Supershafts
09-27-2007, 07:48 PM
I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Howard Beach Queens, my grandparents were from HB before it was HB along with there parents...somewhere is a picture of a 1 mile oval where rockwood park is now (or what others call new howard.)
I got into racing at the early age of 4, when my Uncle/god father John bought me a electric race car set...
That was all it took..............i was done...
From there i became obsessed i needed to know how it worked...how does it go faster...
At 7 i got my 1st gas powered kinda remote control car....things came a long way since then
At 8 i was severely beaten for hotrodding the lawnmower with nitro methane from my gas powered car.. This lead to all kinds of internal combustion engine experiments with all kinds of additives later on.
My neighbor Larry Moore whom i'll never forget took me and my freind Eddy to see our 1st race which was a night of thrills event at e-town.....little did Larry know what he would have turned me into....and it was a good thing.
During GS and HS i was designing cars instead of anything else...which got me front and center in most classes...if the teacher cared about teaching and not ignoring the mechanical design engineer in the back...
Hanging out with Larry we were the little guys or probably pests we might have been seen as, but we learned alot from watching and asking most likely annoying questions back then.
By freshman year of Brooklyn automotive i was bored with what we were up to at that point, and how so many guy's my age that suposedly loved cars hadn't a clue...i was lost..how could you love cars and not know distributor..when did these people wake up one day and love cars...it was shocking to me..
I got my 1st car from my grandparents which was a 70 plymouth sport fury, i was 15 and not allowed to go near it.....riiiiiiiiight...c'mon....well that ended up being sold...you guessed i didn't listen...
At 16 i started haunting my aunt for her 70 dart swinger gt...not so much different then what im doing now for a motorsports park....accept
for the loving little nice things and being sweet... yes i can be sweet
By 17 i had a job...i had a job at 12 thru 17 i was big for my age and lied about my age...i only got caught at 1 job and they let me go..even then i knew to be fast it cost money... eventually i got the Dart by 17, repainted it india red did some motor work to it ...and yep you guessed it right back to putting additivies into motors...
Then i had a friend who i went to bridgehampton with and got SOOOoooo HOOKED on road racing...
Then i moved out to wonderful long island..the land that had everything i loved, shooting ranges and racing, all the racing i loved to do, road racing, drag racing...
Then it was all gone, some were poor planning..it wasn't my fault it wasn't yours, but we got the horns..others were fought with, and we got the horns, and yet another was bad operations... WE got the horns...im tired of being prodded, i am damned tired of being called a name by ignorant people who have no idea what there talking about, you want me to go away...you brought me back and here i am, the same person that didn't know when to stop as kid and had a answer to everything that i was confronted with, i took my beatens and never gave in...
Now as a adult the same person with a answer for everything to those against me in our plight for a little space so we can all have a life with a little piece of what it is we enjoy, like we all used to have...
We took a few beatens, we watched trump get trumped, we had montecalvo get haulted, we had top gun lied to....2 times....now with Rex corp i have no intention of losing, i have no intention of giving up...
My father will tell you...he'll give you an ulcer, don't start him up, he'll never stop..well they started me up....im tired of sitting here idling, im loading up and we gotta clear it out...we can and we will win
I got into racing at the early age of 4, when my Uncle/god father John bought me a electric race car set...
That was all it took..............i was done...
From there i became obsessed i needed to know how it worked...how does it go faster...
At 7 i got my 1st gas powered kinda remote control car....things came a long way since then
At 8 i was severely beaten for hotrodding the lawnmower with nitro methane from my gas powered car.. This lead to all kinds of internal combustion engine experiments with all kinds of additives later on.
My neighbor Larry Moore whom i'll never forget took me and my freind Eddy to see our 1st race which was a night of thrills event at e-town.....little did Larry know what he would have turned me into....and it was a good thing.
During GS and HS i was designing cars instead of anything else...which got me front and center in most classes...if the teacher cared about teaching and not ignoring the mechanical design engineer in the back...
Hanging out with Larry we were the little guys or probably pests we might have been seen as, but we learned alot from watching and asking most likely annoying questions back then.
By freshman year of Brooklyn automotive i was bored with what we were up to at that point, and how so many guy's my age that suposedly loved cars hadn't a clue...i was lost..how could you love cars and not know distributor..when did these people wake up one day and love cars...it was shocking to me..
I got my 1st car from my grandparents which was a 70 plymouth sport fury, i was 15 and not allowed to go near it.....riiiiiiiiight...c'mon....well that ended up being sold...you guessed i didn't listen...
At 16 i started haunting my aunt for her 70 dart swinger gt...not so much different then what im doing now for a motorsports park....accept
for the loving little nice things and being sweet... yes i can be sweet
By 17 i had a job...i had a job at 12 thru 17 i was big for my age and lied about my age...i only got caught at 1 job and they let me go..even then i knew to be fast it cost money... eventually i got the Dart by 17, repainted it india red did some motor work to it ...and yep you guessed it right back to putting additivies into motors...
Then i had a friend who i went to bridgehampton with and got SOOOoooo HOOKED on road racing...
Then i moved out to wonderful long island..the land that had everything i loved, shooting ranges and racing, all the racing i loved to do, road racing, drag racing...
Then it was all gone, some were poor planning..it wasn't my fault it wasn't yours, but we got the horns..others were fought with, and we got the horns, and yet another was bad operations... WE got the horns...im tired of being prodded, i am damned tired of being called a name by ignorant people who have no idea what there talking about, you want me to go away...you brought me back and here i am, the same person that didn't know when to stop as kid and had a answer to everything that i was confronted with, i took my beatens and never gave in...
Now as a adult the same person with a answer for everything to those against me in our plight for a little space so we can all have a life with a little piece of what it is we enjoy, like we all used to have...
We took a few beatens, we watched trump get trumped, we had montecalvo get haulted, we had top gun lied to....2 times....now with Rex corp i have no intention of losing, i have no intention of giving up...
My father will tell you...he'll give you an ulcer, don't start him up, he'll never stop..well they started me up....im tired of sitting here idling, im loading up and we gotta clear it out...we can and we will win