24 hour Chicken Race Tomorrow!

Ok, so actually its a car race. But not your average car race. It is the 24 Hours of LeMons: The Lamest Day 2009 car race wherein all of the cars  must be acquired and prepared for a maximum of $500.  Winner gets $1500- in nickels, and there is a chance your car can be summarily destroyed by public vote at any time.  If you are going to be in Garrettsville, OH Saturday or Sunday (Oct 3 and 4th), you should definitely go check this race out! Go here for Tickets and race information!

Our friends over at 2slowracing have designed and built a giant racing chicken which will hurtle around the track at ridiculous speeds for 24 hours until it wins the day for overly large poultry everywhere, or explodes in a fiery wreck of fried chicken bits.  The design was submitted by forum member Ajaykarat and it is awesome:

chickenshack

The guys did an amazing job translating this ambitious concept to their hearty 1987 BMW E30, and are almost done putting the final touches on it (yes, those are racing goggles on the chicken!):

2slowChickencar

There are a bunch more pictures of the design and construction here. So once again, go root for the feathery beast if you are in the area, or even if you aren’t. Good luck tomorrow guys, please do not die!

<3

kelly

Bronze Age

After all the plaster is removed, the sprues are cut off and a hole is drilled in his helmet to receive the neck pin. Then the knight is polished and the hand drilled so he can hold a sword.

BANDSAW!!!!

Although this casting looks pretty good, you can see some places where the bronze has some pretty big divots.

engarde!

These small defects would be nothing compared to the next castings…

*Update* — well, except the request by voidshatter for more shiny + lens flare… 🙂

shiny shiny

-John