Here is everything BEFORE we went to China.
(Click here to see: After we went to China)

Photos of Ramshackle just before it left for China...

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Our team is made up of three people, Captain Ken Beidleman, June Moxon and our long time friend Stock Schlueter.

The vehicle started with a 1987 B2600 Mazda 4x4 pickup. It had a running engine in a box, the bulk of the parts were reclaimed from 2 vehicles both donated by Mikey of North Coast Powerwash. He and his race car friends managed to find all of the pieces and with some help from us, put it all back together again.

After throwing all of our acuminated knowledge at it, we failed electrical.  Mikey said, "call Rich, he can fix it!"  We did, he did, we have an engine, July 30th. Shortly after driving the truck 6 inches forth and back, Stock called it a night.

Unbeknownst to Stock, Captain Ken & June decide to go on a joy ride to test the vehicle in 4 wheel drive, it jerked, popped, snorted and clanked, disaster, call Mikey. For all you gear heads out there, the ring & pinion was too tight, Mikey showed us how to fix it. A half of a day later, Ken, Mikey & Stock drove it hard.

We have a runner.

Special thanks to all our sponsors:

• Mikey Clifford
• North Coast Power Wash
• Dale Warmuth
• Leon's Muffler
• Gary & Rick
• John's Used Cars
• Les Schwab
• Bonnie & Doug at Arcata Salvage, our heavy metal providers and their crew. They let us walk out the gate with anything but the junkyard dog, “ if you can’t use it bring it back”.
• Konaboldt Coffee, Brian & Jeri

More special thanks to:

• Full on Auto
• Reggie at Redwood Marine
• Tim McCrackin for his wonderful expertise
• The man that sparked it back to life, Rick Mayberry, Performance Data Systems LLC
• Glendale Chop Shop, Mikey, Doug, Mad Dog, Danny, Rick.  Thank you so much for your friendship and the use of your shop.

Click here to see the USA competition: Rabid Transit!

...and here for the Kiwi competition: Kiwi Dragon