Speedfest starts tomorrow at North Island Naval Air Station, more racecars, more airplane and helicopter displays, and the "Military Pit Crew Challenge"

 A big variety of factory race cars, NASCAR racecars, entreprenuerial racers, and drifters too

 

 Race cars that haven't been here before were found in the Pits

 and MINI's! About 8 Mini's are going tobe racing in the under 2 liter class (last year there may have been one)

 Wander all over the pits, you will stumble across all kinds of cool things (I found the STIG)

 New aircraft displays!

 the Military Pit Crew Challenge has teams from the Navy and the Marine Corps racing the each other to turn in the fastest time to change the tires and fuel a car... it's for bragging rights, and might become a coast to coast challenge.. totally safe, using water into tanks with pcv dump tubes instead of gas... then reusing the water for the next team. (safe, clean, reuseable)

 

So head over to Coronado Island if you are in San Diego, bothe Saturday and Sunday, and have a great time. Test drive Corvettes or Camaros, see the great big car show behind the grand stands, watch the races, check out the repairs and maintenance in the pits, and spot celebs.... Jay Leno's Big Dog Garage has at least one car racing, I've seen Carroll Shelby here in the past, Adam Corolla races every year... never know what you'll find at the race track

turbo Busa powered 1966 mini Cooper

240 hp at 1500 pounds. Must be really fun! In comparison, the porsche Spyder from the factory weighed about 1250pounds and had 110 hp. A kit car with a tricked out engine will get about 230 hp, so this Cooper has nearly the power to weight of a racing Porsche Spyder. Pretty damn amazing

ultimate gamers chair

found on http://crudmudgeon.tumblr.com

business advertising made easy, stick a small car on the roof, make it a goofy one

Having problems with your new Mini? Is the rear window washer not working? Here is a link to a DIY repair, instead of the $530 dealership charge

http://www.norcalminis.com/2011/01/diy-guide-to-mini-rear-window-washer.html

Creative new idea for advertising larger than billboards, video projection, and not paying billboard companies... I'm in awe of this paradigm breaker

via http://www.autoblog.com

1967 Trabant Kubel... somewhere a WW2 axis staff car is looking at this and thinking "I will call it mini-me! "

from http://route66bitz.tumblr.com/

A MINI is racing in the Dakar (now through South America)

Six BMW X3CCs and the brand new Mini All4 Racing will represent Sven Quandt's team on 13 timed special stages and 5,020km of competitive action in a route of 9,618km over the next 14 days across northern Argentina and Chile.

Quandt has assembled a team of over 80 personnel - the largest line-up in X-raid's eight-year history - to tackle the world's most difficult and infamous off-road rally.

to learn about the Dakar rally http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2011/us/route.html

I learned about the Mini from http://www.ausmotive.com/ but you can shoot straight to the team website http://www.x-raid.de/x-raid-news/News/mini-all4-racing-first-test.htm

Stars and their cars, post 1940's

No doubt you recognize James Garner

Here are Jack Benny, Rochester, and the Maxwell http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/06/jack-benny-and-pres-harry-truman.html

Why is Elvis messing with a Messerschmitt?

Yikes, those aren't good looking glasses

Sean Connery and a Sunbeam Alpine that was his to use during a movie he was making

I hope you recognize Roy Rodgers, I doubt anyone has an unkind word to say about Roy... and he went 107 in a Chrysler station wagon on Bonnevile! http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/06/roy-rodgers-was-bonneville-racer-107.html

North by Northwest, Cary Grant and below Eva Marie Saint

Mick Jagger

Ringo Starr and a Facel Vega

For more stars and their cars:

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/12/old-hollywood-some-stars-and-their-cars.html

One of my favorite advertising campaigns, the Mini

From http://theautoinsiderblog.com/ who focuses on a lot of new and concept cars

El Cajon car cruise got off to a late start for the car show season, here are some cool new things that caught my eye