WHAT DOES EVERYONE DO???????????

[badbee]

after reading the battery post did not realize that fastfairmont worked for s&w.  just some winter boredom post but just curious,  what do we do and where do we do it to make money to go racing.  you never know if we could support each other or if ever got jammed up somewhere who we could call or buy services from..

for example:

ralph seran   aka  mr.green/badbee
ralphs auto service/towing and recovery
auto repair and towing services
850 s. delsea dr.
clayton nj 08312
duties: running it into the ground as my father says(doesnt get the racing thing)
manager of towing operations
856 881 6769 shop    856 207 1517 cell phone
ya never know when you need a tow in south jersey   

[Matt Jewell]

Matt Jewell-Sales Manager at Maryland Performance Center-You know the deal-sales,tech support,Project Planning, cylinder head flowing,carb rebuilding and distributor recurving, and I'm sure some other things. Located in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Then my part time gig that doesn't pay (but meet alot of good people), Maryland Street Racing Association President (until someone more qualified steps up).

Who's next?

[1SlowFormula]

John Pszenyczniak - Systems Analyst for Accenture Technology Solutions, consulting on technical solutions for applications at a Large Pharma company in DE. I am the technical team lead on all projects writen using the .NET framework for the client. In my spare time I run and update websites for a few small businesses and friends.

However my passion is with cars, I would rather be working on cars, dealing with racing, and making my own parts, but I chose this path to pay the bills. Maybe one day it will. 

Eventually I would like to start a small side business, hopefully more, where I make a few of my own parts to sell to others in need, but that is a long way off I'm afraid...

[pokadot1]

Cliff Sebring  Parts Advisor  Providence Chrysler Dodge Jeep 1 717 284 3200 ext 132  For your best deals

[BitterSweetAMX]

Ann Erb
E&E Metal Fab
We are a metal fabrication shop that builds to customers specs.
www.e-emetalfab.com
Lebanon, PA
717-228-3727
Purchasing and Inventory Control

[REDGAR]

Edgar Perez
Professional Poster on Forms
Racer
Webmaster for several web sites
Corvette Challenge Coordinator, not only the President but a client
In my spare time when not doing the "primary" jobs, I am an Oracle Applications Financials Consultant working for IBM..."Ideating"

[badbee]

see this is working already,  my wife just caught me cruising the erb's website for there fabrication business.  and of course is was checking out the sunrooms.  should i say more.  i see this coming sometime in the future.  love the firepits.

had no clue what you guys did.  cool stuff

[85SALEEN]

Norm Henson

Mechanic, Mostly diesel stuff but we will fix anything
Fleet Service Inc
Linthicum Md
410-636-6600

And According to my wife I am a General Pain In The A@# !

[Darin Stine]

Darin Stine
Master Jaguar Technician at The Great Britains Jaguar in Willow Grove, PA.  Using my University of Delaware degree to the fullest! 

Pays the bills for now.  Do not want to continue to turn wrenches for a living!

[ratmans66]

Tony Manizza

 Employed full time at Jim Wild Well Drilling. I do many different tasks at my job, mainly drilling water wells for residential housing but we do some commercial drilling, Also installing well pumps, running an excavator, driving a lowboy and dump trailer, repairing and maintaining all our equipment. And when things are slow and the boss isn't around I work on the racecar. shhh don't tell him! Actually he tells me to work on it sometimes. My boss really takes care of me. Lets me use the shop to do whatever I want.
                                               

                                                 GET WILD FOR WATER!

My part time job is at Al Valk's Garage. There I just do after hour stuff. Mostly heavy duty towing/recovery the last few months. But I also can do truck road service and light duty towing. Whatever they need me to do, I can do it. They also let me use there shop to work on my own stuff.

[Brian C]

Hey, Brian Correll here. I'm a Maintenance Mechanic for Zeks Compressed Air Solutions in West Chester, PA. We build dessicant and refrigerated air dryers. I go around and fix the equipment when it breaks, build all kinds of stuff around the shop like safety guards, fixtures for CNC mills, install new equipment, perform PM's, do mods to anything as needed. I run a mill, a lathe and Mig & Tig welders although I'm not real experienced yet at these, I have a great teacher there. I also do electrical upgrades to the facility, you name it I do it. Tom Salvo works there, too. He'll be running in 10.5 this year. I fix what he breaks  Just kidding Tom! I live 1.5 miles from work. I say this because it feels good to! I used to work in a little town called Coopersburg near Allentown. I used to commute 52 miles one way. I did this for 4 years. I Don't Miss that Commute!!! I worked for a small semiconductor company where we remanufactured SemiTool wafer processing equipment. Again, you name it, I did it from stripping down the equipment to the bare frame to rebuilding it to customer specs, testing it, and travelling around the world to install & service it. I was in the semiconductor industry for 14 years. I met my good friend Kurt Butler in this industry about 12 years ago. We both worked together in the mid 90's for a few years.

