Wayne Brown🇺🇸

@HeyRAbbot I knew of him. When Wayne Menaker was working on Strolls cars is when I did the engine for him

@WayneBrown56 Do you know Dave Castelano? He had one or two of Lawrence's cars in his shop for a bit His shop was first right beside ours, then across the parking lot next to Shane Lewis and Ed Zabinski's shop

I snagged this picture off of Reddit, I will post the link below. This is Ed Davies 250 GTO. This is the car that I fabricated the roll cage in so he could race the Colorado Grand in it Ed owned the building our race shop was in. Ed was also a customer.... Cont

@HeyRAbbot He owns it.

@WayneBrown56 That's Lawrence's car? I didn't know he owned that one. Awesome hiding the MSD. 🤣

@HeyRAbbot So the Lawerence Stroll 512 M Penske Ferrari behind Ed I did the engine in that as well. We hid a MSD unit inside the Magnetti Marelli spark box.

These are only a handful of what he owned. Ed and I worked together for ten years or so. He was also one of the nicest and down-to-earth people I have ever known.

@HeyRAbbot Wow that’s a blast from the past. Yes we did them in NY @ MWE. A very cool engine to do

the BBLM. This picture is from after Ed sold it. I believe @WayneBrown56 built the motors for us on this car too, didn't you? Or was it just the two Spices?

@SimeoneMuseum @Badnewz80 XJR-7 Chassis 001

@Badnewz80 That is not the 917.

@RodneyChilders4 Happy Birthday

Thank you!! 👊🏼

@HeyRAbbot @atflorio I absolutely agree

@atflorio Those Jags, were, and are still, some of the coolest freaking GTP's that ever existed. When I first saw them as the launched of the exit of turn 2 headed down Biscayne Blvd at the Miami Grand Prix, my heart leaped out of my chest. Absolute beast of a car.

The Group 44 Jags were legendary. My first exposure to IMSA (as a really little kid!) was those cars

@ACCUSmayor @MotorsportsHOF Here is its sister car today. Chassis 1 is in my phone. I have built the engine for that car the last 25 years

Meanwhile tonight at the “Heroes of Horsepower” event at the @MotorsportsHOF . Among other things, this year’s class of inductees received their special plaques. Tomorrow night is the main Induction Ceremony.

@HeyRAbbot And the 308 Ferrari powered Spice of Ed Davies in the background

You won't often hear me say this, but this was a cool cat. Gizmo. Inspecting the Argo WSC-001 we were building for Stan Wattles

@sinWhoFramed After seeing your posts I needed to drag it out

@WayneBrown56 will like this one. I am not exactly sure what year, either 97 or 98, it was after the season. Petite Leman’s was in the rearview mirror, and we were doing a Targa 66 event at Roebling Road in Pooler, GA. (near Savannah). (Cont)

@sinWhoFramed Tom Knapp at the right front of the car!

@sinWhoFramed @lrp Look at Sean Creech. Wow how time flies by

@sinWhoFramed @lrp Yes sir I did.

@sinWhoFramed A great car. Being on the pole @LRP was the highlight of it. I built the engines for Rob Dyson when I was at Marcovicci Wenz Engineering in Long Island NY. The car in red I believe is owned by the owner of Ferrari of Atlanta

@atflorio Wonder if Jeff will have any input during the weekend. Agree on tire situation

@WayneBrown56 sounds promising learning curve is steep & red tires are always a wild card (especially on a temp circuit) though

REALLY pulling for Braun here. We all know he can turn nothing into something. Let's hope they can get a good setup on the car and let him shine. racer.com/2024/03/06/202…

@marshallpruett That looks to be a Comprent sticker on it. 🤔

Storage cleaning day. Found this old Tiga GTP-L dinosaur. Bought it but never used it. What an amazing chord

@RyanEversley So sorry for your loss

One of the worst days of my life. Love you guys, gonna need a minute.

@marshallpruett Its not a job if you love it. #youarethebestatwhatyoudo

Yeah, it's 9:07 p.m. on a Tuesday in late November and I still have another 45 minutes of writing to do, but I swear I have the best job in the world. May that feeling never change.