Chrysler Racers Please Read,

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by bill dedman

I called Mr. Cahill and asked if I might drop by and visit for a while this afternoon and was rewarded by an enthusiastic "YES!!!" reply.

I spent an hour with this amazing fellow who treated me with the most hospitable attitude imaginable. At 94 years of age, he is sharp as a tack and his memory for Mopar memorabila is better than mine! I'm 72, and he's old enough to be my father....

Talking with him for an hour was a pure delight!

He opened up a drawer in a bedisde table and hauled out an 8"-thick stack of "Get Well" cards that he'd received from people on this board, mainly, and seemed flattered beyond belief. He said, "This is the most impressive and pleasantly-surprising outpouring of affection and attention that I have EVER received, in my life."

He was bowled over....

Thanks, guys, for all the cards! It made his day, no, week, for sure! If he'd ever been depresssed, he sure didn't show it!!!

I showed him photos of my Vortech supercharged Valiant V-8, and my turbocharged slant 6 project and he didn't fall asleep, so that was flattering to me. LOL!

He seemed most interested in the article I took him that I had written in Super Stock about Charlie Malyuke's 383/400 Hemi that ended up setting the Pro Stock MPH record in John Hagen's Plymouth Arrow.

I left all that reading material with him to while away the hours until his arms are healed.

How often do you get to meet a personal hero, an icon, and look them in the eye, and say, "Thanks?"

I'm a lucky guy...

Yes you are a lucky guy.......Its things like this that makes the racing "Family" as great as it is even when we disagree on things. Thank you for taking the time to visit with such an icon.

[bill dedman]

It was MY PLEASURE, Terry.... a very humbling experience!