Quote Originally Posted by Ray View Post
Yep, met him when he came up from the Seal Beach area to Madera for a wiring harness I wasn’t going to use. Traded a set of his door panels for it. Wish I could remember his name��
You're thinking of Ariel Ayubo who built his Mk1 outside his apartment in the wooden shipping container (this was in the days before Stewart Transport). As he tells it as soon as the paint was dry he jumped in and drove it from Southern California to New York City...and then back! "The man in the box car" as it came to be know was sold to James Creasey who continues to autocross it very seriously. It's just one of those great early FFR stories like the one day build, the John Phillips/Ralph Button/John Hannaford "Stooges Across America Tour", Dino's infamous group build weekend and John's Phoenix build after his #1152 self immolated... It was a different community back then; as great as it is now I kind of miss that sometimes.

Jeff