Thanks to Charlene Bower of Bower Motorsports we will be trying to keep you updated as to the going on at the King of the Hammer.

King of the Hammers; Journal by Charlene Bower

by Bower Motorsports Media on Sunday, February 6, 2011 at 6:19pm

Saturday February 5, 2011

As the lakebed fills, some also go back home, and some haven’t even finished their rigs to leave home yet. I made my home in the lakebed. Getting in so late last night, I opted to wait until this morning to finish up my jobs of creating a house out of my trailer. Done! House and office is set up!

We went to the Johnson Valley Community Center for breakfast. A $5 breakfast that was amazing! Pancakes, Sausage, Eggs! Yummy! We also got to meet the people that live in Johnson Valley, including Betty Munson who is the editor of the Johnson Valley Journal that covers all the areas news and is very active in the process of keeping the land open for public use and not letting the military take it for operations. In talking with her and the others in the room I learned that Johnson Valley has about 300 full time residents and is approximately a 10 mile by 10 mile area. They don’t have any businesses, so the closest towns are the same ones we are using, Yucca Valley and Lucerne Valley. They love the desert and are great people to sit and chat with.

A lot of the media came in today, including from Bower Motorsports Media my Mom who holds the extremely important roll of chief cook and my Dad who will be helping take videos that we will have up after the event. Crawl Magazine and Heavy Metal Concepts are also parked up by us, Pirate4x4 got their stage arranged in the Griffin Tent and Chad Brock Photography came in as well.

At dinner I made a few very important phone calls, the first was to JT Taylor who was still at Torchmate’s shop running a four man crew trying to get the car finished. “It is so cool looking! It is really going to be an amazing car!” They still hadn’t even fired it…yet. The second call was to Kevin Yoder who was out in his barn and said he was going to make it a short night only working until 1am was the goal. “I will make it for raceday! It is badass, my favorite car so far!” Yoder isn’t planning on being on the lakebed until Wednesday night. We also gave Kevin Sacalas a quick phone call who had broken his manual transmission earlier in the day and had already headed home to start on the repair. His hands were greasy, he was under the rig, and he had his phone on silent, so we got the word later that everything was under control and parts would be to the shop by Tuesday.

Lucas Murphy and his crew from Massachusetts came in for dinner and entertained us with their 3000 miles and 50 hours of antics that they had been thrashing each other with. I was laughing so hard my cheeks hurt! They had made a stop at the Parker425 to run a TrophyLite Truck, but didn’t get more than 13 miles before being done.

As the sun went down, the fun went up and again I headed over to Greg from Raceline Wheels fire where we found Joel from Bilstein and Chris who will be head-tech inspector for the event. In Lucas’s search for Dave and Jeff, we wound up at the camp fire with Mike and Les from Odd Angle who will LCQ #14, Chris Garrison who will LCQ #65, Stephen Watson who will be co-driving for brother Brandon Watson of Offroad Designs, Rick Mooneyham from Trick Toys with his dad and brother. While we were absorbing the heat, although not very cold, Brad and Roger Lovell rolled onto the lake bed to set up.

I would say it was around midnight when Dave left the front gate after helping direct people where to park in the right part of town. A great day. A lot of people moved in, and I am excited to start talking to them all.

The event kicks off at noon tomorrow! Wow! Its almost Hammertime!

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