Daring mid-day heist of the rally car produces a Sinead O'Connor CD, amongst other treasures.
Rally car needs a little TLC
Coasting the rally car down the alley toward Grant's place. You can't really tell from the photo, but Grant is hanging his head out of the driver side window because the windshield is opaque with 2 years of dirt. Also we discovered the brakes BARELY work.
Grant toys with the loose headlight.
Rally car.
This is one mean-lookin' machine! [disclaimer: no]
Sweet Ride
Digging the rally car out
Jason poses with clipboard.
Jason finds a sword in the car.
Jason loves that clipboard!
New plates! We is legal!
One of many bags-o-garbage removed from rally car.
Grant with cake. Kyle H opened it and it did not smell as good as it looked.
Jason gets excited easily. I wish I could see what he's holding there.
YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG
Vikram is doing his pre-automotive-work calisthenics in his awesome outfit.
Digging out the backseat from layers of awesome stuff.
Hey! Vikram found a shoe to match his shirt!
This is all you need, baby. Vikram will take care of you.
Grant loves to hold his hose.
Hey Vik- why you so funny? Oh right, it's the shirt and shorts.
Rally car: She may not have a lot, but what she has is really dirty
Jason looks on as Grant hangs out under the car, a location he got rather used to.
Tools and random-dude-from-Star-Wars-Ep1-with-cup. Grant was going to make a trophy out of him, but found a more suitable purpose for him later...
Cleaning out the trunk!
Best. Car. EVER.
Grant is discovering a worn-out plug wire.
Yes. All of that stuff came out of the car.
BEE!
Team There Will Be Bacon discovers a tupperware container with, um, something inside.
the Rally car's guardian angel, Scorpion-Wonder-Woman!
Ghostly Polaroid.
Kyle H obliterated the opposition at Lisa's Birthday Extravaganza Sweet Sixteen Babe Rally Team Name Challenge™ and is about to receive his grand prize of ice cream!
Courtney filled out a team name bracket and won! Prize: Ice cream trip. (http://baclog.blogspot.com/2008/04/babe-rally-team-name-challenge.html)
Ice cream trip ruled! We got diverted by road work and ended up driving all over town just to get to the Baskin Robbins on Elliot Ave.
Grant, the ice cream prize distributor, felt he deserved a prize too.
Grant installed an illuminated switch to operate the cooling fan.
Speed holes.
The last shot of the unpainted rally car
Supplies you need to paint a car.
Masked off and ready to receive paint!
I see a white car and I want to paint it black
Grant is laying on flat black with uncanny skillz.
Getting there.
Honorary team members Kyle S and BRG are blacking this thing out like champions!
Kyle S and Grant are attending to the door jambs. This is all about attention to detail. WE DEMAND PERFECTION!
Painting a car flat black is AWESOME.
Kyle S and BRG were co-MVPs of day 1 paintathon.
BRG is laying it on thick!
Day 1 paint job is looking sweet!
Start of X-Treme Rally Car Paint-a-thon Day 2
After literally pounding the face-less stereo out of the dashboard, Grant and Vikram get to work installing an $8 tape deck.
Ready for graphics.
Bird crap on a freshly painted car?! Eh.
Work team is assembling for day 2 of paintathon. Kyle S and Vik stand ready for orders.
Jason and Vik are milling around awaiting further instruction.
The team continues to assemble for day 2 painting.
Jason is pouring his bacon-filled soul over the rally car canvas while Vikram looks on.
Vik wields bacon brush.
Grant describes his artistic vision for the bacon racing stripe.
Courtney begins blocking out the text.
Vik is ready to apply bacon. Courtney is blocking out the driver-side text.
That is some fine-looking bacon!
Courtney did a hell of a job with the text. She gets the prestigious MVP of Lettering award.
Tricia and Courtney are kicking ass.
Grant inserts a 3/8" x 6" piece of all-thread rod through the trunk lid.
All-thread rod. What is this for? Stay tuned...
