feel good story

[whistlin six]

Went to Dallas this weekend to help crew on a pro mod car at the ADRL finals.
Unfortunatley the race car trailer caught fire en route to Dallas and completely destroyed everything in the trailer including the race car.

http://brewcitymuscle.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7201&stc=1&d=1288059792
http://brewcitymuscle.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7202&stc=1&d=1288059843

When the news got out, we got a call from Barklage family racing, another pro mod team who was not racing that weekend. They immediately offered to let us use their car for the race, only asking for fuel money to get their semi to Dallas.
At a moments notice they loaded their trailer and 12 hours later they showed up with this.

http://brewcitymuscle.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7203&stc=1&d=1288060375
http://brewcitymuscle.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7204&stc=1&d=1288060375
http://brewcitymuscle.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7205&stc=1&d=1288060439

That was one of the biggest and kindest gestures I've ever witnessed in my life, all to help out a team who lost everything in a fire.

It's good to know there are people like the Barklage family out there.
They are truly stand up and we couldn't possibly thank them enough.

[GHOSST]

Wow! Nice! Sorry for the loss man, but damn its good to see there are still some stand up Americans left in this country!

[michelle]

Wow that's awesome! What caused the fire?

[whistlin six]

The firefighters said the golf cart battery was likely to blame,
it was pretty apparent the fire started from the golf cart.

The weird thing is, the driver didn't know it was on fire until he pulled off in a rest stop. He was letting his dog pee and decided to check the trailer, make sure the car was still strapped tightly. The outside of the trailer is perfect, you would have no idea that everything inside is destroyed.

There was a full drum of alcohol near the fire too, thank God it didn't explode.
The drum was ballooned and swollen. He advised the firefighters of the alcohol but they went right in there anyway to get the fire put out.

[BR3W CITY]

damn that sucks...they let you guys borrow a sick looking car tho

[whistlin six]

damn that sucks...they let you guys borrow a sick looking car tho

yeah the car is sick looking for sure...:shades

[whistlin six]

just found this story about it
http://www.adrl.us/index.php/main/news/

[Ricky Bobby]

all i can say is :thumbsup

[Gregor]

thats a bitter sweet story none the less.

[GTSLOW]

Man what a bummer about the fire. Awesome for the others to step up like that. :thumbsup

[lordairgtar]

Too bad about the fire but dayum, what an awesome looking car you got loaned.