Another ITR car is born :)

[StephenB]

I have decided that an IT car is "in progress" until it actually starts up and can drive

Tonight at 10:04PM it started for the first time! I am very excited and the end is finally near! I will have to take some pictures and post them tomorrow! It's not painted yet but will be soon. This was our first time building a car from a complete shell. I purchased it and had it caged then brought it home and completly stripped it down to a bare shell. Not a bolt or nut was on the car. Randy, Jim, Tom, Justin, Raymond, and myself have taken over a year and put in a TON of hrs re-assembling it piece by piece cleaning/painting each part and inspecting every item. I was very frugal online making purchases and getting what was needed and doing things 100% right but again being as frugal as possible, this certainly made the progress drag out some but made it affordable for me. I can't beleive it will actually get on track soon!

Here is a link to the video of the first time it started up!
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2011581403509

Facebook page with some fun along the way... feel free to friend us.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/RST...21619754580674


Stephen

[G-Man]

Congratulations! Looks beautiful.

[StephenB]

Thanks!

I forgot to mention the other helper...Ashlyn. She hasn't been helping out the entire time but after she joined the team 8 months ago has started to "pick things up".

Stephen

[rthiele]

Congrats Stephen! Now that it is alive will you give it a name?

[Andy Bettencourt]

Big props. Congrats!!!

[benspeed]

Looking forward to seeing you guys up at WGI - great place to debut the car.

[JeffYoung]

Very nice. VEry good to see.

[robits325is]

Sounds good - Can't wait to see it run.

[dj10]

The more the merrier.

[raffaelli]

Nice work!

The trade off between frugal and time works for me also.

[JoshS]

Thrilled to see more ITR cars, good job getting to this milestone!

[ulfelder]

Love it! Add a Mazda to the ITR roster in the northeast, which already includes competitive BMWs, Porsches and Hondas. So glad we built a car for this class.

[lateapex911]

SOMEthing needs to bust up the BMW domination.....

[Tristan Smith]

Welcome to the "R" fraternity.

[gran racing]

DROOL!

Can't wait to see it running at the Glen. Congrats bud.

[StephenB]

Thanks everyone! Today was yet another productive day and the car is all sanded and ready for paint on Saturday... pictures are from early in the day before stickers and sanding happened.

Trying really hard to get this to tech at NHMS in 2 weeks Still have the roof and windows then some other random stuff... (Like I forgot about the fire system.) hopefully those little things go quick and easy!

Stephen!

[StephenB]

PS: suspension isn't even close to being set so no making fun of how its sitting!

[Z3_GoCar]

Thanks everyone! Today was yet another productive day and the car is all sanded and ready for paint on Saturday... pictures are from early in the day before stickers and sanding happened.

Trying really hard to get this to tech at NHMS in 2 weeks Still have the roof and windows then some other random stuff... (Like I forgot about the fire system.) hopefully those little things go quick and easy!

Stephen!

Nice, another two color ITR car

It's been done before

[Tim Dugan]

the car looks great!!! Cant wait to see all your hard work hit the track. Im jelouse your car is done befor mine i need to post some pics of the front of the corrado so the rest of the ITS field can see the front because all there gonna see is the tail!!! LOL i wish cant wait to get back out there and play with you guys

[zchris]

I just finished a cage in a ITR BMW e36 owned by Aaron Sawitsky out of Boston. I believe he'll be out this year with it. I guess this is becoming a popular class. Be nice to him. He's a real nice guy. Congrats Stephan on getting a new car out.
Chris