Wait! What is that on the trunk?
OH HELL YEAH! Random dude from Star Wars Episode 1 has something to say about tailgating.
Mike B and Jason are busy processing excess PBR.
Vikram, Kyle S, Courtney and Tricia are ready to get paint all over themselves for the greater good.
Kyle S is kicking ass on the bacon detailing.
Vik and Grant are admiring the progress.
Tricia, Vikram, Jason, Mike B, BRG, and Courtney. One hell of a team.
Mike B is doing a hell of a job making sure my neighbor's car doesn't float off. BRG and Courtney are doing a hell of a job on the passenger-side lettering.
I love this car.
Courtney, Grant, and Vikram step back and admire the amazing glory they are creating with their mortal hands.
This car is looking SO GOOD. Kyle S, BRG, Courtney, Vikram, and Grant are enjoying X-Treme Paintathon DAY 2™ immensely.
Two words: 1.) HELL 2.) YEAH.
Best. Paintjob. EVER.
Courtney donated her glam-tastic chandelier.
There Will Be Bacon Painting Team looks on with satisfaction.
Money shot.
I LOVE this paint job.
Grant, Vikram, Kyle S, BRG, Mike B, Tricia, Courtney, and Jason (behind camera). BEST TEAM EVER.
Rally car dashboard is full of awesome.
On the road at last
BEARS EXIT NOW
Be Bacon, There will
Rally car was not without her blemishes.
Saddest Rest Stop Ever
Montana was purdy
The infamous tarp.
Grant is enjoying some victory beer in NYC
Kyle. Is. Chillin'.
The team reunites in the big apple.
What?!
Cube thingy that Grant swore was not a cube.
Hello New York
Struttin'
The boys in the NYC subway
Delicious lunch was had here with rally supporter Sarah.
Jason plays on rocks in Central Park
Go Vik! Wooooooo!
Shoe Fail. Vik walked all over New York with a dime in his shoe.
Grant is trapped in the parking garage.
Waiting for dude to bring rally car down from the car elevator.
Why didn't we think of that?
The Saturn.
This car is kicked.
What kind of rally is this anyway?
Born From Jets guy wiring up some crazy electronics.
Breast cancer car.
Dramatic chandelier shot #3.
Dramatic chandelier shot #2.
Grant!
It turns out this car was not in this bad of shape when they bought it (which lost some respect), but it's still pretty cool.
I think these guys won best paint job
Team Born From Jets won the rally! They were a super nice bunch of people, and totally deserved it.
Pretty sweet 2-tone paint job
This car is hardcore. The floorboards used to be a metal desk. They have a tarp for a roof. Awesome. This car won the Best Beater award.
I'm not sure what their deal was (um, NOT a $250 car, obviously), but they DID have a loudspeaker.
Another rally car
Day 0 meet-and-greet on Staten Island
This is a quality beater.
Maryland!
Rally Golf
Rally Miyata
We gots a challenge!
Purdy
It didn't take long for us to draw the attention of the local law enforcement at gas stop number 1.
Hahaha...
Just another pit stop for the BABE Rally.
Brake lights stopped working, so Grant and Vik begin the troubleshooting process.
Hmmm...
Um... we got lost...
Supermen is hungy.
Sign photo fail #1.
Sign photo fail #2.
Success!
Off to the left were a good 20 or so young boys who were VERY amused by this scent.
Dramatic Chandelier shot #4.
Car is broken.
Still broken.
SHOW US...
...YOUR BACON
Hotel stop on Day 1.
Superfan #1- Marty.
Superfan #2. Vik is popular amongst the central Virginia set. (I think it's the thong.)
Superfan #3 - Frank. Frank was the most excited person in the world to meet us.
Superfans #4 and #5 - Selina and Katie.
CAR IS BROKE
Working on car in superman outfits in Tennessee is awesome.
Superfan #6 - Michelle
What did you do, Vik; What did you do?
Superfans #7 and #8 - even the fuzz appreciate the bacon.
