To Be Old And Wise, One Must First Be Young And Stupid

again. I call, I call for jobs or hope. I want to explain what happened slowly, so he says, "Oh, you know, it's about setting bail right," he says he has a senator, this is the Fang, and then, like me, he looks and ether from an inch or below of the Fang and everything will be fine. Tell me well, so at the same time I do this, I learned another lesson. If you're going to build something on a budget and you're going to put all your effort into it, don't build it for any kind of Fed or trend because as I go with this car, suddenly the front engine has the superior fuel, the sauce is like people think.it explodes in popularity and gets the attention of the NHRA and they start changing the rules every time they turn around, they change another rule on this car now, so this thing has to be chassis certified, it has to pay taxes, so I bring it in to be crossed out. over and over again so I can do anything right now on my own.

I had to save up four weeks and borrow a trailer just to get this out of Staten Island. I'm going to fix it. He says no, it won't happen, so he walks away. the frame is built, the separation joint is behind the motor plate instead of in front of the motor plate, this will not work in any way, it's very good, you know what I want to feel, Walter, anyway, so I said, “okay,” so I sold this. car and they take the engine out and I say, you know what I want a 426, so I come back and say I put it in, they take this engine out of the car and I put it to the side and I start building a blow fuel 426.

So that takes us to depend on Kathy in the car having to go in there all the time until the fire breaks out on the field. One time we were trying to warm it up and she didn't want to go in anymore, so we built this thing with that. and I think I have a picture of it, let me see, I have a picture of somewhere, yeah, okay, maybe it will show up, so we built this and what I did was I bought a fun old car that was a Uehara chassis and it had weird mount on the rear so I didn't realize at the time, just when I was building this car the NHRA comes out with spec 10 1b and 10 1b makes everything on this car illegal so I I rebuilt everything in the back, but when you do it, I say, you know what I want this to say very, very well, right, I want you to know, I want this for me tight and nasty, right, and you can see here, I mean, look the profile of this car which is tight and low, that's about it.

As cool as you can get it right the only problem is I neglect the fact that I should and I neglect the fact that I hid in the damn car oh yeah here's a picture of when I

first

finished it yeah I built it in a two car garage in New York City, most of the gas welded, my total investment in that car was about $5,000, so here's a photo of me sitting in the car and you could see the roll cage, my head is inside the roll cage, it just didn't fit the damn thing and as soon as I hit the gas I went blind because the vibration started shaking and vibrating, you know, it's a normal thing, but you know that was it.

I couldn't see and I start, oh, I'm like vertical anyway, so it doesn't take much for me to lose my balance, so it was great, you know, I was dizzy and blind, and trying to drive a fuel car takes a lot. sense and actually, that was another part or a learning curve, you know? you have to know yourself you have to know what you are capable of so I wanted my public speaking license I want to make my fuel we are making a video here we are making a YouTube video you have to be quiet it doesn't matter I didn't fit in the car we took this thing to act on, I line everything up, so I have to waste it.

These drivers will approve my car once strongly, I mean, it's a thousand percent, everything I'm going to do is there. On my

first

run I can't see well, so you're supposed to do three months, you're supposed to do one that's supposed to be 100 to 200 feet, then you're supposed to do the eighth mile and you're supposed to do a four mile run. So in my first shot I can't see anything, so in the second shot, right, I say: you know what I have to do something here, so I started to make room inside the car. I removed the fireproof padded paper from the seat.

He had fireproof underwear. I got rid of it. That way I took all the paint off the roll cage and just kept getting in and out of the car and every time I did something it got a little easier. I had to jump up and down on the creaky aluminum seat a bit, so they asked me to sit a little lower, so finally I'm almost there. I'm almost where I can fit under the roll cage. Nobody is looking properly. I received all services in the car. Someone's watching, so. I got home and I took the pan of the house and I threw it on the other side of my ramp truck, I got in the car and it fit perfectly, ah, here we go, and that's why I don't belong in the fast. cars because you have to know yourself you have to know yourself I mean, I don't have enough common sense when you put any kind of horsepower in front of me.

I don't make sense, I'll lose it completely. You just know it's like a disease. you just need to go well I lose track of common sense so not only do I have vertical I shouldn't say where the cost is I'm closed off by phobia I shouldn't be in one of these cars but then I don't even think you know, safety, so what happens is that I don't have paint on my helmet, it's just the roll cage here and the fiberglass shell of the helmet and the styrofoam and my skull, well, I'm going to do my second pass.

I've got one hundred percent nitro in the tank I've got everything ready to kill It's 68 degrees on the charger this thing is like a rocket I go out about 300 feet and the car shakes in the head with its lunch without with a jackhammer it ruined my brain big time, okay, go for a couple of weeks, it was what it was, but it was bad, so say it at that moment, I realize that no, you know what you shouldn't be. Driving his car is a lot of fun, you shouldn't be there, you don't belong there, so I continued on my way working and tuning other people's cars and you know it, and it was fine, I was completely happy with it. like the whole driving thing just left my system at that point and I had started to really get better.

