEM) on advising about the car, I’ve been working hard too…at networking.
Seemed to me that if I’m going to write this up for Spirit, I need to get the OK from the head of the Lemons group. Otherwise, things like photography would get tricky at the event. So I called head honcho Jay Lamm. Here’s a summary of our conversation, slightly edited:
BC: I want to do a story about a driving team that I’d be a part of at the Houston Lemons race for Spirit magazine.
JM: The one with 3.2 million readers?
BC: Yes.
JM: Go ahead and send in your application. But when you do, let me know. I’ll take care of it.
So I’m given to understand that I could send in an entry that says “it’s me,” and we’re in.
My work here is done.
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