You just made my day Glenn , all the best to you . My story ? It's kind of like yours , a little I think . In high school (early 70s') we had a really nice machine shop , I took classes . I had a Austin Healey bug eye Sprite at the time and was making parts for it . After high school I enrolled in a local under grad collage and took more machine classes , at that time I was racing a Speedway bike ( please see a pic in the members hang out called my wasted youth ) . After dropping out of collage after about 3 yrs. I started working in machine shops , I needed money . In one shop I met a guy he wanted to build a race car , I thought that was a good idea so we did . The car was built for a class (D Sports Racing) in the SCCA it had a tube chassis , alum. body and a Kawasaki 1,000 cc engine . It was a total waste of time and money . So that bormance was over but I still wanted to race . Next I bought a Formula Ford , Lola . I had a blast with that car , and that is the class where I should have stayed , but I didn't next up was a Formula Atlantic with a Ford Cosworth engine , now I was in over my head big time so I folded the racing thing up and started a machine shop that was 85' . Ran the shop till 2009 , and now I'm retired . Thanks for asking bro. keep us posted .