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Who am I? I'm not really sure. I guess it all started a long time ago (1960, to be exact) in a little town called Wareham, Mass. My dad owned a Ford dealership, and one of my earliest memories was being taken to the dealership when I was four years old to be shown something very special, the new 1964 Mustang. “Big deal,” my four-year-old mind thought, “it is just a car.” I don't remember much else about being four years old, so this must have been important.
Soon after, I would dedicate my entire life to Mustangs. By the time I was 15, I would buy and fix up a 1967 Mustang Fastback. Later I fixed up 1967 Mustang Coupe and then a 1965 Fastback. By 1978, I was in the part-time business of buying and selling Mustang parts.
My life really changed in 1979. First, upon returning from my first year of college, I managed to find a real rough 1966 Shelby GT 350H. Later that fall, I met Margie, my wife and partner here at GRM.
After restoring the Shelby and convincing Margie to marry me, I went to my first autocross in 1982. I finished second to a 240Z. Two years later, when I graduated from college, I started autocrossing seriously-of all cars, in a 240Z.
Shortly thereafter, I decided that all other car magazines sucked, because none of them told me anything about fixing up the old cars that I could afford. So being 24 and the cockiest person on the planet, I decided I could start my own magazine.
Naturally, we had no earthly idea what we were doing and no money to do it right. Thankfully our readers and advertisers helped us along (and still are) until we figured it out a little better. The rest is history.