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Your brush with a famous person.


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Author: 3-Wide   Date: 10/26/2022 5:48:42 PM    Show Orig. Msg (this window) Or  In New Window

When I was involved with teaching Automotive Technology back in the 90's, I was asked to be a judge a few times at the Javit's Center in NY for the Skills USA Auto Tech Troubleshooting competition for Vo-Tech students. They always had a celebrity judge to join us, and one year the celebrity judge was actor Craig T. Nelson who had a show called "Coach" at the time.  Another year the celebrity judge was Greg Biffle.   It was a good setting to kind of hang out with them and also be working together with them as they also were part of the judging process and kind of relied on us for the rules/proceedures.

Also back in the 90's, I got to talk to Johnny Rutherford one year at the SEMA show in Las Vegas as I happened to stop by the Good Guys Car Club table/booth and Johnny came over and started talking to me as I guess it looked like I was kind of manning the booth.  Real nice guy.

Had a Business Meeting with Hall of Famer Art Monk (Washington Redskins as they were called then) when I worked with Canon (early 2000's) and our Washington DC rep had set up a meeting with Art as the marketing company that he was running (after retiring from football) was looking to replace their imaging equipment.  Again, good guy... but not sure if he bought our copiers!

More recently, I got to meet Joe Klecko (NJ Jets - soon to be Hall of Famer) when at Kevin's repair shop (On Track Auto) in Matawan NJ.  That was pretty cool.  I learned that Joe had spent a lot of time with Hal Needham/Skoal Bandit Race Team.

Speaking of Automotive Technology (top paragraph), I was teaching the NJ Emissions Control Program (it was called ETEP, but don't remember what the letters stood for...) at the Audi facility on Cranbury Road near Monroe (the course had to do with doing emission repairs as part of the NJ Inspection program for private garages.)  It was at least 3 nights... maybe 6?....  Freddy Dmuchowski (who owned Country Club Sunoco up by Bridgewater at the time) was one of my students....  Not sure if Fred remembers the class, but I sure do.  Seemed like I should have been the one sitting and Fred should have been standing up there telling us racing stories!  Now that's as famous of a person you could ever meet in my world!  Great guy, but I think you guys already knew that....

Thanks for the thread Lenny -




 
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Your brush with a famous person. Lenny Swider 10/26/2022 10:40:54 AM