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I am so ready for Iowa, it is going to be a blast. I LOVE racing with you Mr. M.

Kansas was so fun, can't wait for Indy. I Love racing with you Mr. M

Love the pics Hon.

HI POPS!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!

I really can't wait for the Indy 500 now Hon. I really Love your idea!! Winks
I still hope that Tony and Dan and Vito RULE the races next year.

Hey Pops!!! Haven't heard from you in a while... I MISS YOU!!! You should give a dafter a call sometime! BTW... Don't know if you're aware, but NEIL YOUNG is going to be at the Qwest Center on November 5th (its a Wednesday)... Craiger and I are plannin' on going-- what do ya think? Are ya game???? Love you lots, and hope to talk to you soon! XOXOXOXO

Sorry I've been slow getting back to you... About the truck...it's a '65 GMC. My dad has had a '66 Chevy Carryall (what came before the Suburban) since before I was born, so it figured that I'd end up getting one of them eventually. It started as a work truck and then I parked it in the fall of '96 to rebuild it over the winter. It next saw the road in the fall of 2001...but has a rollcage, 358 Chevy engine (350 bored .040 over...my dad's the engine man and has all the specs), disc brakes all around, 22 gallon fuel cell, etc... I never raced it but more or less built it for "practice"... =)

With the war wagon... I HAD been toying with the idea of building one that would have a barbecue grill, fold-out picnic table and everything you need for a cookout...including an on-board cooler and captain's chairs to mount on top...if you could sneak it in the track...
I do weld aluminum (not as much as steel of course) and could easily make a lighter version of that one. Part of why that original one is so heavy is because of all the equipment on it. Of course that one wasn't built all in one shot. I started on it in '94 and then it sat for about a year, was moved from one building to another and another, then added more to it the next few years before '99 when I pretty much cut it up and made it into what you see in the photo. If you do it all at one time you can definitely wind up with something lighter...
Just WHY would you need a cooler that big by the way? =D

Hey Hon, so we are off to knoxville, I am really excited. Stacy said to bring him a tear away back. LOL Love racing with you!!!

Yeah that NASCAR snail video was on myspace and I couldn't let it go to waste so I put it on here, too... As for the picture that's a pit cart or war wagon... It's part of my business and has pretty much everything to do almost any welding job -- TIG/stick welder, MIG welder, oxyacetylene welder, power tools, hand tools...it even has a little TV set on it (I haven't figured out how to get a stereo in it yet but give me time). It weighs about a ton or more so it would have to take a real good paying job to get me to haul it to a job site. And I never have dragged it into the pits at the local track. It would be great advertising, but racers on this end of the country can be dirt cheap when it comes to things like repairs...trust me...