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February 25, 2006
Ice Racing - Georgetown, Colorado
When I drove by the lake at Georgetown today, I saw they were racing jeeps on the ice, so I stopped to watch. The races are run by a group called Our Gang 4 Wheelers. There was a group out there filming them today from SuperLift. They said it would air on the Outdoor Channel in May/June.
Kory Pegorsch is the guy driving the 1948 CJ-2A with the American flag. Had to do a double take when I saw a couple of CJ-2A's without a gas cap on the driver's side. No axe/shovel slot. No gas cap. I'm like....ah...ah...hmmm. Turns out many of these rigs were converted over to run on propane and they just closed up where the gas cap used to be.
These are all original images I shot on Saturday/Sunday February 25th-26th, 2006 in Georgetown, Colorado. The images were taken with a Canon EOS 20D Digital SLR w/ 17-85mm Canon lens and a circular polarizing filter.
This slideshow is a 26 Meg self-playing executable named ice_racing.exe created using Imagematics StillMotion PE. The soundtrack is The Hand That Feeds by the Nine Inch Nails, a CD Single-Import, released in April of 2005. Click here to download the presentation. If you have an Apple, click here to download the Macromedia Flash version. Click here if you need help.
Update: I just narrowly missed this accident in Georgetown today. Some genius in an 18 wheeler came barreling down the continental divide, lost his brakes, and decided to use the Georgetown exit as a runaway truck lane. T-boned a Suburban and pushed it through a stand of trees. They life-flighted the driver of the Suburban to a Denver hospital, where he's fighting for his life. Took them 3 hours to cut out the idiot driver of the 18 wheeler. When they got him out, they took him behind the Diamond Shamrock and shot him once behind his left ear.
Lyrics posted in the extended entry.
Technorati tags: Ice Racing, Our Gang, Our Gang Ice Racing
Lyrics for Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds
You're keeping in step
In the line
Got your chin held high and you feel just fine
Because you do
What you're told
But inside your heart it is black and it's hollow and it's cold
Just how deep do you believe?
Will you bite the hand that feeds?
Will you chew until it bleeds?
Can you get up off your knees?
Are you brave enough to see?
Do you want to change it?
What if this whole crusade's
A charade
And behind it all there's a price to be paid
For the blood
On which we dine
Justified in the name of the holy and the divine
Just how deep do you believe?
Will you bite the hand that feeds?
Will you chew until it bleeds?
Can you get up off your knees?
Are you brave enough to see?
Do you want to change it?
So naive
I keep holding on to what I want to believe
I can see
But I keep holding on and on and on and on
Will you bite the hand that feeds you?
Will you stay down on your knees? [8X]
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Posted by Peenie Wallie on February 25, 2006 at 02:13 PM
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I CAME ERELOOKIG FOR INFFFO ON VOLVO PV JEEP AND ONLY SAW A BUNCH OF SELF SERVING COMMENTS AND OPINIONS ABOUT NOTHING IN WHICH I WAS INTERESTED M- HOW / WHY IN THE HEL DO YOU DO THAT? YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE TOO MUCH TIME - I DON NOT USUALLY SPEND TIME RESPONDING TO TO JIBBERISH LIKE THIS BUT, ISNCE IT HAS WATED THIS MUCH OF MY TIM - WHY NOT.
GET A LIFE !!
Posted by: TOM on March 08, 2006 at 09:29 PM
Tom,
The Volvo Jeep page is here.
Sorry you're too stupid to scroll down or use the search box in the upper right hand corner. As John Wayne said: "Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid."
P.S. – It’s considered rude to use all capital letters when posting. Equivalent to shouting, if you will. Welcome to the internet. Enjoy your stay.
Posted by: Peenie Wallie on March 08, 2006 at 10:54 PM
Enjoyed your article on "Our Gang Four-Wheelers" and the ice racing at Georgetown, CO. I've been there many times and have actually driven, as I do not believe you could call what I did as "racing", the experience has always been GREAT !!! I've made a couple of video featurettes of my experiences with my good friend, Danny Ling and his family. I have always been treated like gold by these folks, and have carried away memories that will last a lifetime. I highly reccomend the experience to anyone, and wish to express my appreciation to you, Peenie, for your article.
Posted by: Danaon on May 31, 2007 at 08:24 AM