Fellow Car Nuts:
I didn't want to hijack the 427 FE thread--so I started a new one. I guess a few of you are wondering about my comments on wheelchairs. Here's the story.
Back in November, the LDS Church invited me and my wife to the annual Humanitarian Dinner. The dinner is held every year for those who have donated to the Church's Humanitarian efforts. As many of you remember, we donated a car to the Church for the relief of the tsunami victims in Indonesia a few years back. During the dinner, there was a presentation on the Church's wheelchair project.
During the presentation, they mentioned in passing they were having problems with the quality of the wheelchairs, as they were breaking in the rough terrain and streets of 3rd World Countries. They were very concerned because they wanted to find a way to fix the problem to continue to improve the lives of the people they were able to give mobility to.
I thought to myself, "Metal? Welding? Metallurgy? Wheels? Mobility? Isn't that what Kirkham Motorsports is all about?" So, after the dinner I went up and volunteered our services to redesign the wheelchair for manufacturability and durability in harsh realities of those countries. Some of you may remember I was a missionary in Peru (until I was transferred to California because of Typhoid) and so I have lived among desperate people.
I consider this the most important Hot Rod project we have ever undertaken. I hope to have a prototype soon.
David
