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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

“You miss 100% of the shots you never take.”  I believe the great one Wayne Gretzky said that.  That quote has stuck with me since the inception of this project.  We took our shot. We put everything we had into it, and, in my eyes, we succeeded.  Are we walking away with one of those gaudy giant checks for $5M?

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I left my mind in 7’s trunk…

One of the hardest parts of this whole competition for me has been the events at MIS.  But it’s not because of the crazy mad rushes to get this or that buttoned up for inspections, or the insane level of stress that IMW is enduring.  It’s because I can’t be there to take on my fair share of those stresses

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Learning Curve…..

Being a part of this team since it’s inception, I can’t even begin to list the things I’ve learned. Hell, we’ve built a car from the ground up!  I’ve learned some pretty incredible things over the last 2+ years.  A pretty good percentage of it has been improvisation.  We created some needs for some pretty specific and important parts, and

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Ingenuity? Yeah, we got a bunch of that out in the wood shed.

Innovation. It’s a word usually associated with large companies. Corporations with hundreds, if not thousands, of employees. Scores of designers and engineers in research and development, and budgets for such things that would stagger the imagination.  We are but a handful of average Joes. Small in numbers, but innovative none the less.  Ours is a personal quest. We have accomplished

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An alternate point of view…

The following entry is authored by my lovely wife Dustie. Her continued support for my being a part of this endeavor is greatly appreciated and needed. The time is nearing and the pressure is on. I visit the shop and see worn faces, fiberglass-glue-covered bodies and one sexy “Seven” coming together. I’m not sure this is what I envisioned crunch

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Can’t

As I sit here, on the eve of innovation, and in the presence of inspiration, I am reminded of the one word that was most likely thrown in the face of inventors, and dreamers across the ages. CAN’T. I would be willing to bet that that single word was heard by most, if not all, of the greatest thinkers and

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