New builder to this forum here...

[TommyD]

Hello, folks. Please be patient while I try to figure out your ways of doing things on here.

I'm building a F-5 MkII, with 460, 535HP "crate" engine, TKO and pin drive IRS, with the 15" pin drive wheels. I hope that's acceptable here among all the exotic stuff I have seen lurking about. I have finished the foot boxes, running the rear wiring, fuel line and battery cable on the "roller". I am about to start on the intake and oil pan change, so I can get the engine/trans ready to drop.

I am 55. I have raced cross country motorcycles many years ago, and about 15 years ago was drag racing an injected alcohol V-6 Mercury outboard. I still know some of the guys doing that crazy hobby and, regretfully, some are no longer around.

In the last 15 years, I have restored a '65 Corvette, and then a '69 Z28. I have wanted to build one of these "snake" things for about 15 years, but was always side-tracked from all the horror stories and bad experiences I read about. Last March I decided that if I were going to do this, I better get after it. The "Z" car went on the internet and it's in Detroit, now, with a happy new owner. In April, I ordered the car and it was delivered June 12th.

I have tried to join the Texas Cobra Club several times, but keep getting some crazy message that wouldn't allow me to access that address. Hopefully my I.S. guy got me the correct address this morning, which ended up being: Txinternet@aol.com. I wrote whoever that is and left them a message that I wanted to join. If this was wrong, and old folks like me are acceptable in your club, please let me know how to join.

Thanks,
Tommy Davis
Argyle, Texas (south of Denton)