{"id":83,"date":"2008-02-11T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joewelder.com\/2008\/02\/11\/83\/"},"modified":"2013-08-15T10:08:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T17:08:52","slug":"83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.arc-zone.com\/joewelder\/2008\/02\/11\/83\/","title":{"rendered":"From Sprint Cars to Tungsten Grinders and back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arc-zone.com\/images\/sharpie_homepage_pic.jpg\" title=\"Sharpie Tungsten Grinder\" alt=\"Sharpie Tungsten Grinder\" align=\"right\" height=\"132\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" \/>I got a call the other day from a prospect who was researching the benefits of using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arc-zone.com\/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=15\" target=\"new\">tungsten grinder<\/a> verses a wheel grinder. He came across our site, read our tech articles and then called.<\/p>\n<p>He said &#8220;We&#8217;re a couple of farmers that have been trying to do <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arc-zone.com\/index.php?main_page=page&amp;id=22&amp;chapter=0\" target=\"new\">TIG welding<\/a> for a couple years and have never gotten good at it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A friend told them about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arc-zone.com\" target=\"new\">Arc-Zone.com<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arc-zone.com\/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=15_165\" target=\"new\">Sharpie Tungsten Grinder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He told me they had a little fabshop and a small dirt track in southern Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s the name of the track?&#8221; I asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You probably never heard of it&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tristatespeedway.com\/\" target=\"new\">TriState Speedway<\/a>,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you I think I heard his jaw drop when I said, &#8220;In Haubstadt Indiana! That&#8217;s where we won our first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldofoutlaws.com\/sprint\/history.aspx\" target=\"new\">World of Outlaw Main Event in 1979<\/a>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I will never forget that night.  We broke a front torsion bar mount in the heat race, and I had to Arc Weld it back on using a portable gas drive Stick Welder.  We ran good that night and beat the pants off of Steve Kinser, Doug Wolfgang, Sammy Swindell, Rick Ferkel, Shane Carson, Bobby Allen and more!<\/p>\n<p>He was blown away and began to talk about how he helped Billy Vukovich for several years with his Champ Dirt cars, and asked if I was related to AJ Watson.  I said no, but ironically we both lived in Glendale CA., of course AJ lived there before my time as he worked for the famous car builder <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Kurtis\" target=\"new\">Frank Kurtis from Kurtis Kraft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We had a great conversation and I really enjoyed it.  I&#8217;m amazed how many people I&#8217;ve met, and continue to meet through my racing past.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/joewelder\/wp-content\/jim8-copy.jpg\" alt=\"jim8-copy.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a call the other day from a prospect who was researching the benefits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,10,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-joe-welder","category-memory-lane","category-motorsports","category-socal-life","entry","fw-tab-6 fw-tabr-4"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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