{"id":221,"date":"2009-03-05T14:04:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T19:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/News\/?p=221"},"modified":"2023-09-03T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T20:54:00","slug":"buggy-books-of-history-countdown-t-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2009\/03\/buggy-books-of-history-countdown-t-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Buggy Books of History Countdown : T-6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks six weeks from Design Comp 2009, and that\u2019s right about when the weather starts to hint at getting nicer and that buggy itch starts to really get to you. So to help everyone in the buggy world get through these long weeks, we\u2019re going to take you on a tour of racedays past.<\/p>\n<p>Each Thursday from now until Design Comp, we\u2019ll post the buggy book from one of the last 5 men&#8217;s course-record-breaking years. On Raceday, the Buggy Alumni Association will be distributing DVDs with high quality PDFs of every buggy book ever printed for a modest fund-raising price yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Without further ado, we bring you<a style=\"font-size: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/files\/buggybooks\/buggybook_1981.pdf\"><br \/>\nBuggy Book 1981<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"giThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/1970s\/1970smisc\/i-T2NFJ6Q\/0\/4bb6aac8\/S\/Black%20Magic%20-%20CIA.jpg\" alt=\"Alumni\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 1981, Carnival weekend was completely rained out, and the races were finally held on the Sunday after Carnival. CIA&#8217;s track athletes powered the sleek, four-wheeled Black Magic to victory, smashing the record by nearly 5 seconds with a time of 2:10.50, and earning the first win by an independent. The Zoo came in second with a 2:14.2, and PiKA A spun out, leaving their B team to third with a 2:18.5.<\/p>\n<p>Comments and conversation about buggy books or 1981 in general <a href=\"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/Forum\/viewtopic.php?f=3&amp;t=54\">in the forum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks six weeks from Design Comp 2009, and that\u2019s right about when the weather starts to hint at getting nicer and that buggy itch starts to really get to you. So to help everyone in the buggy world get through these long weeks, we\u2019re going to take you on a tour of racedays past. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest-buggy-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9397,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/9397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}