My Dad got me into cars when I was a kid. He wasn't into performance stuff, but he did as much work as he could himself. He had 2 or 3 VW Bugs. When I was 2, my uncle bought a brand new '73 340 cuda. So I knew what a cuda was at an early age, lol. His son now owns the cuda and is the one who told me about Moparts.

As far as racing, a friend of mine in high school told me about the local track, and that he knew people who raced there. And the street scene was huge in the 80's around here. So hanging out at those places got me into racing.