So after I rolled my 1999 TA literally on may way to work with my daughter in the car seat that protected her... was later recalled and I testified to support the company because it was on the parents who could not properly buckle the seat and their kids. Crazy but true. That resulted in one of the freak insurance events with the basic 1999 TA became a 2001-WS6.
I immediately went to the original Detroit Speedworks (don't whine or bitch... that's why we're all know each other from and where MM came to life lol) and started upgrading the 2001-WS6. That's how I officially met the "Man-in-Plaid" (bonus points for those that remember and if he's watching as an old timer he needs to chime in) and the cast of characters (Tom, Jeff and whole lot of great MM founders) that were MM back in the day. My original "E-Rock" (love you my brother)... Tom the "stunt man"... how many peopler remember the superballs and the Ionia free-fair?? "Eric turbo guy" who's wheel fell off on I-94 and later Eric the MM video compiler. Let's not forget one of the original characters... "Fish" (points for those that remember the fall). How about a young Mr Matt H... the god-father of twin turbos in 4th gens. He was the monster from Cornell who used to drag a y-pipe being chased by another guy's cop car (points if you can remember the cop car owner and some will) with a mad man who's name starts with a "B" as a cheerleader and the best entertainer. Then there was an amazing bunch of great kids who we know as the "Icks" who have kept MM moving.
We have a few honorary "Icks" to name as well, true car guys that as "kids", helped out a lot of people as well. One has a beautiful Vert and the other might be known as awiring guy, but he was the only dude with "ballz big enough" to run the White Mustang. By the way... who likes PIE????? I literally did a 720 in the rain on telegraph the night of that quote. Worn drag radials are not ment for cruising in the rain. That was a certain southside bar preparing for a Pinks All Out Event with our drivers and crew lol.
Speaking of Pinks, we are lucky enough to have built one car and raced the west side of MM in their car for the event back in 2007. I might be shameless in saying, we brought the two best balanced all out cheap built cars ever shown on the show. We had the two best drivers for the cars that didn't care and we had the two best crews enjoying being there to play. Good TV and better racing with all the scenes everyone missed out on. Red Roof Inn to the front for the best towels and Raj for the rental car radiator cap.
Pinks doesn't happen from the MM east side without the gifted car, all of the parts shared from all MM family with spare ford parts and Mr Matt S's dealership quality paint job. The dedicated hard work from Larry, the twins, Joe, Reiko, many other MMers and my neighbors being patient/helping.
Saso still has one of the best MM quotes in history ... "dudes... do you not know the firing order of a Ford Windsor".... "errr" said a bunch of GM computer EFI guys that put the ThunderStang together after reading on the internet lol. All right Saso had a great quote, but I forgot Johnny's on the first test run of ThunderStang. He made a test hit in the parking lot with the first time on Nitrous and we did not have the hood on. He nailed it on a certain Lake Orion distribution warehouse parking lot and something shot to the sky that seemed to land around the time he got back from the hit. A breather launched... his quote was "This bitch will ride". Then there was the infamous test hit up in Lapeer when he beat a rail car on the hit and shut it down when he realized that he didn't have steering before the rail car even got close to catching up. We had stripped the car clean but had not cut out the steering wheel locking slider. The car came down hard and locked the steering up. Johnny felt it and shut it down in those .2 to .3's of the launch. We figured it out and zipped tied the lock. He said is ready??? we said "we hope"... he said "I'm ready." Straight up big Ballz racing.
Two thumbs down to the Chicago crowd (it's old... but it still plays lol) that didn't want any part of either of the Michigan cars after the show lol.
Motown Muscle has a crazy history and we've all heard parts of it, and we've added to it along the way. We have car people, we have drag racing people, we have road racing people, we have show car people and we have kids that we bring along for the rides we enjoy. We have adults and we have many that have been here and raising the next generation of members. Life will always be a Marathon and not a sprint. We all love this hobby/sport and we all have to balance it with our life goals int the moment. This post is about sharing how you got here, what you're doing now, and what you want to do when you get more free time to enjoy your cars and projects.
I've taken a long stretch off. I'm finally finding time to work on the car after 11 years. I hope to be back on the road to see people with something other than the tow vehicle or a pretty Dodge. For those that remember the pinks garage build... this year will be something similar but hopefully a lot quicker.
