I was born and grew up in New Orleans, and just before 1980 while I was still in high school, went to Laplace Dragway and saw a FED in person, and was intrigued and impressed. That was at the LAST DRAG RACE at that track. Some few years later I had a '66 Chevelle that I ran at State Capital and Gulfport, later I moved to Houston for work, and ran at Eastex Dragstrip, until it closed, and then at what is now Royal Purple Raceway in Baytown. A buddy turned me on to a FED that was offered for sale, and I traded my Chevelle and trailer for the FED, and its trailer.