I was getting a reputation and now I was starting to get paid. He was a paid technician and a paid tuner. I was traveling to all these different parts of the country and working on all these different cars and I was making decent money on them, but I still wanted to have my own right, so we put this one together and this one was in this one. in a Hot Rod magazine, so this was really unpleasant. Dave Benjamin's car, his body on an old Luger chassis and you know, no, I think we're only in this one time there was a Hot Rod magazine, so I did it. a story in Hot Rod magazine in the Asunción 97 issue called a few moments in hell and this is what it's like to drive a fuel walter and this is the car we use and this is the guy kathy supreme on valve covers and here's a Unique photo.

I didn't see this until it was in the magazine. Have you ever seen the top of your head? I never saw the top of my head, so I'm standing in a 7-eleven looking at this photo. in the magazine with this photo and realizes who the bald guy working on the car is. I was like holy shit, that's me, so actually when I shaved my head after that and then on the way back, you know, the girl that cut me. The hair on the way back from our house was like, but wait, why don't I do that?

I don't really care, so compass, yeah, anyway, make it seem really short now that we're in this car once or twice and then you know. I had just gotten to the end of the nitrous thing, pretty much the whole nature thing. I was still tuning other people's cars and let's go back to this 392 to make them go right, so when I built the 426 for the Walter fuel, I saved all of these. I picked up all of these fuel lines and put them on the new car, so this engine sat in the corner of my garage for a couple of years.

I'm selling it to a guy named, don't worry about his name, he has top-notch fuel. dragster in the middle in the midwest and he's. I sold it to him. I think I got sixty-five hundred dollars for this engine and they say it's complete, everything, his plug, White, his injection pan, his magneto, his spark plug wires, that's everything. you need a seatbelt, the whole thing, comes, drives to New York, picks it up, pays me, asks what's wrong with the fuel lines? and says: I know I searched for them for another car and gave him a couple of hundred islands for this. it's or just order another set of fuel lines, so now remember at this point I had established myself, I was a paid rental tuner, right, I was doing well and this guy takes this engine and puts it in his car. in the Midwest and I get it I got a phone call a couple days later and I just blew it up this is what I needed I blew it up he says just fireballs right I say fireballs he says yeah the block is broken can't I I tell you how many places and now I'm panicking because I have a reputation here.

You know, I get paid to drive these cars for people and this guy I just sold him an engine and he self-destructed. I jumped. in the car and rush out to where he is in the Midwest to check out this damage. I arrived there. Things were still hot when I arrived because my reputation is at stake. I'm like I'm in panic mode, so I'm fine seeing everything I'm going over. I'm trying to find the point of failure, you know, because I have to pay this guy back or I have to do something right and I realize I'm looking at the fuel. lines Well, what he did was he didn't realize that the stainless steel fuel lines that were used on these cars have a larger diameter than ninety thousand seven inches internal diameter.

Sorry, $100,000 for the inner diameter, used a set of brake lights, right? He went to a Waldo parts store and bought a set of brake lines and used brake lines. Can't they be there? Beautiful, well polished, they look like stainless steel, but there were brake lines and the brake line is only about 60 thousandths inside diameter, so What happened was this thing was very lean as soon as it hit the gas series on the problem, he became very poor and hurt himself from the starting line and he led that because he didn't know what it was. He was supposed to be doing it, he just liked it and finally turned into a grenade, so when I pointed it out to him it was like you know, okay, yeah, sorry, I shouldn't know, but here's another example of not you know. how much you don't know, you know, the learning curve is painful, it's unbearable, right, but it's something you have to go through and that's okay, so this is all with cars and nitro tractors and funny cars in this too, but it doesn't matter If you're doing stuff like this, well you're just fucking around, you restore muscle cars or you're just a street racer, you do imports, it doesn't matter what you're doing to get to the point where you're competent, you really know what you're doing, you have to make all these mistakes, you don't know how much you don't know right and you know that's it, be prepared if you want to take a little long trip with this car.

It's going to be painful it's going to be expensive it's going to be embarrassing like I've done it all and I might make mistakes I'm here aleem harassment do you know where these things are? you know they are tattooed on my soul but that's what makes me doubt everything second look everything be very careful before I already know this is how you learn this is how you pay your debts I guess that's what it's about this was one this was the car the Olsen brothers this was your my guy named Dale who just died I'm not sure what died recently but this was a Carter that was involved and these were also some that ended up in Toms River, New Jersey and then the interesting thing of this image is like the next frame if it is an engine image.

The next frame would have been kind of backwards as soon as they released it, this axle broke, the car spun to the side and flipped, you know, but here's another one that talked about bullying on a budget, right, I was building on a budget. , okay, so this This is the car that was featured in Hot Rod magazine and they needed some kind of windshield, so if you look here, it's a street sign that I stole, cut up, and rewrote. It was like this was something reflective right in the middle. the car Oh Mary, there is a trip to the past.

I don't think I'm going to close these books again and look at them. I guess when I'm on my deathbed, that's how I'll see tomorrow.