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The new arrival: 8th October 2010

Well what a couple of weeks that was! Since our last blog update, we have our newest team member, our baby girl Gracie, born on the 21st September weighing 7 lbs 4 ozs. As all parents will know, everything now changes, not a lot of sleep and hard work, but more than worth it.

A huge thanks to each and everyone that sent messages on our facebook page and also E-Mailed, really kind of you all. I would also like to take the opportunity to congratulate Phil and Abby Sweeney on the birth of their little boy James, maybe we can sort some match races in the future.

As you can imagine we have had a brief pause in the progress of the Top Methanol FC. The body now fits the chassis, as anyone who has mounted a Funny Car body will know it’s a pain, simple as that, but fitting one with existing tinwork makes life a little easier but still requires lots of up and down and on and off with the body. But it’s now on the car roughly where we want it, just need to tweak a few things before we start building the rear A-frame.

Once the A-frame is built, the body fitted and we're happy with everything, the car is due to be totally stripped to a bare chassis so we can go over every part of it to make sure nothing is damaged or cracked, then obviously as we build the car back up we can lose the ‘altered’ parts of it and remake or add parts to make it an FIA-legal Funny Car. Wish it was as easy as it sounds!