Re: THe NAC Lots-O-Post Thread
Interesting day today.
It started yesterday morning, I towed in a geo prism that went sideways into a tree. Later that day the owner brought us the title, and I decided to make it my enduro car for figure 8 racing. After work, I stripped it and added the required safety shit. about halfway through prepping the car, a train stops behind the building, and a few minutes later my boss shows up, along with 2 DEP officers, and some woman from a wildlife rescue company. Turns out someone on the trail noticed a injured owl, and I ended up spending the next hour trying to find it with everyone else. We couldnt find it in the dark, so the woman from the rescue company gave me a crash course in owl catching and my boss told be to try and catch it when I got into work in the morning.
Finished up the car around 10, grabbed some dinner, and headed home. went to bed around 11:30, only to be woken up for a wrecker call 20 minutes later. get home, and then get another call. Ended up doing 6 calls last night, and got maybe an hours sleep.
I get into work this morning, and went owl hunting. Took about 20 minutes to find her, but I caught to owl.
Its a great horned owl.
Get done with work, loaded my enduro car, and headed up to the hebron fair to race it in the double figure 8 race.
I started 6th in a 7 car heat, and managed to get to the front in the first lap, then lapped the field by the 5th lap. on the last lap, going into the end turn hard, I got tagged in the rear quarter just enough to make me go head on into the dirt filled loader tire that you had to go around at about 35mph. People told me after the rear of the car came off the ground when I hit. something let go in the transmission when I hit, because I backed off the tire, and when I put it in gear, it barely moved, so I did the last half a lap on the rev limiter, and ended up 3rd.
on the way back to the pits, still on the rev limiter the engine locked up.
I guess I am done racing for the year.
