20 years

racerdave600 wrote: Congrats David. I have a mental image of what working there would be like. I'm not sure I'd really want to know the truth since it would probably ruin it for me!

Basically JG and I sit around all day talking about cars.

1988RedT2 wrote: Dang! You guys are OLD!

No duh.

Congratulations David.

Wow, David, has it really been that long? Serious, serious congratulations. It just seems like a little while ago that you visited Vic Jacko and me at our campsite at Pike's Peak when you were first starting out with GRM. Both you and the magazine have come a long way, and it's been a great journey. Props from one of the longtime gang!!

Jim Pettengill

Congrats David !!

In reply to 1988RedT2, I just clicked over 42 years with the same company; it's AMAZING how fast that happens.

Here's to 20 more.

Dan

Congrats! I think I have been reading just a little bit longer than that... wonder if my mom threw out my early 90's mags.

On that note, I'm just about at "20" with my company... I hope your pension is as good as mine!

Now I feel old. I moved away before David joined you guys, but I remember JG as a summer intern, who never left

Wow. Just realized you were still a fresh face when I started reading, back in the late 90's, when the Ro-Spit had monthly contributions.

parker wrote: Now I feel old. I moved away before David joined you guys, but I remember JG as a summer intern, who never left

Hey Jeff! Good hearing from you. Time flies, huh? I checked out your website, gorgeous stuff (and I want to go on your photo tour to Brazil!!).

Margie

Marjorie Suddard wrote: Hey Jeff! Good hearing from you. Time flies, huh? I checked out your website, gorgeous stuff (and I want to go on your photo tour to Brazil!!). Margie

Hmm, no car content. I don't think you can justify that much time away

You could go on a peace mission to teach Brazilians about autocross.

With a good enough accountant, that's charity work.

Awesome hearing from you Jeff! I'd have posted sooner but I've been trapped on your site for the last hour. Some really amazing work there man.

And thanks everyone for the kind words for David. Some of you may not know but there's GRM historical figures that predate even him and me on the board. Jim Pettengill was contributing in the first year, and Jerry Stein was part of the extended family all the way back to the first issue.

So I was 8 when you guys met and probably on my way to Disneyworld, How exactly does that make you feel?

Lol congrats on a great career so far!!!

I moved to Daytona to start working here from the St. Pete area in May of 1990. My folks packed their truck, and I drove my 1985 MR2, which was only five years old at the time. I had just bought my first set of Goodyear Eagle GS-CS tires that spring, to replace the first generation BFG Comp T/A Rs I had worn out. Joe Montana was nearing the end of his tenure with the 49ers, but he still managed to beat that upstart Elway in the Superbowl by 55-10. A couple weeks prior to my moving, ABC launched a new show called Twin Peaks that I'd have to buy just enough cable to watch, as I was hooked by episode 2.

David moved down in spring of 1994—some college buddies on spring break helped him move. He moved into my old apartment because i was just getting ready to close on a new house. But my old landlord was still a dick, so he wouldn't just let the deposit ride. He also wanted penalty money for me braking the lease, even though I plugged someone right in. What a dick.

David drove a 1992 Nissan Sentra SE-R. Jus two years old and still the scourge of D Stock. Bak in Atlanta, where David had just come from, Dallas had beat the Buffalo Bills for one of their many consecutive Superbowl losses. Also, we were excited that when David got there we'd have no less than FOUR 300hp cars parked in my yard.

Indeed, there was an LT1 Corvette, a Twin Turbo 3000GT, a Twin Turbo 300ZX and a Twin Turbo Supra. All of them at or slightly above 300hp. Times were golden.

Today I drove an electric car to meet David and Sarah in a hybrid car at the space foodateria. Actually a local taco place. We talked about pretty much the same stuff we talked about back in the day: how dumb the generation just younger than us is. If they every figure it out, we're doomed.

jg

More GRM history:

When I moved down here, I was running Yokohama A008s, still the hot tire at the time. My SE-R also wore a SuperTrapp. I was so hardcore/poor that my SE-R didn't have a radio, either. Apparently you could get one without a radio.

And yes, JG's old landlord/my old landlord was a dick.

Jim Pettengill wrote: Wow, David, has it really been that long? Serious, serious congratulations. It just seems like a little while ago that you visited Vic Jacko and me at our campsite at Pike's Peak when you were first starting out with GRM. Both you and the magazine have come a long way, and it's been a great journey. Props from one of the longtime gang!! Jim Pettengill

Thanks, Jim. Yep, I remember that trip. Mrs. Editor and I camped for the race. After the race, we made it back to our tent just as the skies opened.

I used to visit Daytona Beach right around the time David and JG arrived. I had no idea the magazine existed, even though I was into autox at that time. I even drove my beige Rabbit from Ontario to Daytona one time. No bumpers, too loud exhaust, and Kameii air dam all to terrorize the locals.

Congrats to all of you at the best magazine IN THE WORLD.

i still have all those old grms where jg looks about 12 years old. and i remember dave arriving as well. back the i was autocrossing my alfa spider and building my first x1/9. i probably had about 6 alfas at the time. i wish i had kept a few of them.

i was a little behind, but one of the first road tests of the new miata i read was written by jg.

Thanks to another GRM'er I've been working through a stack of about 50+ old issues. I never go wanting for reading material on my lunch break. ~2yr subscriber, wishing I had found you guys a decade or so ago, but at least thanks to aussiesmg I'm getting caught up!

The important question is this..

Who, at the shindig. Got blind stinking drunk, photocopied their no no parts, and put a lampshade on their head to provide entertainment for those not as inebriated?? It ain't a party until one of those things happen!!

At first read of thread title I truly expected to see 'parole' mentioned.

Congrats David

Wow, 20 years...that's great. Congrats, David!