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JUST LIKE ANY CLASS they start here and then end there . my son sold his car and just about to sell the motor to my brother for a loss which is ok on that to put in his 68 camero that is being restored . one of the main reasons was cost if u do not have 15 to 20thousand plus in a factory stock u are slow .. he needed to up grade the motor 2500 plus he needed 800 dallor shocks just to start plus other items . every year the factory stocks cost has gone way up in just three years . u can see some drivers taking and moving thier fatory stocks down to purestock ..dont know the rules on that class but it must be cheaper .. local i think four or five plus fatory stock racers are in that class ...so dirt track racing is no different... .. and the factory stock today are super stocks some have 10,000 i the motors alone if not having to change motors twice in a season and those are in the 5 grand up price .. ....that wont last to many more years and who knows what rule will be for next season .. and the process will start all over .ITS RACING FOLKS AND IT WILL NEVER CHANGE / START OUT CHEAPER . AND WORK YOUR WAY UP FROM THERE ..WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN FITS THE BILL .... TIRES that use to be the biggest cost . run a home built car with a stock motor and no fancy shocks brakes upper control arms or set back cages .. i find those cars make better dirt cars now with every track running dry .. .

AFTER THE 1989 season frank carpenter went to looking for a cheaper tire for our mini stock class . no one was running a cheaper tire in texas that we knew of mostly mccreary tires or eagleslicks .. . both cost . texas pro sedans was running mcceary and so did we at our local class up til 89 .. those tires were not cheap except in todays inflation ... the cost was running drivers off i think they were 60 bucks . i could not afford many new tires that year pocket national bank got me to the races but finishing in the front gave us food for the week and paid my way the next week races ... .. SO FRANK set out to find us something cheaper .. and he found a new tire distributor way up north being our class was run by the drivers he had their blessing in finding a tire ..the new company was TOWEL CITY RETREADS ... WHO ever heard of such a thing as retreads then called recaps ..we thought that was crazy and first thought was no way jose ..but htose guys promised we would not be disapointed and they were gald someone in texas would try them out three sets for free so three cars could test them with a garranty i they did not hold up any money spent would be returned or replacing the tires after words .so who could lose .at first we blisterd the tires not know what ar pressures and such to run .. then we found out those tires were directional and those were the best tires imo . i ran two season on three of them .. we even ran two cars at sas against the mccreary .and beat them in the end the tires got better and better with heat each lap was less stearing input ... but hit any dirt on the track u were in trouble ........ all the tires were shipped to us and we sold them to the teams at cost no profit . and not one of us even measured a tire for our cars till everyone else had the tires they wanted just to be fair ........ i turned and others turned the same lap times on recaps at cc and at tme faster during the race ....the best thing was everyone was on the same tire ..we never tried them on dirt ..i saw those tires on your dcrst cars rod .. those tires had come along ways in grooving and handling over 1990and 91 ..worth the price ..

thanks how much ..... u just never know who will drive up there ..

Looking for someone else .. A front nose for a 75 and up to i think 81 camero ........... 361 2902096 .. I KNOW SOMEONE MAY HAVE AN OLD ONE HIDING IN THE RAFTERS .. . GOING a restore ..

sam designed to yenko stripe . u can see in the pick ..we just didnt want a regular boring stripe . yet had no ideal how it would look or if the owner would like it .. he wanted one so ... spent a couple of hours or so trying different looks and this one looked the best route ..trying to get it to come out just under the handle was trick .. we sent all the measures in to our graphic man ... and let his system do the rest .. where the air brushed yenko on the fenders are the stripe was suppose to come right even with them but it wasnt going to work out after cutting ..so missed alittle on that .. . sam also hand made what is on the hood .... over all it looks good and the vet is very happy ..he has had alot of poeple comment o that car . .. positive all of it .he now has a list of folks who want to ride around in the car .. again it all paid off . i was standing ext to it the other day and someone drove up and said wow we didnt know the person .. till then .. .. its just a camero . but no one else has this one .

HE GOT today to visit the vet who fixed the trans and stopped by the body shop .then came over to my house while i was working on my other project that is somewhat like this car a tahoe we bought for my brother an not work ..he still does not know about this either .. im batting a thousand this year ,thats in hours of work for free on two projects .. .. . and this one needs to be finished before christmas and just like the camero it is fighting me all of a sudden under the hood .but i will fix it this week i hope .. one of those bugs that is hard to find but the symple one that always gives u hell.. ..david showed up just in time .i needed someone to handle the ignition key .like turning to start ..... then before christmas i have to finish my sons bosses hunting truck as well ... ...HOW THE HECK DID I GET INTO THIS MUCH TROUBLE ,,.. AFTER all of that i have ot get back on a friends 65 mustang .. then the house work i need to finish ..amybe ill take off christmas day .i have nt even given that day much thought .

