10/04/2018
Well between having pneumonia for over 3 years and 4 weeks and after getting over it and getting my
Unlimited race license back, I woke
Up 5 weeks later and was over half
Blind in my left eye!!!!!! Over half of my Retina had detached !!!!! I was operated on it by Dr King at Georgia
Eye and I see better now than I did
Before it happened. Soooooo——
I am good to go now. Big Fun Pro
Formula Car Racing is planning on
Racing either Daytona or Sebring
In a couple of months. The car is ready and so am I. I am 68 now and
Still think 35 years old and feel 35,
I started racing at 17 years old and my first race car was a A-Altered
Dragster built from a 1932 A Modle Roadster and the Buick engine was
Where you would normally sit and I sat in the trunk with the rear end
Between my legs, but it had 4 splash steel plates between my
Valuables and the rear end believe me. You drove it like a rail or funny car foot on the gas to the floor using the clutch to not smoke the tires off the line and to try to keep it straight. Having brakes was useless
So we had a huge Parachute to stop it and trust me when you pulled the
Shut to open when it did it would almost break your neck. I would have love to have had a Hans Device then because it was estimated that
When it caught air your head was pulled forward at an instant 5 g’s.
At that time I was playing guitar on the road so I didn’t get to race it as
Much as I would have liked so we had Bill Vann drive it for our team.
That is about all for now, I have had an unbelievable life, I was on the road playing with everyone that was someone which I loved because I hated playing with one group except for one and I started with them at 16. Yea that’s when I left home and played Beach Music with
Mike Bryant and the Diamonds! Beach music was fun to play but that was in 1965 and I was 16 making mote money than both my parents together and I stayed on the road until I was 59 years old,
Not playing music but when I was Burnt out of bands I went to the business world and ended up being the President of a Danish Company
In the USA ! And I didn’t have a high school education somehow I just understood good business practices and did very well and my wife and I owned several companies thru the years but I never quit racing, I started Road Racing GT-5
Porches and raced them for about
25 years and I raced a spec Miata
During that time as well. We had a
Yacht as well after we bought a home on one of the Islands outside
Of Savannah and one day I sold all of my toys and bought the Formula
Car. My wife wanted to know if I had lost my mind racing the most dangerous and deadly race cars there are OPEN WHEEL race cars at
Some of the highest speeds racing and I just said I wanted to go
FASTER !!!!!!!! She just walked away
Saying I was nuts. I may be but road racing has been my passion since I
Started in the Porches and they weren’t slow trust me! Peace and happiness to all and to all until the next Time. timm day holder
