The Stickman
01-04-2010, 10:11 AM
Hello I just thought I would introduce myself. I go by The Stickman everywhere I go. I am talk and skinny although not like I used to be. I am more into road racing but not with your normal vehicles. I started out with an S-10 that I made into quite the cornering machine. Then I got into Fiero's but again I couldn't follow the normal path. I had to be the 4 cylinder guy. Some of this may have started with my first car which was a 74 nova with a straight six which I loved. Made some good power by adding an exhaust, intake and carb. Atleast I thought so. Anyway I was into Fiero's and loved the Iron Duke 4 cylinder but loved the Super Duty version better. At one point I had a ton of SD-4 parts. Now I just have one complete engine a spare block and misc other small parts. I only had one SD-4 that ran and that was the one that came in My IMSA Bodied Fiero. See I suffer from Migraines pretty much daily to the point I can't work. They started long ago when I was running my truck. I was doing track events with it and wanted to go to the next step of real racing and that is where the Fiero came in. But that was also when the migraines started to get worse. So it was at a point where I would work Monday thru Friday trying to fight off the migraines to get thru the week and when the weekend would roll around the migraines would simply take over. So no time to work on them and no time to un them really so I just would do car shows with them when I could. Then the migraines got so bad I lost my job. I ended up being out of work and filing for disability but that takes time. Which means the wife had to really work her butt off to keep us afloat. It was a very tough time. But finally I won my case and now atleast I don't feel like a huge burden on my wife. So with my settlement check we decided to get me a car to use for daily transport. But I couldn't have just any old car. We found a 1984 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser. Satin black, dark tinted windows, and red rally wheels with baby moon hubcaps. I great looking car that if I had an attack I could lay down and crash in. Well it didn't take long for this car to become a project. My wife encourages me to build it as it is a kind of therapy. It get's me out of the house If I am feeling well either to work on it or go places with it. Now I want to do road course track events with it providing my head co-operates. But we also bought the wife an Olds Wagon. In part to pay her back for all she has done for me. So now we are a 2 Olds Wagon family. I am looking to do special things with each, starting with Fuel injecting mine. I want to put EFI on hers but want to use a dual quad intake with dual TB's so I can mount her scoop on them. I would alos like to do twin turbo's on my car. Thanx for having me.