The Neon a trailer queen? I thought this day would come. Actually – it’s nice to keep the street tires at the shop along with the muffler. Just load it up, ready to rally! We’d like to thank Pete Morris for letting us borrow his trailer for the trip. He had some Treeline trophies to deliver to people running Prescott and I said ‘no problem’ before he even finished asking.

The Neon is not a tiny car… It’s small, but I think its size is sometimes underestimated. On Sunday I drove up the ramps and had Christine tell me to stop. “Okay – that’s good!” she shouts. “Am I on the blocks?” I ask. “ahh… umm… No. Not even close.” “Can I pull forward more?” “No – you’re two inches from the front bumper.” I ‘dukes-of-hazard’ out the side window and step off the trailer. “Oh my.” I am about three inches away from not getting the Neon on the trailer. We pulled the front plate off just in case the bumper were to touch down.

The ride home from L.A. was a good 1st test of the Blazer / Neon combo. We had all the tools and spares from the shop and we’ll only be adding about 150 more pounds of tires and clothing on Thursday when we leave for Prescott. It ran smoothly. The Blazer has gobs of torque and had no issues getting up to a 65MPH cruise. We’ll be caravan-ing with some other rally friends from SoCal. It will be good to stick together, in case anyone has issues.

An interesting ‘last minute’ thing cropped up… Both of our ‘Gorman’ Silverstone tires went flat. One I found was flat at the shop, so I took it over to the tire place and left the other one on the car. I checked the remaining tire and it had also gone flat. I had to pull this one off the car while on the trailer (not as hard as you would imagine) and I’ll be dropping it off tomorrow morning for a re-mount. Apparently the bead was leaking? They slobbed gobs of ‘rim seal’ on this time. I hope they are all right. I have had no issues like this with the Kumhos after countless rallycross events. (and I ran them in the rear for Gorman) The only issue with the Kumhos has been not being able to get any in the country…

This is the reason you have the car sitting on the trailer, ready to go, the weekend before the event. None of this under your car the night before stuff… Right Jeff?