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Posted by awsm66 (93SE) on July 12, 2002 at 23:15:50:
When I was working in Birmingham a co-worker was best friends with John and I got to meet him a few times and he even got me into a couple NHRA events free using his pass. Anyway he owned a turbo shop in B'ham and he rebuilt turbos and did some custom installs too. The friend of mine had John put a turbo in his Pasao(I think thats spelled right it is that little toyota) and I think they got a 12.89 at Steel out of it. He was riding dirt bikes a few years ago with the friend I mentioned and a few others and he lost controll and had a stick go thru his lungs (and some other problems too) and died shortly after. He was a real nice guy and knew his turbos very well...he had a couple of the trans ams that had the buick turbo in them and he also had a toyota truck that he did a custom turbo install on. I think his wife sold the turbo shop shortly therafter to pay bills and such but I havent talked to my friend in a while to see how all of that went. I just thought I would see if any of you guys remember him or anything. btw the last I heard from a mutual friend my friend that had the turbo paseo still has it but it smokes real bad now but he doesnt want to mess with it because of the time he and John put in it.
I was going through my file cabinet and found this old picture of John after he had won his last championship.
here is the poster I have