[RKDinOKC]

1st year in college I went to a local OKC university, and ran around beer drinking with a friend. He seemed to always have lots of different recreation drugs available, but we preferred just drinking beer. Everyone called him Flash and he drove what looked like a very nice Z28, except it was a full blown tube framed race car that was contructed to look so much like a regular Z28 you could not tell the difference if they were parked side by side.

2nd year I went to OSU and lost touch with my beer drinking buddy, didn't think much of it as people will lose touch going away to school.

A few years later was hanging out with one of my college age nephews that was very close to getting into the wrong crowd, I was there to help make sure he didn't get too close. When to party with my nephew after he got off work and the group had to wait for some guy to drop of some drugs. To my surprie what showed up for the drop was this very familiar brown Z28 with custom license plate "Flash"!!!

Yep, it was my drinking buddy. Talked to him a while and found he had been dealing since before I knew him, and had been taking orders and making drops while we were driving around drinking. We would stop someplace for a few minutes and go on. Rarely more the 2 or 3 stops a night so I never thought anything about it. We also often stopped to check to see if people I knew were around and/or wanted to go partying with us. It was before cell phones.

Found Flash was also one of the biggest drug traffickers to bring pot into OKC. His Z29 was purpose built for it and setup to outrun ANYTHING. The main reason we lost touch is while I was in college he was in jail. The sheriff in one of the small towns he had paid off turned him in. He said it was not a big deal because he basically had made enough money that it was just a minor annoyance and only 6 months in a minimum security prison.

Only once while we were out cruising around did he "open up" the Z with me in the car. It was after I helped him put a new speedo in that included exhaust and cylinder head temp gauges on the same gauge face. It was wicked scary fast and I was driving a 11 second plymouth muscle car at the time.

Being friends and a former running buddy with "The Flash" really helped my leverage when guiding my nephew to realize you can have fun without going too far and ruining your life.