West side of Indianapolis - 10 blocks from Indianapolis Raceway Park - and 10 miles from Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Grew up here in Indy and practically lived at IMS back in the 70's when they didn't have cookie cutter race cars...
4 years in the airforce as the crew chief and inflight mechanic on a KC135 (Boeing 707) refueling tanker. Been to almost every place americans could go in the early 80's - many places you wouldn't want to go. Spend many months underground on Alert waiting for the horn to sound so we could launch our planes to refuel the B52's with nukes. Went through a ton of car magainzes and sketch pads.....
21 years in aviation working on L1011, 727, 737, 757, 767 and DC10 aircraft. Last 12 years manager of training at a major airline recently exiting bankrupcy - while many are still there. Not much fun in aviation anymore - might be time for a career change and build cars. Currently building the 65 porsche coupe with a c5 drive and suspension.
Married 15 years to a wonderfull and understanding wife who tollerates all my car and woodworking projects and tools, and more tools, and more tools.
Jim
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