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Originally Posted by Seahawk
I can’t find it, but I have an indelible image that was posted here of Grady and some other folks sitting outside a garage after, it seemed, working on a Porsche.
Just to be there was my thought.
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I had a mentor like Grady when I was first getting serious about Porsche‘s, around 1981 or 1982. He worked on just about all of the Porsches in Northwest Arkansas, as he didn’t trust the dealer mechanics to do anything right. I couldn’t count how many services we did in his garage. I was there seven days a week, after work, often late into the night wrenching on one thing or another. When we weren’t fixing something, we were off driving on the thousands of twisty little roads in that area.
He cut his teeth on Mopars and drag boats and then got hooked on Porsches. He owned 40 or 50 other cars along the way, he just liked to try things out, but Porsches were his first love. He had a lot of German in him, with all of the things that go with that. He had a wicked fast little 914-6GT replica that would hang with my modified 930 all the way through the first three gears. That’s the first three gears
in the 930, not the 914, so that was roughly 135 mph. His nephew ended up with the car, I think.
I have a lot of memories of those years, all of them good, some of them hilarious. Guys like that just don’t exist anymore.