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Feel free to contact me any time
People ask me all the time, "Why the hell are you building
up a Windstar?" It all comes from a beautiful late morning
motorcycle ride to "Nowhere, Arizona"
and a trip to have "a beer" at “The Jackass Inn” and return home to
our wife's. Upon the way to get "a beer" a small issue
happened while down shifting from around 130 mph and around 25 mph something in either
the shaft drive of my 1984 Honda Nighthawk or the gear box seemed to suddenly
"lock-up" and the rear wheel began so 'wheel hop' and the last
thing I recall while on the bike was looking back at the rear wheel.
When this happened, it caused me lose control of the bike. My helmet then
made a very hard contact with a guard rail in which I was slowing down to
negotiate. My helmet cracked yet as any high quality helmet does, it
protected the "egg" inside the helmet. Did I get up and shake
it off, "No, I immediately that this time I'd screwed up and screwed up
very good!" I couldn't feel my arms and legs, though they felt
like they were straight up in the air. I'd asked a friend of mine to
get the rocks out from under my neck, there were none there. So I asked
him to remove my helmet and he said, "I'd better not take it
off..." Those were the words that made me realize that my neck was
broken, I'd finally done it after having way too many close calls over the
prior four to five tears. Everything from diving into swimming pool's
in college to tubing down snow covered mountains, and four wheeling in way's
that only Ford trucks are able to take in and still allow you to drive home
towing a Jeep, Chevy or Dog, I mean Dodge!
This is why I'm building the Windstar that’ll run like no other
in Arizona!
Eventually I’ll put a little a SUPERCHARGED emblem on the rear hatch where it
currently say, Windstar but I doubt they’ll be anything else other that a
sand blasted Ford emblem on the tinted rear window. I’d like to keep it
a sleeper or have it painted “Yield Sign Yellow”, otherwise it’ll stay teal
or black. Decisions, decisions…
Fell free to contact me with any questions at: bruce@windstar-sc.com, I’ll answer any
and all questions that I can. If you ride a bike, wear a full face helmet as
I was because being in a wheelchair is only as hard as you make it on
yourself and those around you. Life goes on and there’s no need to let
the weed’s grow up around you, I’m living proof that if you have a desire to
do something, you can do so, just don’t lie around and make others
feel sorry for you and do your best not to fall into a ‘pity party’ as nobody
but you will attend!
Feel free to visit my much need to be updated SCI web sight at www.bruceswebsite.com, it may shine
a little more light on just how “warped my brain is”!
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