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HillBilly Deluxe

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Race cars. Snowboard. Drink beer. Skateboard (oldschool) concreate bowls are my fav. Listen to old school punk, rockablilly, and psychobilly. Like to buy antique and semi antique persian rugs. Bidjar and Koliaei are my favorite styles.

My Interests

snowboarding, skateboarding, sushi, Bottle conditioned beer, dirt track racing, working on my race car, driving my jeep up mountain roads to see wild flowers and wildlife, ethnic foods.

I'd like to meet:

New friends with common interests. People to go snowboarding, skateboarding with. Someone who likes working on race cars and drinking good beer. People who are into psychobilly and old punk. People who are into politics. Someone that can fix the wiring in my old truck.

Music:

Rev Ho, Guana Batz, Psychobilly of all kinds, Old School punk stuff, Oi, Bluegrass, Ramones, Black Flag, Charged GBH, Beastie Boys, etc.

Movies:

The Blues Brothers(Best movie ever), Happy Gilmore, Ghost Dog, SLC Punk, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Television:

HGTV, M.A.S.H., 24, Daily Show, Colbert Report, King of the Hill, Not much else worth watching.

Books:

Hunter S. Thompson "Fear and loathing in las vegas", Jim Hightower "Thieves in high places", A confederacy of dunces

Heroes:

My Dad, My Wife(she's been through hell and came out swinging).

My Blog

1st race of the season

Well, finally got the car out of the garage on back onto the track.  Race was on Sat the 31st at Thunder Mountain Speedway. Has been hot and windy so track was a little on the dry side but not to...
Posted by HillBilly Deluxe on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:25:00 PST

updates 5/17/08

House is close to finished. They are putting in tile and getting ready to do the flooring. Hope to move in by July. Racing is non-existant right now. Car is together and running but have a very thin s...
Posted by HillBilly Deluxe on Sat, 17 May 2008 12:14:00 PST

Changes in stuff for this winter

Lots going on here. New house is under construction. It is half framed now. Waiting for the upstairs floor joists. Race car is sitting idle right now. Bought new control arms, ball joints, spindle, br...
Posted by HillBilly Deluxe on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:34:00 PST

Wild West Modified Tour race at TMS

Well my 2nd attemp at a WWMT race was not as succesful as the first. Track was way rough on the 1st night at Thunder Mountain Speedway. They had to grade the track about 5 times that night. I was runn...
Posted by HillBilly Deluxe on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:23:00 PST

Race Update 9/12/07

So far have raced 2 times since last blog. Don't remember the date but it was about 3 weeks ago at TMS. Had a pretty lousy day. Track was very slick, dusty and rough. Car was not working at all. Was p...
Posted by HillBilly Deluxe on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:35:00 PST

Race Update 8/19/07

Finally got to race again after battling a wicked cold this past week. Tried some new suspension configurations. Raced at Thunder Mountain Speedway on Sat 8/18. Had a bad and good night. Track was nic...
Posted by HillBilly Deluxe on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:35:00 PST

Why I love (and hate) racing

Racing has been a passion of mine since I was a young child. I was brought up watching it in NC. I was lucky enough to be able to watch racing legends speed around my local short tracks. Watching thes...
Posted by HillBilly Deluxe on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:23:00 PST

Racing Update

Raced this past weekend 7/28. Track was smooth but slick and dry. Both water trucks broke. 19-20 modifieds this weekend. Got 2nd in the trophy dash. Got no hot laps. Missed my heat race. Started last ...
Posted by HillBilly Deluxe on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:00:00 PST

Racing Update

June 14: Race TMS: Don't remember where I finished. Think I stunk up the track and finished 11th after going a lap down. June 30: Race TMS: Finished 4th. Started 7th in feature. No cautions. Went gree...
Posted by HillBilly Deluxe on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:07:00 PST

Update on 07 season

Not sure where I left of but as of 7/2/07 I have ran 4 races total this season. Had a great time in Aztec, NM for the Wild West Modified Tour race. Made the A-main out of 50 cars. Ended up 22nd runnin...
Posted by HillBilly Deluxe on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:34:00 PST