There Be Race Cars, Part Eight: Kitty
There be race cars, part eight: Kitty, a diesel-powered BMW.
Category: Vehicles
There Be Race Cars, Part Seven: The Rustang
There be race cars, part seven: the Rustang, the kids’ LeMons car.
New Trailer
A big enclosed trailer for the race team, fitted out by Agent Smith.
Final Bus Footage
Footage of the Bus’s final journey.
There Be Race Cars, Part Six: The Radical
There be race cars, part six: the Radical, waiting for its turn to go zoom-zoom.
There Be Race Cars, Part Five: Pegamoose (BDR6)
There be race cars, part five: Pegamoose, the Bus’s replacement.
There be Race Cars, Part Four: The Bus (BDR4)
There be race cars, part four: the Bus, from its debut to its end at Sonoma.
There be Race Cars, Part Three: The Whale (BDR1)
There be race cars, part three: the Whale, the first Bernal Dads Racing car.
There be Race Cars, Part One: The 914
There be race cars, part one: the 914, and how it found a new home down the hill.
Sunday Panorama
This week’s Sunday panorama from around Purgatory.
Midge Was Stolen
Midge, our Earthroamer, was stolen from our mechanic’s yard in Livermore.
Sunday Panorama
A Sunday panorama inside the trailer.
Everyone needs a green Ferrari
A short video of Dino, our little green Ferrari tractor. And yep, he’s a diesel.
Meet Chompy Jack and Dumpy McDumpface
Meet Chompy Jack, our new trencher, and Dumpy McDumpface, a Yanmar C-20R from Craigslist.
Barbie’s Driver Seat Renovation
New parts for Barbie’s driver’s seat, so long drives no longer mean a sore back.
Bambi’s Arrival
After four excavators on the wall project, we bought our own: a John Deere 35D named Bambi.
Why excavator?
Why excavator? Because dig.
Tractor Practice
Agent Smith takes Tony out to practice crushing things.
The Bus Made the News
Some uplifting news: The Bus made the SF Examiner.
Call me Ishmael
The Whale sails out the driveway to a new LeMons team.
Learning to work with Tony
Agent Smith gets the hang of Tony, our new tractor for the steep hillsides.
Tony Arrived This Week
Tony, our new 1990 Hesston 80-75 tractor, arrives, and day one includes a trip to the vet for Happy. He’s fine.
Race Car Driving
What it’s like driving one of the race cars at the 24 Hours of LeMons.
More buttons!
A busted garage door leads to new openers we can control from our phones.
The fun things to drive at Purgatory
Our less sensible but oh-so-fun daily drivers, from my scooter to the Aprilia Futura.
The Other “Vehicles” @ Purgatory
Barbie the F150, the mini-truck and the other utility vehicles that get taken care of here.
The Auto Works
The race cars that get worked on in the garage, and why the garage mattered more than the house.
Weeds: We have them.
After the rains, the weeds explode, and Dino proves its worth knocking them down.
Garage Work
Agent Smith tackles Stage One of organizing the garage, with 20 sections of Craigslist shelving.
Tractors of Purgatory
The big tractors that shaped this hill, and the arrival of Dino, a 1983 Ferrari 95 articulating diesel tractor.
A peek inside
A peek inside our garage, and the discovery that its frame was originally a quarter of a school building.
A man’s got to know his trucks’ limitations.
The mini truck digs itself in on the hill while hauling trash, and getting it back out takes a come-along, a bigger truck and a race against the fading light.