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Originally Posted by DAD Bob I do appreciate and value your input. You only got me by 10 years, and I hope I can say that I am as active in the next decade. I've Never met you but can tell by your posts you are a pretty savvy racer. The old school racer may be from a time gone by, I appreciate your ability to make what you need. It is ashame you aren't old enough to have known my old friend Al Davis, he too was a machinest and pattern maker back in the Crosley days. He is the guy that made the first TQ rear ends castings. He was a true craftsman and built some beautiful race cars. This guy would take a lathe and an old round ram Bridgport and whittle crankshafts for them little old Crosleys. Things may be a lot safer and better for the racers today but in the process we have managed to outlaw a lot of creative people and ideas. Racing means to experiment, AJ and I get into it about that all the time. He likes to stick with what he knows works and it is real hard to get him out on a limb and try something a little different. It is very hard to improve if you don't take a few chances. Racing has become so specialized and commercial with factory made everything. Now we have people worrying about rules in a cookie cutter environment. If it is not legal it was bought from somebody else and not made by the racer. To you younger guys out there the best thing I can say about getting old is you can say about anything you want to and people just say well there he goes again. I sure hope that just a little of this bull sinks in. Honest Dad himself

DAD, here's a piece of th past for ya! Bob