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yeah Irish but not if you have wet paint on your pants. Very good answers!
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"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Issac Newton Posts: 3528 | From: Warner Robins, GA | Registered: Oct 2004
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Some years back while living in south Florida I got a call at 11pm from a guy whose name was Peewee Griffin, he said he was in need of a pinstriper and was going to win Daytona that weekend. I said I would be there in the morning and he said " if I wanted it done in the morning I would have called you in the morning " I laughed and he said this isn't a joke. I got dressed grabbed my tools and was at his shop within the hour. He wanted a triple line on his race car #72 and I gave him a price of $150. figuring 50 a line, he said he wouldn't come out of his house for $150. so I said 450. winds up I did a triple line freehand stripe across the top and down the sides for $450 and got a $300 tip and car #72 won Daytona that weekend with Buddie Baker driving.
Moral of the story is that money comes to those who make money come to them.
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In the immortal words of Robin Williams; if the first of the fifth was UA, then the MA wouldn't have to SA, thereby forcing the SN to CM the whole of the BA...
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Jon, do you know who Peewee Griffin is? I could be wrong on the # because that night was a little fuzzy to me. Peewee was an owner and there was car # 72 and #28 among other ones and I believe it was in 1980. Buddy baker won the 500 in that year and set a record that is still held today unless it was broken in the past year or two. Those days have been fuzzy but the money was good.
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great story joey ..and agrees with ya also I enjoy signwriting and I don't care what time or day be glad to work I just lucky to be alive and be glad use a brush and paint
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