HOUSTON-VEGAS-INDY

Hello, all. It's been a busy week. I told you I'd write back soon. Well, it's not soon, but I'm writing back.

It's Friday evening, and the car's jacked up, the motor's apart, the heads are freshened, and new rods and pistons are ready to go back in. Alan has been hard at work cutting floaters and discs. Ozzie has been working on parachute system stuff and numerous fabrication projects.

The show car is being prepared for the vocational school competition at the New York International Auto Show, where I'll be the keynote speaker at the breakfast that kicks off the show. It's at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in downtown New York City, and this is our fourth year representing Permatex there. We're leaving Easter Sunday to pick up the body at Circus Custom Paints in New Jersey, and then we're off to New York.

From there, it's straight to Houston for the Spring Nationals. Guess what? That's not going to be our only race for the next month. When we leave Houston, we will, as the great and fabulous Ed Parker says, turn left instead of right. We're not heading back to Massachusetts; we're going to Las Vegas for the SummitRacing Nationals.

The Division 3 race in Indianapolis, Todd's hometown, is right on the way back home from Vegas, so we're running that race, too. We're all excited about this opportunity to run back-to-back races. I really appreciate the Dream Team and everybody's dedication.

Hope you all have a great weekend! I'll talk back at you at the beginning of next week.

Jay