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Update #1
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By Kenny Johnson
05 Feb 2009
Preparing for 2009 – 25 Years;
2009 will make my 25th year racing; wow that is
hard to believe. It’s probably even harder to believe for Dad. Dad is the one
that after driving for 10 years gave up his racing so that I could start mine.
That is a very unselfish man and a terrific Dad. So when he complains about all
the racing I do, he can know that it is all his fault. . . LOL
We have been out in the garage often preparing the
car and the garage for this coming racing season. Jason took the car back to
Hassy and set it on the jig and made some minor changes. Tim Cooper and Brian
Dennewitz have been getting the garage in order and now Tim will be starting on
the trailer. The Lemon family (Tom, Pam, Trey and Lane) have been out several
times and have worked on stripping the old decals off the trailer and have
helped with the car as well. I put a new body on the car and gave it a new look
with silver aluminum. K-Graphics will soon being doing the decals. Hassy has
renewed our parts for the season. Billy Lloyd has our engine ready and I also
bought another engine so we should be good and ready for 2009.
We intend to update our web site soon to celebrate
our 25th year. I’ll be working with Wayne Cornell to see what we can come up
with. I also will be updating our links or sponsors page. Along with many of
the sponsors that we had last year, I want to announce that we have picked up
Wendy’s Restaurants for the 2009 season. I will provide location information at
a later date, but definitely support your local Wendy’s. Also at a later date I
will announce all of our sponsors for 2009.
Our schedule will be released soon for we are
still waiting on area tracks to put out there schedule. It will be similar to
last years schedule with us running locally and then out of town some at some
money races.
Over the years I have experienced the loss of some
close racing friends, such as Tom Willoughby, Bill Shortridge and Mike “Bubba”
Whited. This past fall I lost 2 more friends. Jack Shutts, long time
flagman/scorer who has been friend/enemy (LOL, sorry Jack, remember the false
teeth story?) of the family for many years. Also, a real close friend, who just
couldn’t be beat as a friend/brother; Greg Schilling. Greg will be thought of
often when I am out on the track and I hope to obtain a lot of his abilities as
a driver. Greg was always in control and I hope he can help me with that this
year. This is kind of an early announcement, but Mike McPherson #22 has initiated
the Greg Schilling Memorial Race at Skyline Speedway on July 3rd. This will be
a special race to many people and Mike deserves a tremendous amount of credit
for pulling it off.
That’s all for now and I will let you all know how
things progress over the next month or so.
Remember! To make this work, support those that
support us!
Thanks again for your support, KJ
