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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 ..

DONT u just hate it ..u spent your teen years that seemed to last forever trying to hit 18 least in my time so you can go party buy beer vote and get that dreaded draft card . then life real life hits u in the bud .you get married going on nearly forty years with the wife .. your son is 31 and getting married your bones hurt you find yourself forgetting where the keys to your truck are when they are right in your left hand . somone is screaming get out of the way grandpa you are to slow while showing u the all american you are number one hand signal no left or right turn on that one no mistake on the meaning . u worry about what tomorrow will bring you, find ten minute jobs turns into an hour or more . you look at the youths of today thinking wow they are crazy wild misfits this countries future is headed towards hell ..yet never realizing the old said the same thing when u were young .. it seems garbage day is every two days when its 7 ..... u looked forward with excitment for dec 25 th now wondering what am i going to buy my family my wife so the easy way out is a gift card .. adds all over the place and pop ups on your phone every second of the day drive u nuts . when sears roebuck catalog was then the most exciting thing to come around at christmas and christmas holiday started in december not september .. mowing yards back then for 2 bucks pulling that tiny little no horse power motored contraption behind your bike with tiny little wheels that never seemed to follow your forward motion we needed nicks chassis class back then and in time swinging a yo yo to cut high grass down .. because the tiny little movwer had no horse power all that hard work to finally save $300 bucks to buy your first car after two years worth of mowing ..an old 62ford falcon with springs poking your behind through the cotton seats one burned out cylinder the first five cylinder u ever owned .wipers didint work headliner flapping in the no air conditioned two 70mph windows down ac , all the good old days that old car made me proud .now the young kids today have to own a spic an span shining new truck to keep up with the joneses ..hell the best car i owned was that old falcon i paid for it with blood sweat an tears . an had tears when it got wrecked . meaning i now had to walk again .......................but the best thing now is i and u are still alive to tell about it . 2023 NEVER GAVE IT A THOUGHT I WOULD SEE THAT ...IF i make it that far .but again its only going to feel like two days away . garbage day again

the yenko on the fender was airbrushed .this man can do wonders . freehand looking at a pic ..

JUST GOT HOME ..we have our work cut out for friday . got some of the interior back in . still have the front end to put back on .. all of it .. still waiting on the trans should have sometime friday another one of those murphy laws deals .. that never ends it seems one of the new trans parts was broken for this t56 .if we cant get the new one early friday morn we will use the old trans ,, someone i do not know as of now has a trans we can put in it sorta trade deal .. yahoo .. . then we have to install it .. u watch all those builders shows foose and all .and as always they have a thousand things left to do in 15 hours or less .. well that is not fake lol .. seems the more we put back on the car the more we have left to do .. .the faster we try to work the slower we go .. .shoot spent 80 bucks just refilling the propane tanks to keep the shop warm enough to paint ... never seen propane tanks freez up .. then again never emptied one so fast .. but with all of this we still have our spirits up .sam his dad and brother have worked long long hours along with this rookie no days off .day 17 i think i lost count ..see you at the dealership saturday ..i hope alan can hold the rain off for us .......

ILL WISH YOU THE LUCK ..