I immediately went to the original Detroit Speedworks (don't whine or bitch... that's why we're all know each other from and where MM came to life lol) and started upgrading the 2001-WS6. That's how I officially met the "Man-in-Plaid" (bonus points for those that remember and if he's watching as an old timer he needs to chime in) and the cast of characters (Tom, Jeff and whole lot of great MM founders) that were MM back in the day. My original "E-Rock" (love you my brother)... Tom the "stunt man"... how many peopler remember the superballs and the Ionia free-fair?? "Eric turbo guy" who's wheel fell off on I-94 and later Eric the MM video compiler. Let's not forget one of the original characters... "Fish" (points for those that remember the fall). How about a young Mr Matt H... the god-father of twin turbos in 4th gens. He was the monster from Cornell who used to drag a y-pipe being chased by another guy's cop car (points if you can remember the cop car owner and some will) with a mad man who's name starts with a "B" as a cheerleader and the best entertainer. Then there was an amazing bunch of great kids who we know as the "Icks" who have kept MM moving.
We have a few honorary "Icks" to name as well, true car guys that as "kids", helped out a lot of people as well. One has a beautiful Vert and the other might be known as awiring guy, but he was the only dude with "ballz big enough" to run the White Mustang. By the way... who likes PIE????? I literally did a 720 in the rain on telegraph the night of that quote. Worn drag radials are not ment for cruising in the rain. That was a certain southside bar preparing for a Pinks All Out Event with our drivers and crew lol.
Speaking of Pinks, we are lucky enough to have built one car and raced the west side of MM in their car for the event back in 2007. I might be shameless in saying, we brought the two best balanced all out cheap built cars ever shown on the show. We had the two best drivers for the cars that didn't care and we had the two best crews enjoying being there to play. Good TV and better racing with all the scenes everyone missed out on. Red Roof Inn to the front for the best towels and Raj for the rental car radiator cap.
Pinks doesn't happen from the MM east side without the gifted car, all of the parts shared from all MM family with spare ford parts and Mr Matt S's dealership quality paint job. The dedicated hard work from Larry, the twins, Joe, Reiko, many other MMers and my neighbors being patient/helping.Saso still has one of the best MM quotes in history ... "dudes... do you not know the firing order of a Ford Windsor".... "errr" said a bunch of GM computer EFI guys that put the ThunderStang together after reading on the internet lol. All right Saso had a great quote, but I forgot Johnny's on the first test run of ThunderStang. He made a test hit in the parking lot with the first time on Nitrous and we did not have the hood on. He nailed it on a certain Lake Orion distribution warehouse parking lot and something shot to the sky that seemed to land around the time he got back from the hit. A breather launched... his quote was "This bitch will ride".
Then there was the infamous test hit up in Lapeer when he beat a rail car on the hit and shut it down when he realized that he didn't have steering before the rail car even got close to catching up. We had stripped the car clean but had not cut out the steering wheel locking slider. The car came down hard and locked the steering up. Johnny felt it and shut it down in those .2 to .3's of the launch. We figured it out and zipped tied the lock. He said is ready??? we said "we hope"... he said "I'm ready." Straight up big Ballz racing. Two thumbs down to the Chicago crowd (it's old... but it still plays lol) that didn't want any part of either of the Michigan cars after the show lol.
Motown Muscle has a crazy history and we've all heard parts of it, and we've added to it along the way. We have car people, we have drag racing people, we have road racing people, we have show car people and we have kids that we bring along for the rides we enjoy. We have adults and we have many that have been here and raising the next generation of members. Life will always be a Marathon and not a sprint. We all love this hobby/sport and we all have to balance it with our life goals int the moment. This post is about sharing how you got here, what you're doing now, and what you want to do when you get more free time to enjoy your cars and projects.
I've taken a long stretch off. I'm finally finding time to work on the car after 11 years. I hope to be back on the road to see people with something other than the tow vehicle or a pretty Dodge.
For those that remember the pinks garage build... this year will be something similar but hopefully a lot quicker. 
Hung out with those fellas quite a bit along with Eric (Roadrage) Harlan, Stenod, Frezza, Denny (AutoRoc), Joe (Duke), Brian (TurboBuick), John (BlackHawk) and many others. Managed to make it to one of the events that some of the members went to that was down in Louisiana and saw Harlan and Harold put down some (at the time) eye opening 1/4 mile times. The good old days!
Anyway, I don't remember who exactly was with us, just remember trying to track the waitress down later in Mt. Clemens. And no, we weren't stalking her, she invited us. 
