Re: PESO:The Saga of Dave and Shirl

[Paul Stenquist]

Thanks Cotty. I must have been in a typing mood last night :-). And 
that was without alcohol :-))
On Mar 12, 2005, at 8:42 AM, Cotty wrote:

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
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