[ponyakr]

well, after that car show in '08 i got the old urge to do it again. but after all the water that had gone under the bridge i just could'nt tell T.J. face to face. i wrote down my fellings & handed it to her to read. i didn't know what reaction i'd get from her. but, once again, God bless T.J. she had been with me & had shared all my pontiac years & knew how much they ment to me. here's what she said, "i understand perfectly, i think thats great, go for it!" but then she added these words "but i can't finance it. you'll have to get a job to pay for it." so i went out & got me a min wage job & started savin & planin. of course, at 1st i looked for cars i was familiar with, old goats & birds. i quickly found that they were history around here. so i went to our local dragstrip to see what cars were runnin now. there were a few old camaros, novas & chevelles, but just as it had been 20 years before, no pontiac powered cars at all. but i did see some very nice lookin 3rd gen birds(chevy powered of course). well, it looked like there was enuff room to fit a pontiac motor, so i started lookin around for some old 3rd gen bodies. it was just like it had been with the '68's years before. they were plentiful & cheap. so just like before, i bought all i could find. they were still only about $300 or less, so i soon had 8 or 10 & was ready to put something together. i looked in car mags to get info on speed parts co, so i get some catalogs. i soon found out that some co no longer even printed cats. but, they said i could go to their web site & get all the info i needed. now folks, i was such a computer dummy, i didn't even know what a web site was. the only thing i knew about computers was that the little controller gizmo was called a mouse. so i went to the library, took a computer dummy course & learned just enuff too use 1 of their computers to find the sites i needed. then somebody told me about racingjunk.com. now in the old days, i could put a 12 sec bracket car together from scratch for $3000 with some left over. but this ain't the old days. i soon found out that inflation had struck. the hedman hedders i used to sell for $69.95 now cost over $250. when i added up my list of parts needed, it was shocking. as i looked for race cars on racingjunk.com, i saw that ready to race cars were for sale cheaper than i could build 1 from scratch. so i sold all the 3rd gens i'd bought & got an 11 sec '74 ventura 2, 455, th400, race ready. i've already told ya'll that story. so that catches you up to speed on the years between our last race in the late '80's thru '08. there have been some ups & downs, but overall i've really enjoyed my trip out of retirement, back into the pontiac world. T.J. added this ps "by the way, i did get the new house & horsebarn of my dreams & love them almost as much as i love my old PONYAKR!"