JUST SOME OF THE PROCESS . . from start to finish .i have way to many through out job i dont need pics i have everything between my ears and some i want to forget lol .. ..i figure this is enough making nick work here ... ... ... AGAIN everyone who helped no matter how big or small everyone may think it was, made a vets life get a alot better .. he can now drive with the david he knew before he joined our nations honor ..... dropping the car off friday night was not planned, david knew it would be saturday .. but he called and sam just had finished the hood enough to go out and road test it . still had some tiny parts to put on trim type ... i called sam up as he was leaving to test drive it , i told him to test drive right over to davids house .. if it makes he can have it for that night ....HERE is the kicker something he hasnt done before .. HE WANTED THE CAR TO DRIVE THE TOYS FOR TOTS DRIVE ... I asked david why and has he never done that before ,,,, HE SAID SO MANY FOLKS helped fix my car up .and this is one way i can pay them back .. i said u owe us nothing pay it forward for someone else to follow suit .. he gave a homeless man 20 bucks to get something to eat that night .. ....as i took it ............................. I KNOW many of u will never meet david but many know him just the same many of you have been there .. And many of u know just what something so little means . i my wife and others can never say thanks enough.......... ... on a side note .as sam and i asked david to move his truck to get more light n the car we noticed something and sam turn to say . man he is lite up excited and smilling like no other time .. ........... THAT MY FRIENDS IS JUST THE PAYOFF WE HOPED FOR .. . HE WON WE WON ............ GOD BLESS EVERYONE OF U AND DID SO

yep i never like to fight but push come to shove .. i never eally got into power weight lifting . i did do some weight lifting but nothing like you .. but what i did do was work on the old 70s style drilling rigs .. i was always lead ..i ducked few lose chains when the chain man let go to soon and missed some that hurt ..i used that hammer a bunch on valves and anything else that had to be done .. i spent three years with my fed ex ground contract .about 4 thousand pounds a day min .. strong enough to make some weight lifting prisoners at three rivers federal correctional facilities humble... i did not look very strong to them and they mouth off in good fun .i ask the guard if i can show them a thing or two .they said yes .. i made four of them stand at the back door / i had 28 boxes of wire that every single box was 80 pounds .. one after one bending over i never stood up i chunked those boxes out the door and not one could catch the boxes and not one could lift one cleanly .some took two to get em up... the guards laughed and laughed . and the prisoners never mouth off again ....i said never under estimate anyone .. now i went soft and picking up 20 pounds is heavy .. those were the days

UR one bad man ..lol.........ONE DRIVER came to our shop one night had a couple to much to drink normal . he felt ten foot tall and bullet proof . he mouthed off enough that i told him to go home we do not allow drinking at the shop and u already had to many .... well that made him mad so he picks up a 4 pound sledge and thought i was going to run away or back off he was wrong almost dead wrong i came around the 70 chevelle so fast his eyes looked like apples being drunk and afraid i suppose i shoved my left hand up under his neck lifted him up where he had no control and headed for the 4 foot open fan with a 2 horse belt drive motor turned on we were about two feet away from him loosing his head in the open blades when my brother and another driver grabbed him away from me ..they realized just what i was going to do near the last seconds ... they saved him .he kept his mouth going till my brother told him get out or die dont go back inside ..i was very serious .... i never gave it a second thought about taking his life ..u pull a weapon better get me fast . not going to run and get hit in the back of the head .so i figure may aswell help them out least i will see it coming .. ill fight u hand to hand and i do not like to fight at all most stuff isnt worth it .but pull a weapon i have no rules but one and he found out what that rule was ..

i agree with this also .. .it cost nothing to give tickets to those who have never been .. u can only win in the end .. i can tell u frank gave me some tickets to give away when he was alive and running cc speedway .and rank was a tight wald ... but talked him into 20 tickets ... i know two of them turned into racers . 1 turned into a sponsor for me and robert .. i know three drivers gave up drinking to race . two of them we built their cars .. nether one had ever been to a race ... heck my wife had never been to a race till i took her once in 1984 .. and she helped me buy my first car the next season .. and we have never missed a season sense after 92 i sold both my cars and have helped others sense .. .. parking a racecar out where its seen is one the best advertisment around out near major road ways and such .. alot of poeple have never been to a race and alot do not even know there is a racetrack around .. justabout every racers buying gas has had someone come up to them looking at the cars and asking where is the track .i have and some showed up ... .. another thing alot of folks wont come out when they do not know a racer .....i dont go to a ball game unless i know someone .......

nah we would have to go solar power .. nick i believe youwere part of the go faster group .and u never drove a racar or owned one i suppose .. u just made them working on the on moving part that fit under the motor . i remember the racars sitting around the gas staions ..

