QUOTE [last 12 years, I have built a new house, got divorced(again), started a business from nothing, had quadruple bypass heart surgey, both parents passed, stay busy with work and tuning other peoples cars and other assorted things.]

Holy smokes! I THOUGHT my last decade was busy and keeping me out of the garage more than I like. Wow...

Good stuff, thanks for sharing.

I love seeing old school stuff. Everyone takes cell phone pictures now and if you don't back up your pictures on a site like photobucket they are all gone when your phone crashes. Save them up youngsters as you with be happy that you did as you get OLD like us dinosaurs. Lol

then make sure you stuff 'em in old shoe boxes so you can't find 'em like i do. i need to do a big sort out this winter when i get snowed in.

I got sick and ended up in the emergency room 7-23-16 and had some health issues that needed addressed real quick. I was semi house bound for 3 plus weeks and when I started feeling better I started cleaning up my house. Being divorced and not much of a house cleaner I hit it and hit it HARD. Cleaning kitchen cabinets, then the hall closet, then boxing cloths out of my closet that no longer fit, and finally gathering and organising my old 35mm pictures. Most of my digital stuff is on my computer and backed up on PhotoBucket so it was kinda neat finding pictures I haven't seen in YEARS.

was that indianapolis, if it was I was there

Great post and i remember reading this when Monte first started it. Rat Patrol was a bad dude back in the day, the Detroit street racing was good times.

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If you are looking for a response from Monte, it won't come. Monte passed away a few years ago.

While this post is brought back up, can anyone contribute and give the history or “story” of Monte, and how he became involved with cars, engines, and his wealth of knowledge? I think it would be nice to know. And unfortunately, I just don’t know alot sbout him.

Read through this post, and Monte tells all about it. He basically grew up in it.

my dad, 75 senior pic....

Miss him a lot!

Still bangin gears with ya buddy!

No Springfield Il. That hemi was a monster.