Hi! I used to go by "mojaveracer" since 2009, but very rarely logged in under that. Now I tried to log in and was having trouble. Maybe just becuz I so rarely log in. So instead of bugging the admins about it, I decided to just re-up under the ID I use for other forums. "DustyMojave" My old ID above is a link to my old intro. Admins are welcome to delete my old ID if they so choose. I plan to add some photos of some projects I've worked on in the past. Maybe in the gallery. Some other info about me : Along with growing up around hot rods and road racers and dry lakes, I got into offroad racing in the early 70s. Dad's old hotrodding buddy Mickey Thompson came around in 72 to ask him to write the technical part of the rulebook for the new SCORE organization he was creating. I was in high school at the time and had been working Tech at road races since I was 7. So once SCORE got rolling in 73, I was there working Tech. In the late 70s, I started building myself a race car. By the time it was race ready after 2 years, it was already kinda outdated. But I wasn't expecting to win everything 1st time out. It cost me 2 years worth of gross income to build it in 2 years as it was. I eventually won a Championship with it in 1983 and nearly repeated in 84. In 86 I got laid off from the plastics industry as it started to move to China (literally thanks to the woman in the next cubicle). So I changed career to fabricating on race cars, off roaders and hotrods. I've restored vintage midgets and sprints that have wound up in museums and Trans Am champions, I've crewed on a modern TransAm team on their way to win the Championship. I've also crewed and fabricated on a Super Modified with an 800hp engine hanging outside the frame that turned laps at the Phoenix mile that would have put it mid-pack for the Indy car race a month later. I've built offroad race cars which have won their respective classes in the Baja 1000. I've worked on a number of hotrods from fiberglass deuce highboys, to 27 track roadsters, to a couple of 29s on deuce rails, to a really sweet 37 coupe which got a variety of flathead motors. And along the road of my life I've gotten to be around and friends with some great people. Like one of my dad's best buddies, Tom Beatty. And Wes Cooper who had been running Lakes in SoCal from 1927 'til the moment he passed away in my other buddy Ray Basso's pickup doing patrol at El Mirage. Wes had a fresh time slip in his hand showing a new record for the Creel, Donovan and Cooper 34 coupe. Ray passed a couple years later, followed by his close pal and partner in the Basso, Klos and Kong streamliner, Kong Jackson. Great guys and real "characters" all. My son Warren is 18 now and has grown up around all this stuff, as I did. On forums, he goes by the handle "3gtech" as he is a 3rd generation race car Tech Inspector. Very responsible and learning more all the time. He's working part-time as a fabricator at Crumco race cars building race and play Baja Bugs. And as a co-driver in the AGS Racing 5-16 Baja bug, he's working on his & their 3rd consecutive Championship. His mom and I are quite proud of him. So that's a heck of a long intro guys and it's past time for me to call it and catch some shut-eye before I get up at 4-something to hit the road.
Hmmm..... My Intro post of 2 nites ago just showed up. I guess a Moderator got around to checking it out. Now that I presumed it had been rejected and added this Intro...I have now introduced myself 3 times on this forum. So I figured I should cross-reference all 3 to preclude confusion. 1st - http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=389772 2nd - http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=742763 3rd - http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=8252350#post8252350 So I suppose I'm good to move on from here...
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