Machines,” because Bob Senz, who founded it, was getting ready to pull back some. So I went to a meeting. I had been on a number of boards and had some good organizational skills so within a year I was sitting at the head of the table running things. CL: That’s what happens when you go to a meeting. BP: I know, I should never go to a meeting! CL: What did you do professionally? BP: Well, my education is in mechanical engineering. I went pretty much right into sales out of college. I started a number of small manufacturing companies selling different kinds of products. Everything from testing equipment for nuclear power plants to solar energy systems to water-well products like pumps and tanks.
fiberglass Model T body and put it together. CL: Why all-wheel drive? BP: It hooks the horsepower to the ground. This thing has 400 horspower.
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CL: So why aren’t all race cars all-wheel drive? BP: Mostly because of the rules. KP: Rallies are mostly four-wheel drive. It’s just depending on the competition. BP: The other thing about this all-wheel drive thing is that I did so well in the series that they outlawed it in 2014. They said no more all-wheel drive. They are going to let us drive it but we can’t compete.
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CL: I noticed the pelican hood ornament. BP: Yeah. All of my vehicles have a pelican hood ornament.
CL: Obviously, those have technical components to them so maybe your vocation and avocation came together in some ways. BP: Right. And being an independent manufacturing rep gave me the time to do stuff like this.
CL: Did you construct this thing right here? BP: (He walks into the garage and points at the cement floor.) You can see on the ground there are some marks. What I did was I put the fiberglass body on the floor and I drew around it. Then I put it away and built the frame to fit inside the marks.
CL: So what are we looking at in your driveway? BP: First of all, let me tell you how this came about. I like to go to car shows and two years ago September a hundred of us drove to Indianapolis for a big car show there. And they have what they call autocross racing. You go out one at a time in a big parking lot and you drive through cones in a prescribed course and whoever goes fastest gets the bragging rights. And so I was watching the guys autocrossing and I thought, “That looks like a lot of fun.” I used to do that in the ’60s in a Porsche I had and I was pretty good at it then. So I thought instead of just sitting around looking at cars in these car shows, I’ll build one and compete. So I thought, “What will it take for a 75-year-old man to be competitive with these 20-year-olds in their Mustangs and Cameros and stuff. I thought it’s got to be lightweight, all-wheel drive and have a lot of horsepower. So I bought a wrecked Subaru, WRX STI, which is their high-performance version, and I made the frame and I bought a
CL: Wow. BP: Then I just popped the body down on the frame. CL: Now, are you a married man, Bob? BP: Very married. CL: And she lets all this stuff go on in her home? BP: (He points to the roof of the garage, which is underneath his home.) Anything down below this level here is mine. She has one little cabinet where she keeps some leftover pots. The rest is mine. CL: How much help have you been with this project, Kenny? KP: Well, I helped with the wiring. Cutting the body, cutting the fiberglass.
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