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Emma Peel

October 31, 2009 / Dent Devil / Comments Off

I’m sitting here (mostly confined to the motor coach) writing about the Chump Car race and waiting for some pizza and I notice something that had caught my attention a few weeks ago. An unusually large number of people seem to find this blog while searching for “Emma Peel” – Dianna Rigg, the actress that played the part, is famous mostly for the role of Peel in the Television show “The Avengers”. I had made a reference to her in an earlier post Supercars for the Proletariat – very un-Chump Car.

So two things – clearly I’m not the only guy that has had a thing for Diana Rigg (well, that was a safe bet and I grew out of it), and (as an experiment) I could do something to push my “Emma Peel” numbers up.

So, in the early 80’s there was a Seattle band called The Allies, and they had a song called Emma Peel. I used to see them quite a lot. I also think that the guy that wrote songs for that band has been popping up to play around Seattle again. Anyway – below is the” Emma Peel” video.

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Chump Car Photos

October 31, 2009 / Dent Devil / One comment

RACE DAY!!!

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Chump Car!!!

I guess I was wrong about that…

First, lots of people are going to have fun. The opportunity to race a car never comes to many people and there will be lots of first time drivers on the track today – that’s just cool.

But, this is going to be interesting for other reasons, too… I’ve read through the forums to get a feel for what teams expectations should have been regarding pre-race penalties (a la LeMons). It is pretty clear that cars exceeding the $500 prep limit will receive lap penalties. From an official on the forums – “The acid test is “Do you have a $500 car or not?””

My recollection is that LeMons “cheaters” have been docked one lap for every $10 over the $500 limit . $600 car = minus 10 laps…

The plot thickens – I watched a car role through the inspection process and observed the Chump Car official nodding approvingly at the documentation accompanying a car that massively exceeded the $500 limit (just in body parts). As this is the first Chump Car event, we have no idea what penalties are in store, or how they will be meted out.

So, as of now, I’m not sure how much like a 24 Hours of LeMons race this Chump Car thing is going to turn out to be, but I did get some photos of a few cars that meet what I’ve always thought was the spirit of this type event.