Thanks Jim. Dan doesn't know you guys well since he only met you the one time at Daytona, so he refers to you and Bill (Gastrick) by what cars you drive. When we were talking about the nerfs the other night he said he didn't know you had put one on your T project, but he really loved all the stuff you did to your A. He also said he spent time looking at Bills nerf and liked the way he had done it and his interior work too.

Dan is a trip! He has taught himself to weld and fabricate pretty much all on his own, and sometimes drives me nuts with the time he takes to do the smallest bracket. I'm a very impatient guy, while he likes to study something for a long time before he does it. I realized a long time ago that he had surpassed me in his skills and I call him over to my projects pretty often to just get his opinion. I usually end up tearing it apart and taking his suggestions though, as it becomes apparent he had a better way to do it. When I am helping him work on his car and he gets to staring at something, I usually go pick up a broom and make myself useful, because I know it will be a while before we start welding again.

What most people don't know about Dan, or his Brother Don too, is that they are really good musicians. Both play the sax and work pretty often. Don plays 6 nights a week and Dan tries to limit it to about one or two. They have played backup for some pretty good groups like Sam and Dave, the Coasters, the Shirells (sp) I haven't heard Dan play since his Brothers wedding almost 3 years ago because his gigs are usually out of town, but Don plays mostly local, so I get to hear him fairly often. Obviously, I'm pretty proud of both of them.........they are my life.

Thanks Brian. So chrome plating is more expensive in Canada? Does it have to do with environmental issues or something like that? Chrome shops are getting harder to find down here too because when one closes up they don't let another one open too easily.

Don