OK you can unsubscribe me

I'm 47, pushing 48. What can I say, I was a child protoge.
Actually I had a lot of help. My father raced motorcycles, and when I was 13, I started spending my weekends sweeping floors & washing parts for a local engine builder who built alot of motors for NHRA class racers(mostly MP and Gas) and was the local Booth-Arons connection.Took a LOT of abuse, as he was a die-hard chevy guy, and i was already a Mopar nut, but the man was a GENIUS, excellent fabricator, taught me how to TIG weld & gas weld aluminum, and how to PROPERLY assemble an engine. Also taught me how the think, and to see what was ACTUALLY happening with a race car, rather than what I THOUGHT SHOULD be happening. I saw some pretty wild stuff at an early age. Gas-ported BRCs that wieghed about as much as a ham sandwich, piston pins that wieghed as much as an average ball-point pen, chevy turbo heads that had ports that didnt look ANYTHING like what ports in turbo castings NORMALLY looked like... And all before I was old enough to drive.