Well, a little less than two and a half miles into stage two the road surface turned the consistency of wet concrete and the car wouldn't turn. The driver's side bounced off a stump, the car pirouetted into a tree, and holed the radiator. Amazingly, not one piece of glass was broken, and the only mechanical damage was the radiator, though the shell/frame was a bit biffed.

Rather than fix a car that's already been twisted, bent, straightened, and fixed more times than we want to remember, we decided to build a new shell and transfer all the parts.

Photos of the new build can be found HERE