From garnethertz at gmail.com Thu May 29 01:55:54 2008 From: garnethertz at gmail.com (Garnet Hertz) Date: Thu May 29 01:56:05 2008 Subject: [dorkbotsocal-announce] Dorkbot SoCal 29 - Make:Way Team gets 33rd Place - 8pm Thursday, May 29, 2008 Message-ID: Dorkbot SoCal 29 - Make:Way Team gets 33rd Place ***** Thursday, May 29, 2008 ***** 8:00pm ***** Machine Project ***** 1200 D North Alvarado Street ***** Los Angeles, CA Hear the gut-wrenching tale of four plucky men and a crappy car who made a foolish fantasy into a foolish reality! Earlier this year, Make: magazine agreed to sponsor Jason Torchinsky in fielding an entry into the 2008 24 Hours of Lemons motor race: an endurance race for cars valued at $500 or less. Jason gathered the best people in the field of enough free time and some interest in racing a shitbox: Tom Jennings, Brett Doar, and Sloan Fader. A 1993 Ford Escort LX was purchased for $300, and the work began. In the end, The Make:Way car came in 33rd out of nearly 90 entries-- a far better result than ever hoped for. Come see what the team did, how they did it, and see the 33rd-place-winning car itself! Press coverage: http://jalopnik.com/391333/huge-wing-eyeballs-propel-makeway-escort-to-33rd+place-lemons-finish The project: http://www.makewayracing.com More event info: http://machineproject.com/2008/05/27/makeway/ Dorkbot SoCal: http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotsocal/