7th July, 2009. Banning, Los Angeles

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7th July, 2009. Banning, Los Angeles.

Had to get up early this morning, a 69 mile drive to meet a fellow New Zealander (Grant, the guy with the funny car), he kindly made himself available as a postal address for us while we were over here - to enable Government agencies to send out Rego etc. He is over in Orange County so tried to avoid peak hour traffic (didn't work), the highway system is amazing over here and I was able to cover the 69 miles in about an hour and a quarter, Each side of the highway had up to seven lanes, and mostly I was getting along at 65 mph.
Grant is off up to Denver for the weekend, he is racing his own car and will be doing two qualifiers and four races if all goes well, and the cost for this, $20,000 US. I had a look in his trailer, car, two spare engines, four spare clutches, a complete workshop, generator, compressor and it has two air conditioning units.
Back home and into the packing, got most things packed, just a few bits and pieces for tomorrow morning before we drop the Trailer off for a few warranty fixes, we are off to a hotel for two days before flying out.

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