RON back when we ran prosedans / just taking two cars upto red river speedway cost near and over 8 to 12hundred min .. our tire bill with 14 inch slicks could cost us 600 plus of that money alone .. even going to sa could and did cost 500 plus again tires alone were a big cost .. and u run for what $300 AVERAGE . JUST OUR little four bangers cost 10 to 12thousand just to keep them running with the jones ..i think in 2008 nearly if not over 20 grand to run that season ...... 1989 we had to re build our class by cutting modifcations out .. again tire cost was one big issue even then ..we had to go recaps and then later on eagle test tires ... .. . when we raced a bomber in kyle sa and cc we raced street tires cheaper and lasted longer we had an advantage there .my brother inlaw owns a tire store and he helped us pick out the best tires to run and that worked . stock motors .. so cost went way down but still not cheap .. .. now we are on dirt at first cheap .now factory stocks are running some are 10 k motors special chassis up graded control arms ball joints and such .and shocks that is the biggest shock .. 800 bucks for four min .some who can afford them go way past that mark .. the main thing here is they went to pull off slicks that cost alot less than what we were running .but that is the only savings which does not offset the rest everything else is up .. ... lucky not like asphalt racing u can take your car just about to any dirt track and not have to change much .maybe a rear gear .and some adjustin of springs . the rules are common .. ashalt racetracks were so afraid of losing cars they did not work together on common rules till its was way late ..... . ONE OF THE BIGGEST ISSUE was sponsorship it was very hard to lock heavy sponsors down ..the most normal excuse for not sponsoring us was sponsors got burned in the early years .cars not showing up and such .. . . just touching a few things that worked agaisnt asphalt racing,,,, i see alittle of it heading into dirt track racing .. mainly the cost a factory stock is not cheap .. soon to repeat past history ..on its way to killing itself .. nothing new here common issue / start a new lower class that starts the process all over ..

WOW 1997 FIRST NASCAR race we went to .. went to the bush race where it rained and rained and stayed in a mall for hours nad hour waiting for the race to restart ..and we loved it cool seeing the race finish at night .. sunday we had to park three miles past the track we paid 20 bucks a car to park on a ranch .. the all 10 of us with ice chest blankets and many other items walk those three miles .. got there just as the cars were rolling off pit road .. after the race we crossed over the freeway . as a truck was baout to pass us up i stuck my thumb up the truck stopped we loaded up the driver took us to our cars .. we sent the next five years taking ten of us to the track .. we always paid for 12 seats .ice chest and itens needed a place to sit too ... have not been back to a nascar race sense 2002 .. rained us out that day and we had ot come back seeing i owned a fed ex gorund route with no one to cover my route .. a $1000 bucks wasted .. did go one years to an irl race ..

yep u heard me right ..number 8 injector is stuck open . i am going to change both all the injectors and fuel pump ..its been sitting almost four years .. and both have never been changed .. i can get the parts cheap enough .. this is for a brother whos other truck is worn out he has no money and can not work .. another brother and i bought this tahoe for him back in march or so he does not know about this .. it had some miner front end damage i already fixed .a electrical short typical of these trucks . a couple of rust holes from spending most of its life near the beach fixed .i repaired and replaced parts on another 99 that someone uses for hunting .. he iwll have some spare parts that were still good off the other truck .. the owner hunts in mexico so we upgraded alot of stuff ..so i have many spare parts and shocks that will fit this tahoe ..lucky me .. .. its almost done to turn it over to my brother .i spent two months on the veterans car that took time away from this project .. i seem to be doing alot of projects that make no money but cost some as of late but worth every minute and it helps those who need it .. after the truck is finished no more projects like this for awhile ..i have hundreds of stuff to finish around the house i started 5 months ago ... once u retire u go to work . ill need to get a job just to get a vacation .. covid created this back log at home ..

I want to thank nick for all he has done ...

SOUNDED LIKE TERRY bobby was young ...use to be a promotor in texas speaking with terry in george west he said promotor wanna be .......

might be A dumb question is that an iron duke motor . like i said i dont know much at all about those cars .

cool car and surprised its still around .... i do not know anything about those cars .. but our history buff tex tom sees this he may know something ..rare when he doesnt .

