[Mike Pearson]

Its been an awesome 40 years wheeling my trusty old 1968 Camaro. Its taken a few different turns during its life. Like Jay said it started as a C/SM car around 1977-78 and after a few years I made it into a SS/J stick car with a 327 and 4 speed. In the mid 80s I put a 350 and a glide in it and ran SS/IA and then later SS/HA. Now I have a 327 back in the car and am running SS/IA again. I have a few guys that really helped me out in the beginning to get me going in the right direction. Jay Slane has always been there right beside me helping out with what ever needed to be done on the car. Now he has a car of his own and we still race together along with many other things. I have been very lucky to have Jay as my best friend for all of these years. Another was my mentor in the early days Phil Jones. Phil taught me most everything I know about a race car. He taught me how to build engines and how to weld and fabricate. Thanks to him I can do almost everything on my car except the machine work. Its not real fast but I have a lot of fun racing it. Hopefully this year it will treat me well and we can go some rounds and get a few win lights in our lane. See y'all at the races