Superfans #9 and #10 - Vern and Mike. "Is this a hoax or some shit?"
Superfan #11 - Randy. MVP Steven (in the hat).
Superfan #12
Superfans #13 and #14
Superfans #15 and #16 (with terrified daughter not pictured. She is not a Superfan.)
Superfan #17 - Robbie
MVP of ALL TIME - Steven.
Superfans #17, #18, and #19. Superfamily. (Mom not pictured)
Superfans #20 and #21
Superfan #22 - Jeremiah
Superfans #22 (Jeremiah), #23 (Holly), and #24 (Superfan-in-the-oven, Carter)
Elizabethton.
We did all we could.
Making the call to the salvage yard. Look how sad Vik is!
Final photo of team There Will Be Bacon with their deceased chariot.
Oh, nevermind. THIS is the last group photo.
Car heaven starts with this ramp.
Bye, sweet chariot.
Going...
..going...
...gone.
Too much rock for 1 hand. BRAT ATTACK!!1!
Jason is so hard.
Rich is zip-tying the isolator after the muffler tried to escape.
Exhaust system hacking in Tennessee
The Diesel Divas' muffler also gets a turn in the Brat
Vik and "Scorpio" (Hank)
Munching
This shirt is stained with the last blood of rally car.
We are so cool. BRAT ATTACK!!1!
I wonder what this store sells? I wish it was more specific.
Tennessee is so beautiful
BRAT ATTACK!!1!
This picture is so awesome. I just don't know how to describe what is going on here, but it's precious.
The gang enjoys some foodstuffs and boozestuffs in Alabama.
Ready for Day 4
Rally car gathering.
About to leave.
There is a rally car shaped hole in the parking lot.
You will be missed sweet ride.
More rally car shots.
The final gathering of all of the rally cars is in the parking lot of Lowes in Fort Payne Alabama.
INVISIBLE CAR!!1!
Hey, at least the team made it...
Hank and Kyle are discussing stuff. Probably really important stuff.
DE-TROIT
Kyle does not have optimal hairstyle for BRAT ATTACK!!1!
Gas station shot 1.
Gas station shot 2.
Gas station shot 3.
Jason found this funny for some reason.
Gas station shot 4.
Gas station shot 5.
Vikram wanted a shot with the cow.
The cow did not like Vikram very much though.
Gas station shot 6.
Gas station shot 7.
Chillin' at the Sonic.
EAT IT
It was hot this day. I think we were in Mississippi.
Katie and Hank enjoy some Sonic.
Settling in for the last stage of the journey to New Orleans. BRAT ATTACK!!1!
Vik has a restaurant in Mississippi? Who knew?! (Vik obviously didn't)
Katie, why your superman mask SO CREEPY?
That is some BABE Rally ingenuity right there.
When a car breaks down, EVERYONE stops to help.
Vik had about a 95% success rate on getting people to wave at him in the back of the Brat on the interstate. He says the trick is to choose the right method of signaling. Here, he employs the standard wave.
New Orleans is over there.
N'Orleans
New Orleans.
Easy there big boy.
Yes, that is a huge beer.
Grant's beer is 3-straw-huge.
We got Hank a half-gallon bottle of Miller Lite for his beer bottle collection. We also had three others, you know, for solidarity.
Rich with a half-gal and a bunch of straws.
Purchasing a big pile of half-gals (because after the hundred or so shots, we needed more)
Kyle, Bucket Guy, and Canadian Brian. We can't actually remember what bucket guy did with his bucket, but we loved him.
Scored this off a pile of trash. Awesome!
Hi Rich!
Lobby waiting.
Recovering.
IT WILL FIT.
Recovering at the hotel.
Going home.
Waiting for our cab to the airport.
Us and the Divas for one last shot.
Whoops.
Grant love em some nacho cheese
Cheese on hand. No problem.
Airport Nachos were so right
Grant enjoys cheese
Why you do that?
That's why.
