[thebooger13]

I really appreciate all the comments and input you guys (and/or gals) have been making. I guess I never really felt like I had anything too special with my grandparents. But now that I only have my one grandfather left, it kind of puts things into perspective, makes me wish I could go back and spend more time with the rest of them.

I got some good news, I found another '51 to do my 4x4 build with. It's been sitting out on a piece of land not far from town. Now I just have to come up with the money to get it. It looks pretty rusty compared to the truck I have now but I think I can make it work. I think I'll ask my grandpa the next time I visit if he likes the idea of the '51 4x4 build. A friend of mine started up an annual mud run with his brothers and close friends, and I started in on it building my own junkyard beater truck. Most any time I was working on it at my grandpa's shop he'd come over to see my progress and give me ideas on how to get the motor to run better, or how to fit the tractor tires that I had been eyeing up for it onto the truck. Grandpa even came to a few events too, for being an 80 something year old man, he sure enjoied watching all the homebuilt rigs throwing mud in the pits. Hell, I think he had a bigger smile than me after my second place run that I made in the 2wd class the one year.

Here is a pic of that homebuilt monstrocity known as The Mud Camper.