Jimbo old-school

Back in 89, class-1/ 1600 single seat V/W


Then we went to this...........




Then after I tore all that up. I built this street-legal bug from what was left of the single-seaters. It was a race-car really.........


P/C beach about 96, 94 PJS Thunder-Jet 550, it was a total aftermarket Kawasaki JS-550 stand-up which I raced.



Fire-Hose'in





1985 Honda ATC250R- 91 mph, raced it too.............got lots of trophies on this one.





Another former love of mine.............I was probably, no kidding, 20k into this stuff before I quit.







Another love............This WAS my 1989 Chris-Craft Stinger, very limited production, this boat came with a G.M. 350 that had been converted to a G.M 454 BB. It was waaaayyyy too fast for a 21 ft. boat. I had had it up to 89 before chickining out due to chine-walking. At a poker-run on my home lake, Lake Martin, in Alabama,It threw me out when it hull-hooked on another boats wake at about 70 mph. I did not have the kill-switch hooked to me. It preceded to run by-itself for 2 miles and impailed itself on a large pine-tree some 400 ft up the bank. RIP STINGER.........the only picture I have of it. Yes ,I had the proper protection on when I got chunked, 100 mph jacket, it saved my life.

lots of toys and money there but loads of fun also which is what its all about

Jimbo,

I knew you were nuts . I will have a buddy with us at windrock next weekend that will be riding an 86 250r Three wheeler.

Nice toys pate........

Never flew a radio controled Airplane.
But i can fly a real one.....

That is the Pate I know.

This was all before many gallons of Ezra.......

Chris.... :(lmao:

Well done pate! A life worth remembering is a plus in my book!

ChrisC wrote:

Nice toys pate........

Never flew a radio controled Airplane.
But i can fly a real one.....

Chris, I used to fly a real one too...... 1974 Cessna 172 Skylane. I got in about 112 hrs in this one.

Pate what havent you done

Nice plane Pate. the one i use to fly was a 77 piper cub.

Chris.....

shawnley1222 wrote:

Pate what havent you done

Shawn , you are a young man. alot of us had lives
long before Rhino's. :D

in 70's i races simi factory for Yamaha
in 125 , 250 , and 500 open class.
after that. i raced go carts.
in the late 80's i was national champion
RC racer. started with electric. then moved to
Gas power off road trucks... then i raced
4 wheelers. and during all this. I drag raced for 25 years.
All while running my own Automotive service center.
and my own metal fab shop.
and now i play with Rhino's.....

You got to live a Sporting life.....

I now found my calling. I love this SXS mess.
and all the people. I plan on doing this from
now on.....

I may be only 21 but have done alot also was on a bass fishing team since i was about 3 yrs old and won alot of tournments got plenty of trophies to prove it, then move pn and was very very good at baseball until my right knee got shattered when i was 12 then started on 4wheeler racing scene but proved to expensive for us so had to give up quick then on to basketball until the left knee disloacted, then on to a yfz450 and a gsxr1000 sold 450 after a jump gone bad landed me in the hosiptal planty of crashes before that and traded the 1000 for the rhino because I was gonna end up in a coffin or jail so opted out of those 2 options there are plenty of other little stories in between but thats the quick overview

Thats the way you got to live.....
I use to have a yamaha V-Max i use to ride a wheely
all the way down the street at 70 MPH . my dad said i was going to get killed.
if i did not calm my ass down. and as i said. I use to do crazy stuff. on them
4 wheelers. climbing hills i had no bissiness trying to climb in the first place.
Now i am getting older. and i like to think a little wiser. :D when i fall off them
dam things. it hurts more than it did 25 years ago. So now i opt for something with
a steering wheel. that is more comfortable. hints why i have the rhino.
So now i can have fun with a lot let bruses. I love this stuff....

I dont understand kids today wanting to set and play video games
all day. i was 30 years old till i ever learn to turn a computer on. and back then
it was only at work. people need to get out and have fun. and not set around.
I have friends that have 15 and 16 yo kids. that set and play videos all day on
saturday and set in the house. i could never do that. i hardly can sit still long enough
to watch a move all the way through now. i got to go to the garage and build
something.....

hell i am still like that i prefer to be outside :hijacked: ya i slowed down on the street bike deal but about to put a 460 motor on the gf 400 ex well her dad will probably since its at their house i cant wait to rip it up on that bad boy all chromed out side case should be fun and pull harder then a 450 since its bored and all the goodies done to it on the inside...i got a PS2 and i think its gets played every 2 or 3 months when my sister turns it on i hadnt played it in well over a year until about 2 weeks ago with her

"i got to go to the garage and build
something..... "

Same here Chris. The wife says I need a bed up there........

I've got tons of old M/X pics, but my mom's got all of them, she's making my boy some kind of scrap-book out of them. This is a pic of my last race on a bike. 2002
TCCRA in Texas, I'm #636, #631 jumped the start and was D/Q'd ,so in essence I did get the holeshot......... Over 40 expert

That was the good old days. that brings back alot of old memorys.
I remember i raced is the first super cross race in the atlanta stadium
in 77. Bob Hannah won that year.

I remember that TV news guy was going to jump over the goal post... :(lmao:
that was a joke. :D

i stared in on the flat track sprint car racing with my friend but them cars are a pin in the at 6' 5" 230lbs so i let him have at it hes only like 5' something of course it built for his general size but it was a fun race i came in 1st of 4 the best he did was 2nd made him mad and gave me something to rub in his face

I remember we use to go flat tracking in penton ALA in 79. it was killer.
we used our moto cross bikes. for me it was a 79 YZ 250. we would change the tires
to flat track tires. and race saturday night. on the flat track in the horse barn.
and sunday put out nobbies back on and race Moto cross
out side . Dam that shit was fun....

i seen some ppl on bikes on the flat track and haha ya right not me i did it in the sprint car them borrowed a set of flat track tires from a guy and did a few adjustments so i could do better on the 450 that was lots of fun slide slide slide the whole corner it was smiling and laughing the whole time

Yes in flat track you got to cock the bike up and get into a power
slid before the turn. or you will high side. and thats ugly at 80 MPH.....

ya well its easy top throw my weight and give it a little help :D

shawnley1222 wrote:

ya well its easy top throw my weight and give it a little help :D

Ya , i could too now at 240 . back then i was 170 lean and mean.
I just had to much good liveing ( And Cheese burgers ) the last 25 years.... :(lmao:

Chris...

Pate how did you end up with a little rhino with all that power in your past, you need to drop a LS-7 in that thing so you feel at home, this goes for me too. I need the power!!!

Never got into racing mostly due to not having any money, but I got close to finishing college and bought my first wheeler. After many hunting seasons without one, I decided that shit was for the birds. Now, I am more into riding than the hunting. I just wish I still lived in WV. If I did, I would ride every damn weekend. Maybe one of these days I will get lucky and get a place of my own out in the country where I can ride the Rhino around the property and stuff like that.

well except fot the college part