[beaker300]

Hey lee sebring here I am a head porter at ram racing heads! I also announce for Cecil County Dragway. Announce for the N/A Shootout and now I am the main announcer for Fun Ford Weekends! I also do sports broadcasting for colleges!

[shadow41246]

 grorge hicks 3rd,  shadow41246, spent 31 1/2 yrs @ us steel/ fairless works [ various jobs] been working on cars for yrs. mainly my own .  currentlv working a warehouse job .  shadow     

[68CudaB1]

Controller/Financial Manager for 20+ years at a Govt funded non profit in Reading, PA providing services for the disabled..............and sell Electronic Accessories online................soon to be just selling electronic accessories online and enjoying semi-retirement building race cars 

[sst1010]

Keith Paylor here do electrical for comercial and residental.Go to school part-time and along with my wife raise a very well mannered young man.

[skunkworkx]

Industrial Maintenance  Mechanic...
Weld,burn,repair,fab,replace,design,demo,plumbing,light electrical,ect.,ect.

We make wallboard (sheetrock)

And while boss was on vacation.... homemade Caltracs 

[Brian C]

....and what a fine announcing job you do Lee!

Hey Skunkworkx, sounds like you and I have similar jobs!

[fastfairmont]

Lee Grinnell, retired after 40 years as a steamfitter in the construction field, now work at S&W Race Cars
three nights a week

[BConrey]

Brian Conrey from Bensalem Pa.  To some this might be odd, but strangely enough I am sixth grade teacher.  This alone is not at all enough income to support my expensive habit.  I took a little extra time to complete my college education, during this time I started my own small hardscaping bussiness on the side.  I also had short stints working for some professional raceteams which provided me with some very valuable hands on knowledge, specifically with engines.  To this day my small bussiness is what finances my spring and summer racing.  I look at it as unexpected income and use most of this hard earned money to dump into the sport.  Being a teacher and having off all summer, while still getting paid on top of what I earn with patio and driveway installs is a blessing and the only way possible for me to do what I enjoy!

[grosspeed2k4]

Kent Gross you can find me during the day jumping off of a big brown truck.  Thats right I am the guy losing all your parts to put on my ride LOL!

[Starkravingmad]

Matt Jewell you might know Jerry Jackman of Jackman Custom Cycles.  I think his shop is right next to yours. 

I work for BP Solar (We make Solar Panels) as a Silicon Casting Process Engineer.  I make rocks for a living, high purity silicon rocks. Bill Perkins works here too in the Quality Department.

 The ingots we make are used to make wafers much like the business Brian C. used to work in!

Yes I know its ironic that I work for a Green Industry Company and love to burn un-replacible fossil fuels.  Thats what the parent company is for!

Doug Stark

[Richard Maitre]

Rich Maitre, Cylinder Head Porter, Machinist for the last 22 years. Opened RAM Racing in May 2000, money sucks, boss is a d!(&, and its a struggle everyday but dont know how to do anything else. Not sure which is better head porter or head waiter but either way I have been training for a higher paying position....check this out........."You want fries with that"?

Rich

[defbob]

Lead Limousine Technician for Mohegan Sun Casino.  21 years old

[Tom Salvo]

Hey whats up I'm Tom Salvo and as Brian mentioned I also work at Zeks. I weld all the components that make up the dececant dryers. Its a pretty demanding job. Everything has to be leak free and is tested up to 400 pounds and is checked with nitrogen. So if you have a leak your doing the job again, and thats not fun.

[McCloud Motorsport]

I'm a manufacturing engineer for a dairy fluid milk plant. Basically in a nut shell I do all the trades of a machinist,millwright,electrician,steamfitter, and an operating engineer. When your dealing with a perishable product time isn't on your side. So you have to be able to alot of things in house. I do all of the above, but my main things are stainless steel sanitary pipe welding and industrial refrigeration.

[Matt Jewell]

Marc, I had no idea! It's amazing how many different jobs are out there today. So much for Policeman, Fireman, Doctor, etc.

[10secBu]

I am currently an under-employed Mr. Mom. I quit my job almost 8 years ago to keep from having to put our kids in day care. We have two girls with the youngest starting kindergarten in the fall.

I help a friend out at his body shop 1 1/2 days a week. I do mostly restoration stuff specializing in rust repair, panel replacement, custom patch panel fabrication, general fabrication, welding, parts cleanup and painting, mockup, assembly, general mechanical work, etc.

Prior to having kids I worked 6 years doing high end car audio and electronic (early 90's) then moved on (for another 6 years) to doing residential and commercial security system installs as well as CCTV, card access, etc.

