wanted to share a bit more,first pic is my race car from 1980-81..the second photo is me on the left..yes im HUGE
,didnt used to be..the man on the left is Colonel C.E.Bud Anderson,USAF (ret),he ended World War two with 16 and a quarter kills,he flew the Famous "Old Crow" P-51's (a P-51C and then P-51D)he also flew F-105D's in Vietnam.he is sitting on my folks couch,i had purchased a special edition P-51C diecast of Old Crow and he was nice enough to come to the house to autograph it for me,,he signed his name on the D-Day stripes and then added the "16-1/4 kills" on the next stripe down,he then turned to me,said "Davey (people get a kick out of calling a 475 pound man "Davey")you now have the one and only model with this signature,its unique to your plane and yours only.pretty cool....
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BTW,you see the ice waters...it was 109F that day.....with a relitive humidity of 5%