The Recipe

Well we did it again , got a lot of hot sauce cooked up and appeased the pepper gods ! This was a very odd year because we were missing some very key elements!!! , Richard Sealey, Bill "Waysack"Snider and Bill" The Grand" Diehl ,all three past away this year and it's been tough on the families and friends. Lucky for us all three were looking down on upon us to guide us through the rough spots ! We are sorely gonna miss our dearly departed brothers in the Peppers !!We made about 87 gallons and its good stuff too !

wheel spacing

We had a bit of an issue with wheel and tire clearance on the rear. Part of this might be miscommunication with Mike and I or just the fact Mike loves to buy the shiny stuff !! Ha, Ha ! That aside we needed more room for the tire clearance, and with the car now painted this was a problem. Enter the Eastwood tool Company, they have some cool stuff and we purchased a tool to stretch the fender wells slowly. It worked , it was a bit of a learning curve and we felt like it could have some more adjustments and that was because we were learning the tool. Any way it worked well and the problem is much better now, so lets try and "get er done ."

The next little detail was to get a drive shaft made up , we turned to Fleet Pride in Memphis ,they handle truck parts ,U-Joints and stuff like dat! The machinist Jeff was a very knowledgeable guy who helped us decide on which options would be best for the power the Nova was gonna make , and Bing-o the next day we had a nice shiny drive shaft! P.S hey Mike where'd ya get those Chinese eyes?

Amsoil at Sema

Many of you are aware that for several years I've been a Amsoil dealer .I started out to be able to just buy the products at a reduced rate and slowly began treating it like a small business ,and while it often is not the focus of all my attentions it is always available to me. These products are the very best quality and have proved themselves superior in tons of independant test . this year Amsoil will agian be at the SEMA show in Las Vegas. Sema ( specialty equiptment manufactures association ) is a huge show the exposes all the cool things in the automotive related feilds.Check out this link to Amsoils sight to learn more about SEMA !http://amsoilupdate.blogspot.com/2009/09/anticipation-building-for-sema-2009.html And hopefully if you are interested in Amsoil prouducts or might want to become a dealer contact me ! Thanks Willie

taking a break

Well it's been a while since I last posted , took a bit of a break . Mike and I decided to go fishing which we used to do with a little bit more regularity. This was a special trip it was Mikes bacholor party !,no not the wild party ya'll have in mind just two friends enjoying all nature has to offer and talking about the past and future .It sure was nice !,and at the same time a little weird ,the first time to stay at Mom and Dad's cabin since his death.

The weather was great as was the company, but the fish catching lacked a bit of luster! As usual Mr.Helton gave me a bit of schooling, on the fine art of fishing !!! I am known as a fisherman , Helton on the other hand is a catcher !!

We saw a couple of bad boats one smll block powered V-Drive flat bottom that showed off for us with perhaps a couple of 70 mph. plus runs, he said it would do 90mph. but that remains to be proven!!!Two other fountain boats one i took a pic of was a beautiful multi colored twin big block, that was awesome! Anyway congrats Mike and Sindy hope life is sweet for you both !!