{"id":1039,"date":"2017-01-06T20:11:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T01:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/wordpress\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2017-02-02T06:40:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T11:40:32","slug":"coupe-build-weekend-1-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/06\/coupe-build-weekend-1-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Coupe Build weekend #1 Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coupe Build Weekend#1 Recap\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hqv272skMIQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Goal accomplished, rolling chassis by the end of 3.5 days!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Friday Dec 30, 2017 the new type65 Gen3 Coupe R kit was picked up from Factory Five Racing! The kit was waiting for me to come get it and drive it straight down to Mark Dougherty&#8217;s house near Hershey, PA where we along with his sons Brendan and Matty will be assembling it. My parents Mihaela and John came down to celebrate this occasion as they did before, back in 2003 when I picked up the Challenge car kit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/gallery\/_data\/i\/galleries\/ffr4706build\/pickup\/PA252450-me.jpg\" alt=\"PA252450.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Throwback pic from 2003 kit pickup!<\/p>\n<p>Back to 2016<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/gallery\/upload\/2016\/12\/30\/20161230142709-21dab708.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0376.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The FFR crew! from left to right: Jon Dean, Nate Johnson, me, Jim Schenck, and Tony Zullo.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/gallery\/_data\/i\/upload\/2016\/12\/30\/20161230142718-7251d794-me.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0295.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The kit waiting to be picked up!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/gallery\/upload\/2016\/12\/30\/20161230142937-ba64e3a6.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0375.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;just a couple&#8217; of boxes full of parts<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/gallery\/_data\/i\/upload\/2016\/12\/30\/20161230142934-d0f7d12e-me.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0313.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>load-in made much easier with access to a fork lift!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/gallery\/_data\/i\/upload\/2016\/12\/30\/20161230142945-d8012ddf-me.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0315.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks Gary Cheney for letting me borrow your &#8216;orange&#8217; interior trailer!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/gallery\/_data\/i\/upload\/2016\/12\/31\/20161231082400-71d2ed49-me.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0380.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>7 hours later I arrived at Mark&#8217;s house and we quickly unloaded the kit<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/gallery\/_data\/i\/upload\/2016\/12\/31\/20161231082354-f2e96357-me.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0378.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brendan<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/gallery\/_data\/i\/upload\/2016\/12\/31\/20161231082357-20dbced7-me.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0379.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matty<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/gallery\/_data\/i\/upload\/2016\/12\/31\/20161231082406-2c5dc44a-me.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0382.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All set to work on it the next couple of days. See video above for a 36min video of the build sped up, and narrated mostly by Mark and his wife Wanda.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/gallery\/_data\/i\/upload\/2017\/01\/03\/20170103230846-0d072ddb-me.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0642.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Tuesday Jan 3, our goal was accomplished, rolling chassis!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coupe build weekend1 1000x speed\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3f9hmtiKAYg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Next work weekend will be Friday Jan 13- Monday Jan 16, 2017. We will do live stream again during the day, as always the live video link is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ffr48\/live\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ffr48\/live<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pictures from kit pickup:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/gallery\/index.php?\/category\/387\">http:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/gallery\/index.php?\/category\/387<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pictures from Weekend #1 Build:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/gallery\/index.php?\/category\/388\">http:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/gallery\/index.php?\/category\/388<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See you all\u00a0the weekend of the 13th.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goal accomplished, rolling chassis by the end of 3.5 days!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ffr48"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johngeorgeracing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}