[Skytrooper]

I raced Chumpcar for a bunch of years after tiring of SCCA. The seat time was awesome. My team hauled an enclosed 28 fot trailer behind our diesel short bus. Tools and lots of spares, engine included, was the name of 5he game for a race weekend. Good times.
In the cool rainy NY weather at Watkins Glen , we had to rebuild the xmsn after Friday night practice. Worked under the ez up until xmsn removed then carried into the nearby lavatory building to do the rebuild where it was warm and the lighting was better.
At Nelson Ledges our car got hurt badly on the 3rd lap. We found a junkyard that was open on a Saturday grabbed two complete drvers side steering knuckle assemblies ( one was a spare) and less than 3 hours total were back cranking out lost laps. Another time, same track, we did an engine change and were back turning laps in under 3 hours.
Of course we did have one "fu**- it time. The whole team was sick and the engine decided it was time to give up. It was a cold, rainy weekend. Nobody had the gumption to do an engine change. So, since due to the weather, the trailer had become a bunkhouse...everybody crashed for the rest of the weekend. We were all much better for the drive home Sunday afternoon and all team members were able to go to work on Monday.

Ahhh....those were the days !