On 12/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED], discombobulated, unleashed: >Back in the sixties my buddy Dave was 18 years old. Every Friday night he >would >do what every other teenager in Detroit did. He'd cruise the drive-in >restaurants on Gratiot and Woodward Avenues, testing his tire-smoking 427 >Ford >in a street race here and there, and hitting on the teenage girls. One >night in >1964, he ran into a cute girl from the city named Shirley who had imbibed >a bit >too much beer and was trying to hitch a ride home. Being the gentleman >that he >was, he did exactly that: drove her home. Within a year they were married. By >the seventies they had babies and a little ranch house. Dave had to sell >his hot >Ford and settle for a cheap little family car. The bad years for the US auto >industry killed cruising, and the lights went out on Woodward and >Gratiot. But >Dave and Shirl never forgot. Over the yers Dave became one of the best Dodge >mechanics in the area and Shirl became a medical technician. They raised >their >kids, paid for their house and saved some money. Eventually the car biz came >back strong in Motown, the lights on Woodward and Gratiot went back on, >and the >cruise came back. So Dave and Shirl took their life savings out of the >bank and >built one of the most outrageous street machines the town had ever seen. >It's a >$100,000 88 Dodge Shadow. It's built on a race car chassis with the best >suspension and driveline parts money can buy. The engine is a 9 liter >Chrysler >Max Wedge that delivers 800 horsepower to the rear wheels. Dave and >Shirley are >back. Here's a shot of them and their car that I took at the Detroit Autorama >last weekend. I shot it with the DA 16-45 at 16mm, f4, 1/15th second. And >yes, >the car really is that red and Dave and Shirl are still in love. They're >wonderful people, and I'm glad I got to know them and their amazing Shadow. > >http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3188583&size=lg
Nice story and pic. Well done. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________
