Real nice thought even if they never race a car in their life..Kinda
what is all about in the big picture..I remember working on Nascar
Modifieds as a very young boy and will never forget the 'chances' to get
a ride while they pulled it up on the trailer.. My neighbor had one that
Carl 'Buggsy' Stevens drove before he was famous. An injected SBC, at 12
I could do the air density stuff and come up with the right pill size
while my buddies were struggling with their 'hill buggies' LOL.. Those
sounds and smells are what got me in the racing business for life. All
started at the tender age of 8. Later in high school as a senior we had
a substitute auto shop teacher that claimed to drive a TF car. He had
pics and brought in the fire suit and we talked a lot about racing and
safety but all thought he was BS'ing us all. He finally brought it in
and fired it and did a short couple of burnouts in the parking lot. I
got the honor of priming the blower with alky to fire it while two
buddies wrestled with the starter.. A real hoot if there ever was one. I
thought we were going to break every window in the building.. Oh well
sorry to ramble but this thread reminded me of some nice days gone by
now..
Dave Dahlgren
DOUG ODOM wrote:
>
> Dick, Your message about your crew member in school made me think. I
> take our car down to the local high school auto shop once a year. The
> shop teacher makes arrangements with the other shops and even the math
> teachers to have a small assembly. The kids ask a lot of questions and
> are interested. We try and explain how much math and calculations it
> takes to run fast or for a record. The fact that an attractive woman on
> the team drives the car with the E motor in it and is in the 200mph club
> brings extra interest from the girls. At lunch time the word has spread
> and a lot of non shop kids come down and take a look also. I think if we
> can get some of the younger people interested more people will enjoy the
> sport.
> The shop teacher will have one or two kids that are the top of his
> class and I'll let them come over to the shop on a weekend and help with
> some little thing on the car. I'm no teacher, but if you show some kid
> how to make a fender brace with the shrinker - stretcher and you put the
> part on the car that he made, you will see their eyes light up.
> Just a thought, Doug
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