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JMF TAG

We are not here to impress the ignorant.

About Me

Just a self employed, car fixin', music playin', Swing dancing, 75% easy going kinda guy.

My Interests

Growing "The Alignment Guy" (West 80Th. and Dupont in Bloomington, 952-888-0800), going out to see bands, my '73 911T, The Honda CRX race car I bought last Nov., "Swing" dancing, playing guitar, bass & standup bass, "vintage" stuff, still looking for a church with the music of House Of Mercy, a pastor as good as Pastor Anderson at Wooddale, and a social climate that doesn't remind me of Jr. High. Maybe sort of like: http://www.hotrodchurch.com/

I'd like to meet:

Carol Smith (a race car engineer and author), Eddie Van Halen... I dunno. I'm a little stumped here. A nice single woman who would go dancing, and to church, and doesn't mind being around cars would be nice.______A web designer?: www.TheAlignmentGuy.com (and remember, you were warned :P)______Another question would be who are some of the important people that I *have* met. Bill Jongbloed, Greg Lorsung., Ron Olson, my F'n cool clients, many of the fine folks in the local music, Swingdance and road racing scenes...______FYI, Everybody in my modest friend list is someone that I actually know. Unless we actually know each other... please don't send a friend request, OK?

Music:

Rockabilly, Jump Blues, Big Band, Jazz, New Wave, Van Halen, old twangy Country, Country and "Black" Gospel...

Movies:

I rarely go to the movies, but, The World's Fastest Indian was great.

Television:

The History Channel, VHI Classics, Motor Racing, and The History Channel.

Books:

Auto racing technical books constitute 90% of my reading. Titles such as; The Unfair Advantage by Mark Donohue, Anything by Carol Smith, Race Car Engineering And Mechanics by Paul Van Valkenburgh... fun stuff... at least for me. A client just gave me a book about Von Dutch, VERY insightful...

Heroes:

The American Fighting Soldier. Thanks one and all.

My Blog

Where used cars come from...

While posting to www.MNAutoX.com I started musing over how I bought my current fleet, in order... 1980 Monza Spyder (2.5L), in 1998: "Mail order" using a broker in Oregon, from photos and his word onl...
Posted by JMF TAG on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:11:00 PST

Forss/Schabel Motorsport

With the limited space allowed for picture captions, I'll use this space to tell the story of that red & white CRX. I met Tom Schabel when I started autocrossing in the late 80's. Later he ...
Posted by JMF TAG on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:29:00 PST