So here’s the deal. For the last five years Team Polizei’s web presence - not including social networking pages - has been comprised of this blog (gumball144.com), Team Polizei’s portal and the Polizei 144 clothing store. Not any more.
As of this weekend, this is going to change. Why? Firstly, since our gumball144.com blog is our most popular site, we want to move away from being identified off the cuff as a representative or employee of the Gumball, which we never were, and are not. In the next 24 hours the gumball144.com URL will be re-directed to our new blog, featuring a new and faster server, more content, improved search and commenting, and all archives dating back to our humble beginnings 5+ years ago.
32 Hours 7 Minutes is done. Locked. Well, almost. The music is almost done. But I’ve seen it. All 98 minutes, and, amazingly, Cory Welles somehow managed to include about 90 minutes of fantastic footage I’d never seen before, which is hard to believe…since I’ve watched a three hour rough cut about 200 times in the last year.
It’s hard to believe seven years have passed. I’ve no more wisdom or insight now than that Tuesday, at least none other than that passed on by my father. He, one of his family’s few Holocaust survivors, returned to Europe with the U.S. Army in 1944…and was shot and injured when his unit approached one of the first camps to be liberated. When asked about the war, he’d look at me sternly - and say nothing. Mere days before he died I asked him once again, and his words have guided me since the day I stood - a year and a half later - at the intersection of Liberty & Nassau streets.
At 12:41 PM today, Alex, Liz Moses of the "80-in-40" campaign and Gumball 2007 veteran Andrea Zurek set off from the Standard Hotel on the Fabulous Sunset Strip in 144B. Their destination? The World Class Driving event in French Lick, Indiana, home of Larry Bird and former location of the Pluto Water bottling plant. Celtics, laxatives and the Polizei? Oh my!
Here’s Edmunds’ take on the WCD experience, and here’s Motor Trend’s. Ours, of course, will follow shortly. Only 2030 miles to go as of 14:07 PDT!
Watch the video and decide for yourself. The witnesses got the cars wrong, and the SUV/trailer appears to have lost control before the Gumballers passed. My gut tells me that the 2008 Gumball 3000 cars nearby probably weren’t the cause of the jack-knifed SUV/trailer accident seen in the right lane above.
Team Polizei’s friends over at the Arbuckle Group are now broadcasting LIVE using Seero.com. Team Arbuckle are the support car for Ashley Van Dyke, allegedly. More to follow, as they are now eading east on I-580 toward I-5. Maybe…
And yes, we know the GPS map function is going in and out…
