Keith,
You will be there when it's "your time", trust me. As for a Place to stuff the
toys...get off some money and build a bigger Shop!!!
joe
Keith Turk wrote:
> Joe did you get an exact Date on "my time".... Just thought I would ask...
> as.... well I'd Like to be there....
>
> K ( kicking back cleaning up the shop again... fella has to do it once a
> year... and each year it gets harder to find a hole to stuff this years toys
> in)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Timney" <joetimney@dol.net>
> To: "Land-speed List" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 1:54 AM
> Subject: Occupation
>
> > This thread has been very interesting. Here is my addition:
> >
> > Born 1950, in South Philly (That's in South Philadelphia, PA), oldest of
> > 10 children. My youth was filled with the construction & testing of
> > wooden carts complete with baby buggy wheels to ride down the steepest
> > hill in the 'hood, a cobblestone driveway leading down from a mob home!
> > Learned early about design revisions, e.g., wood screws hold better than
> > nails. Also, how to make friends with 'the neighbors'!!! ( Hey,
> > Jonathan, this is where the special saying came from!!! Not printable
> > here!)
> >
> > Married 30+ years to my high school sweetheart, we have three children,
> > Heather, 24, lives in Asheville, NC, ten minutes from John Beckett. She
> > works for a food service group, feeding musical groups on tour. She is a
> > road warrior just like dad! My son, Matthew, 20, is a junior at the
> > University Of Delaware, Studying to be an accountant...somebody has got
> > to do the books here!!! Matt's passion is fishing and custom rod
> > building. My Youngest is Katie Rose, 14 going on 37. Her passion...boys
> > (God help me!)
> >
> > Worked in a gas station thru high school. Went into a machine shop,
> > which led to a Tool & Die Apprenticeship at the General Electric's
> > Switchgear plant in SW Philly, while attending Temple University at
> > night ( in the ghetto ). After a number of years of 'dodging bullets', I
> > went to work at Dupont, working on a R&D project, code named "Fibre B",
> > known as Kevlar today. Had a set of tires on my big block El Camino made
> > with Kevlar, wore like iron...side walls blew at 75,000 miles just like
> > all of the test tires did!
> >
> > The energy Crisis in the mid-seventies, lead to the shut down of the
> > facility, so I got a job at S&W Race Cars. My job was to tool up the
> > Econo dragster productionline. Got to build all kinds of cars, I even
> > got to build a dual engined drag bike! Worked at a Specialty Welding
> > shop at night, got my NASA Cert and welded space jewelery, the bands for
> > spacesuits. Some of my stuff made it to the moon. Money lead me back to
> > Dupont where I worked in R&D, Managed Tooling, Purchasing and Materials
> > Departments. Managed the Machine & Fab Shop the last four years until
> > the plant was sold several times and the 'new guys' didn't need most of
> > us anymore!!! So, they retired me!!!!!!.
> >
> > In '79, I opened my business, Delaware Chassis Works, working nights and
> > weekends building cars, bikes and fabricating parts for various people.
> > When I retired, I chose to just do what I wanted to do since 1979, work
> > for myself! Today, I'm a toy maker, of big boy toys...who could be
> > happier!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > My racing life graduated from wooden carts to drag racing in '65, my
> > first ride was a hemi Coronet and proceeded poorly as I took out the
> > lights at ACTO Dragway in NJ. Got involved with the Jade Grenade
> > Front-Engine T/F digger , Neil Mahr's Fueler, and many other drag teams,
> > touring the country. Drag racing was "MY Thing" for many years, until I
> > found the ECTA in '97. Went to one meet, came home and sold my
> > rear-engined Supercomp Dragster and went Landspeed Racing. Got hooked up
> > with Lionel Williams & John Beckett and drove Lionel's Lakester at
> > Maxton in '98, Lionel's S-10 at Bonneville in '99 and the truck and the
> > Chevette at Bonneville in 2000, setting three records and getting into
> > the 200MPH Club. ( I didn't say anything, Keith!!! Your time will come!)
> >
> > For 2001, The BWT Motorsports Group is building a new car for CompCoupe.
> > We plan on making Bonneville, a thrash but I've been there before, I
> > know how!!!
> >
> > I've got to tell you that landspeed racing has brought me back to the
> > way I felt in the sixties drag racing...where everybody was your friend,
> > would lend you anything, help you all night and never ask for anything.
> > This is a very special deal...one to be cherished and needs everyone's
> > help to keep it in good health!
> >
> > See you on the concrete, salt and hopefully, the dirt in 2001!!!!
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