SORRY I HAVE NOT SENT ANY NEW PICS .. i had the vet at the shop today we are having issue with the shifting ..found the shifter was worn to much .. . i ordered him one tonight .. wont be in till the 27th ..i tried to get it sooner using our prime account but that is the prime time being a holiday week .. ... he got his best look of the car today slid his hands over it just twitching to drive it .. but he knows we had an issue with the shifter worn to much to use something i did not get to see from the start someone else took it out before i got to the shop .. and they didnt notice the issue at that time .. fact till i put it in at 2 am i didnt notice it .. ... .. after market cheese cake junk that came with the car .. ,he could have driven it but taking a chance of missing something up was not what we wanted ... it has been a long time like two years sense he was able to go some where with it besides around the block ... good thing today he met another vet who served around the same time i made sure of that . the vet was the one who fixed the trans ..they hit it off .. . i promiss tomorrow ill get some new picks .of the car .. like i said i was just the servant u all became my helper this could not have been done with out u ...

NO SIR U ARE CORRECT no pat on the back i am just the servent EVERYONE WOULD need a pat on the back is not what we all wanted .. . I mJUST GLAD SO MANY saw what i was trying to do with little information .. all who joined in get the same thanks and joy that we played all a part in . so many need our help and it is impossible to do that .. but like racing we work hard to pass the next car and the next the next week and so on .. this was a no loss finish, first place everytime .. . david our vet is not comfortable right now around big crowds just yet .. .only time will tell and i am sure that someday soon that can all change but still have a big hill to climb i may need a tow rope to get up there .. i told him i can only help him so far and he will be meeting some who shared his life i asked him to meet some brothers i cant be .. and will little by little this will take some time.. but time is in his favor .. i have plenty left i hope ... ... glad you took the ride with us . tell the wife and son thanks ..

Yes sir i will . i have the car at the shop with finale touch ups and fine tuning . ill get some phottos to crazy saturday for any ........... after talking to david last night i really realized even more what this car means to him ........... IT helps him find a tiny bit of his life before the service ... he loves the new look and over taken about it ...so many helped ..

THERE COMES a time when you are speechless . where u cant find the words .. i am having a hard time finding the words ... A STORY that started Well over a year ago a quest an adventure into the unknown ..HOW WHEN AND WHERE ... was the theme i spent many a nights thinking about worrying about afraid of .. sleepless nights for weeks and wondered am i doing the right thing am i doing it the right way even though i have never done something like this . i have always helped anyone where i could even at my own cost thats just me .. . but did i take on something i am not prepared for .. many times i thought man its to much it took alot of time away from my family days nights weeks ........ but a thought always stood in the way to help me on my way .. no way could u not .someone needs your help u have it made .the others suffers and is lost . and needs a helping hand . the future could be brighter if only i can do something nomatter my cost my familay and friends cost .. oe erson i met was in worst shape . something i could not live with with out helping as small as it may seem but can send someones future leaps and bounds in the right dirrection ..that partstill holds a furture not proven yet ... .. I SOON REALIZED it was much bigger than i .. i needed the help of many starting right here at home with my rock my wife and then onto sam and his family then brandon and his shop and many others i cant think of right now .. i ventured into a raffle i never in my life tried before did i do it the right way ... it paid off so i guess it worked .. speedzone members joined in most of all we have never met but many helped in many ways .. silent faces with a strong voice loud and clear ad faces i may never see .but know they have a big heart a caring heart a love of country a love of their fellow americans .. many were veterans i can only say thanks the true and real feelings can not be shown ........... THE SHOWING OF THE CAR that sam along with his dad and brother put so much energy into making that a happen .. i was there to witness an amazing family .i learned so much yes old dogs can learn i never in my life of 66 years sanded a car over and over just to find it needed more sanding and that i am not all that great at it ,,..................................................... when davd the veteran saw his car . his voice said its blue the sound had excitement i never heard from him the walk around was amazing to watch all the folks outside to witness this in the cold and rain .. which brought the numbers way down who could attend .. and glad they didnt with what mother nature had to give .. i think the rain was sent to help wash some of the pain the veteran carried for so long .. ... he was joyfull . just what we all hoped ..i saw clear eyes his true color not those dark eyes i have gotten used to that low voice as if to say i am afraid to speak .. IN THE END LEAVING FOR HOME david and i had a minute face to face .. i saw life i saw color i saw happeness i saw relief .i saw a person who realized he isnt the only one i left him saying . its time to get out go back find that person u loved .u have a wonderfull family inside the building to live for and u all deserve to be happy ,u have many brothers and sisters u will never meet they all pulled for u and helped us along the way .. .......... .. THANK U IS ALL I CAN SAY ..

lol ..my arms cant hold my head up .. tired too .

TIRED WHY I HAVENT SAID ANYTHING TILL NOW i// came down to the last minute and a few more . .. .. the car made it an hour late but showed up looking good ...... ILL TELL EVERYONE ABOUT IT monday night my mind is shot . just relaxing one day without much thought about the car and what it still needs .............

THANKS but no reason to apoliogize . i do not take down numbers 👎of those i know who will not or can not help ............ just not that sort of person , not doing this for brownie points ..