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The First Day: Road and Sand.

	This year is the first time since Rex was built that it has not raced at daVinci Days I was stopped when my team member informed me merely two weeks before the race that she was dropping out. Very rude. And given the complexity of Rex and the tightness of my schedule, I wasn't going to try to recruit and train a new team in that time. I was able to drive Gorillas In The Rex in the parade. But the race was out. The one blessing in all this is that it left me more free to take pictures and neighbor with the other races.
	Class Action is a KSR created by the Kinetic Construction Class. Well, they did *part* of the work of construction during the weekend of the class. The two students on the right then spent a few more weeks finishing it. More detailed pictures here.
Devil Fish is a nicely decorated entry from California.
	Spelling Bee from Area 51 Patrol is a new entry inspired from Ken Beidleman's excellent Golf Cart.
We got several very large, new entries resembling Muckle Flugga. The Hulk is one of them.
	No KSR race would be complete without the Yellow Submarine. Every year they grandstand. Every year they say it is their last year racing. Every year they cheat outrageously. They are an institution [or should be in one].
It was a warm day. The women racing June's elephant take a break after the first day.	Yellow Duck is another institution. It is raced every year by Jan, wearing his lime green wig. He cheats even more than Yellow Submarine.
	June Moxon's Flying Pink Elephant is much the worse for wear. A nice feature of that is that it exposes the mechanisms in the trunk for all to see.
Here is Ken Beidleman's Golf Cart. Well, a reincarnation of the golf cart anyway.	And here is the Golf Cart again!
But those are just the chase vehicles. Ken had three entries this year. And the main entry is the Runaway Rhino.

That evening I made a brass casting of a gorilla head. This was intended as a gift to Monkey for what he did for me in Arcata the year before. The casting took too long to be ready for the award ceremony, so I presented a casting I had done weeks before. Here are pictures of the casting.

The Second Day: Mud and River

	The Judges of the mud put on a show of measuring the depth of the mud. Watch closely how far that depth gauge went into the mud! But don't be fooled. The mud was actually fairly shallow and easy. The judge on the left is Randy.
Retro Rocket is a capable machine created by Paul Vibrans of the Seattle area.
We've had several High School and Elementary School entries, but this is the first College entry in Corvallis.	The Hulk
	Patent Pending had fun with a small catapult on his craft. He used it to launch several object into the mud and occasionally into the crowd. However, the raw eggs were *not* welcome.
	I think the mud is Maltese Fulcrum's finest hour. They always make it look trivial.
Mona Fly fluttered thru the mud. Mona Fly is a wonderfully creative, single pilot behemouth by Bob Durst. Bob is a local.
	The mudraking 'Number 2' seemed rather at home in the mud.
The cheer for S-Car is, of course, 'S-Car Go!' And the S-Car *did* go thru the mud.
	Prince of Tide is a California entry.
	Dwayne Flatmo is one of three old timers from the Arcata area who are extremely hard to compete against. The others are Ken Beidleman and June Moxon. All three are professional artists. All three are capable and driven racers. Here we see Tide Fools. It shows Dwayne's characteristic artistic flair.
	Mixing Wet Paint and mud seems like asking for trouble... Wet Paint finally raced this year. Here it is in the mud. I don't have pictures, but when they entered the river their pontoon supports broke. Pete Megis welded them back, but they just were not strong enough and immediately broke again.
Star Wars Fanatics is in three sections.
	Runaway Rhino shows off by running the mud backwards and nearly overrunning the engineering judges.
Jackass is lured across the mud by a large carrot. Jackass was the Grand Prize winner at the 2002 Arcata-Ferndale KSR.
Looney Tunes didn't have the torque to negotiate the mud. The left front wheel wasn't turning. Not sure why not.
	Katy is rocking Frog Leggs in Fish Nets to lift the bike up onto the pontoons. It was pointed out that this conversion may have been inspired by Rex. If so, this is an improvement since the bike is much lighter weight than Rex.
Bayou Search and Rescue's steering broke in the mud. The steering wheel came off and the cable broke. I led one of their pit to a hardware store where we got replacement cable. As a result, I have very few pictures of KSRs in the water.	With a new steering cable, about an hour later, Bayou Search and Rescue is back in the swim!
The Gator team is from Cresent Valley High School.	Surf Mobile is a new local entry. It looked much less complete at the daVinci Birthday celebration! The Surf Mobile had a little trouble negotiating the water exit.
	That evening at the racer's party we were suprised to see a badly damaged Rhino. The pilots said they got distracted by a lovely lady during the drive to the party and ran into a tree! That's Margeaux examining the damage.

I also have some pictures of mechanically interesting designs.

Copyright (C) C Allen Brown 2002.