..who try and steal the...CORRRR-NER!!!

 

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original post of corner overage edited as to not look like a NEWBIE

 

hahaha nice corner

 

: nods head in thanks :

 

:impressed by Andy's use of evB in various threads:

 

I'm now into my 3rd real (not counting time spent as entrepreneur) career. 1st, and the hardest, most stressful, time-intensive, was that of professional race car mechanic/crew chief for many different race teams (i.e. Roush Racing). At one point, when I was running the IMSA Dodge Daytonas driven by Joe Varde, Kal Showket, Jeremy Dale, et al, I was working 30 hrs straight, home for 6, then back for 30. Did that for 2 months straight until we had the '89 cars built.

After that, I was the sr. engineer at Buell Motorcycle. When I started there, I was employee #14, and we often worked out of Erik Buell's barn. I was the program manager on the M2 Cyclone - that was my baby, and watching the very first bike come off the production line was almost as emotional as having my first child. Of course, we had taken that from a clean sheet of paper to production in 10 months, faster than anyone in the industry has ever done We used to joke that all the work was done by the "3 a.m. Coffee Club" (Erik, myself, Brett). When I left, H-D had too much creative control, we had over 200 employees, and were building 40+ bikes/day.

Now, I supply brake components to the Big 3. My company (Nissin) is the primary brake supply to Honda for both cars and motorcycles. However, I don't have much contact with the Honda side (unfortunately)!

There, a nice resume, in less than 50 lines

oh, and ink:

 

Interesting career Martin, do you find your current career rewarding enough ? You seem like a guy who really relishes a challenge.

 

My first thought on this reminded me of all those little green alien guys in the movie Toy Story. The Claw chose who got to go to the outside world.

The Claw.

 

Wow Martin! That's a sweet resume indeed. Sometimes I wish I stuck to pit work and restorations, but instead I chose to come here and study architecture. Before that I did a lot of varying jobs, all involving drawing of some kind....I was an animator (hand drawing), and I have also done computer FX for film, corporate identity design, and storyboarding. Architecture by itself doesn't pacify me.

Cars are in my blood though. I don't know what I would do without tools! Haha.


THE SHOPGUYS

I am still looking for a garage down here (live in an apartment) so I can bring my little collection and my mini-machine shop down to DC

 

Jim's GF: "Hi" :runs up and gives Jim hug:
Jim: "Hi" :returns hug facing his car:
Jim's GF: "You're staring at you're car again aren't you"
Jim: "I think I need to check the alignment tonight...I hope I can find the new socket set"


Jim's GF rolls eyes