Looking forward to finding something this fall to allow me to get a few more hours, but still keep a somewhat flexible schedule so i can get the girls on and off the school bus each day. Yea, I know, pretty tough to come by such a job.

[1SlowFormula]

I am currently an under-employed Mr. Mom. I quit my job almost 8 years ago to keep from having to put our kids in day care. We have two girls with the youngest starting kindergarten in the fall.

I help a friend out at his body shop 1 1/2 days a week. I do mostly restoration stuff specializing in rust repair, panel replacement, custom patch panel fabrication, general fabrication, welding, parts cleanup and painting, mockup, assembly, general mechanical work, etc.

Prior to having kids I worked 6 years doing high end car audio and electronic (early 90's) then moved on (for another 6 years) to doing residential and commercial security system installs as well as CCTV, card access, etc.

Looking forward to finding something this fall to allow me to get a few more hours, but still keep a somewhat flexible schedule so i can get the girls on and off the school bus each day. Yea, I know, pretty tough to come by such a job.

wow I might have to see if your interested in helping me with my 67 mustang resoration project when ever I start having money again...

it need a few of the things you said above   http://www.1slowformula.com/mustang

[shadow41246]

 slow, you may want to check out CJ PONY PARTS, when you're ready to put it together. they have a catalog, and are located in pa, in or around  Harrisburg   www,cjponyparts.com   shadow   

[1SlowFormula]

slow, you may want to check out CJ PONY PARTS, when you're ready to put it together. they have a catalog, and are located in pa, in or around  Harrisburg   www,cjponyparts.com   shadow   

yeah I have catalogs from them and many other classic mustang parts places, the issue is with skill, I was trying to teach myself how to weld and got a 110V mig welder that could do the job but it keeps having issues, right now the speed control is broken and it keep pushing the wire out soo fast it does nothing but make a molten pile of spaghetti, so if there are guys on here that know this stuff asking for help is better then screwing up a nice car...

[DJ]

Darryl Jewell - I'm a Construction Executive for one of the largest fire protection contractors in the Mid-atlantice region.  Basically in charge of offices in Frederick, MD and Miami, FL.  Long hours and high pressure deadlines, but not a bad job overall.  Flying to Miami twice a month gets kind of old sometimes though.  Also work as an Adjunct Professor at Montgomery College teaching Construction management (gives me the extra $$$ to play with cars).  Worked many years ago as a HVAC mechanic (still carry my MD HVAC journeymans license).  You know the spiel; jack of all trades but master of none!


.....and big brother of Matt Jewell (even though he's the bigger of the two! )

[Karl Owens]

I am a ASE certified Master Automotive HD truck technician with 20 years automotive dealership experience with tours of duty at Subaru (2 years), Chrysler/Plymouth/Jeep(15 years), Ford (5 years) with 4 years as a parts salesman at Forward Motion (previously owned and founded by Cliff Sebring) and now have moved on to bigger and better things such as Tech Director for RAM Racing (3 years) and my day job is a road service technician for Industrial Lift Trucks based out of New Castle Delaware repairing and maintaining Clark, Daewoo, Komatsu, Nissan and Toyota lift trucks.  Anyone with forklift issues feel free to contact me.

[jack gaydosh]

I am a diag tech for a family owned auto shop and build pontiac race and stock engines for my race shop gaydosh performance! thanks jack gaydosh

[1SlowFormula]

I am a ASE certified Master Automotive HD truck technician with 20 years automotive dealership experience with tours of duty at Subaru (2 years), Chrysler/Plymouth/Jeep(15 years), Ford (5 years) with 4 years as a parts salesman at Forward Motion (previously owned and founded by Cliff Sebring) and now have moved on to bigger and better things such as Tech Director for RAM Racing (3 years) and my day job is a road service technician for Industrial Lift Trucks based out of New Castle Delaware repairing and maintaining Clark, Daewoo, Komatsu, Nissan and Toyota lift trucks.  Anyone with forklift issues feel free to contact me.

funny, one of my buddies and technically part of my pit crew at the Cecil events Greg Gold worked for Industrial lift and a road service tech a few years back...

[McCloud Motorsport]

Marc, I had no idea! It's amazing how many different jobs are out there today. So much for Policeman, Fireman, Doctor, etc.

LOL.. The plant I work at got bought three years ago and I got that alot with the new people. Sitting in project meeting and being 10 to 15 years younger than everybody else I guess. They didn't know I had a head start, my dad does the same thing and I started learning this trade early on.

In high school I was a volunteer fireman and was going to turn professional, I enjoyed it but it wasn't for me. It very hard seeing people in their worst moment, or just lost everything they have worked for!  I still get that rush when a engine goes by though!