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John Stimson · 11-11-2008, 01:30 PM

Smart, I didn't think to check the shadows. Looking at the shadow from the truck, I think it is late afternoon. Possibly everyone is packing up to go home, and maybe some have already left. I think it's in the summer since the shadow is slightly southward, not northward.

I'm not sure you could see cones if they were there. The truck looks like the Lotus truck. The BMW club has had solar panels on theirs for about a year. Not SCCA, and UFO has a trailer instead of a truck. I'm not sure who else it could be.

Tintin · 11-11-2008, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by John Stimson

I'm not sure you could see cones if they were there.

I think they would be visible if they were there. If you look at the bottom/left of the picture, you can see a line of cones from the entrance.

khamai · 11-11-2008, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by John Stimson

The truck looks like the Lotus truck. The BMW club has had solar panels on theirs for about a year. Not SCCA, and UFO has a trailer instead of a truck. I'm not sure who else it could be.

Any idea what the Porsche club uses?

Where's Jason? We need to see if we had a course that start/ended in that area.

BTW... we now have a smallish solar panel on our truck. It's only to give the battery a trickle charge between events. It seems to have done the trick for our last event.

Cheers,
Kiyoshi

John Stimson · 11-11-2008, 02:55 PM

Right you are, and since the cones across the front of the hangar are not visible, I'm going to take a guess that the black truck is Marina Motorsports picking up their cones after the event.

I could imagine those being Porsches...I forgot all about them. Do the Tiger or Ferrari club have a truck? Does the Audi club still run autocrosses?

khamai · 11-12-2008, 03:29 PM

I know some folks that work at the companies that supply the satellite and aerial images to Google. I sent off an email earlier today asking if they could help me with a higher res image. We'll see if they can help.

Cheers,
Kiyoshi

rnr · 11-12-2008, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by khamai

I know some folks that work at the companies that supply the satellite and aerial images to Google. I sent off an email earlier today asking if they could help me with a higher res image. We'll see if they can help.

We are such a bunch of nerds

khamai · 11-12-2008, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by rnr

We are such a bunch of nerds

Yes, I am!!!!

Cheers,
Kiyoshi

11-11-2008, 01:30 PM	#201 (permalink)
John Stimson Interloper Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sunnyvale, CA Posts: 1,480	Smart, I didn't think to check the shadows. Looking at the shadow from the truck, I think it is late afternoon. Possibly everyone is packing up to go home, and maybe some have already left. I think it's in the summer since the shadow is slightly southward, not northward. I'm not sure you could see cones if they were there. The truck looks like the Lotus truck. The BMW club has had solar panels on theirs for about a year. Not SCCA, and UFO has a trailer instead of a truck. I'm not sure who else it could be. __________________ 2005 S2000 #42as

11-11-2008, 02:55 PM	#204 (permalink)
John Stimson Interloper Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sunnyvale, CA Posts: 1,480	Right you are, and since the cones across the front of the hangar are not visible, I'm going to take a guess that the black truck is Marina Motorsports picking up their cones after the event. I could imagine those being Porsches...I forgot all about them. Do the Tiger or Ferrari club have a truck? Does the Audi club still run autocrosses? __________________ 2005 S2000 #42as

11-12-2008, 03:29 PM	#205 (permalink)
khamai Plain ol' Lotus-nut Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Nor Cal Posts: 3,562	I know some folks that work at the companies that supply the satellite and aerial images to Google. I sent off an email earlier today asking if they could help me with a higher res image. We'll see if they can help. Cheers, Kiyoshi __________________ life is better behind the wheel of a Lotus...

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