Quote Originally Posted by Ken Thurm View Post
Thanks for all the well wishes. They thought at first he was going to lose a arm, but doesn't seem to be the case now. He is doing much better.
Pat, it has a bolt in funny car cage he puts in when he would race it. I first thought that it might be a good idea if he would of had it in but changed my mind thinking about it, he may of had more serious head trauma getting rattled around in it with out a helmet on.
Ken
That sounds really good that his arm can be saved. Both of my arms were messed up in a work injury but at least I have them. I hope he continues to improve.

It may get to the point that our old cars will have to have a roll cage if we are going to drive them with today’s traffic on long runs. Accidents are going to happen. When our first grandchild was in his car seat in the back we were on a 4 lane highway keeping up with traffic, all of a sudden a car in front makes a left turn and traffic had to brake to keep from having a big pile up. The 18 wheel truck behind us was coming up on us, his tires were smoking and my wife was driving. I told her to get off the road fast! Lucky she didn't ask why because the trucker smoked the tires right past us. He threw up his hand thanking us for getting out of the way. This was a late model car with all of the safety features but it would not have held up to the truck if we hadn’t got out of the way. Things can happen so fast but the old cars are going to have to have some kind of protection if we are going to drive them. The newer cars have antilock brakes, side impact bags, and front bags. It just really makes you think.

Richard