Passing the reins to our Grandson

[bigjake]

Here we are at the MCACN show!

[Xplantdad]

Awesome!!

[RPOLS3]

We had the car all cleaned up Friday morning and about 30 minutes before we were going to leave it started raining (I know......we should have left earlier but it didn't happen) We decided to wait it out and take our chances. We waited about 3 hours and decided to go and try and beat the traffic before dark knowing we'd probably get wet - made it to within 10 miles before the roads were wet - oh well



Staging lanes - more rain



Jacob won a Shining Star award

[RPOLS3]

Car all cleaned up again - original Owner and current Owner. My brother had new Dykstra Motorsports shirts made for the event.

[olredalert]

----BIG congrats to Jacob and the whole Dykstra family. What a weekend you all had. Bet that lift will come in handy! And,,,a special thanks to Jake seniors wonderful wife, Birdie, for keeping me well fed during the show. Best chocolate chip cookies anywhere, and terrific sandwiches......Bill S

[napa68]

We could say he had an "uplifting" time!

[RPOLS3]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: napa68</div><div class="ubbcode-body">We could say he had an &quot;uplifting&quot; time! </div></div>

HA! Yes

Jacob won the Triton 4 post lift.

Funny story.......when we were leaving the building Saturday night we ran into Bob Ashton and as we were finishing up our conversation he looked at Jacob and said make sure you register for the lift give away in the lobby (Thanks Bob!). As he was signing up for that I ran into Dave (A12pilot) and had a nice conversation. On Sunday afternoon Dan Vasic told us to swing by the Awards ceremony - which we did but ended up leaving after about 10 minutes as we did not enter the car for any judging and he had some homework he needed to complete back at the car. The guy with the car next to ours came back and said they did the drawing for the lift and picked Jacob's name! Lucky kid!

[dykstra]

Thanks Bill. It was great seeing you. By the way, Jan's car looked gorgeous as usual!!



Regards,
Dave

[SmallHurst]

Good looking tires!!! Great to see this beautiful car! Lucky young man!

[RPOLS3]

So - for those that did not know - Jacob won the Titan lift they were giving away to a youngster at the MCACN show this year (Thanks Bob Ashton for the heads up on our way out Saturday evening). Since we drove the car there we had no way to get the disassembled lift home with us. The ceilings in our garage are a bit too low to use the lift so on the ride home from the show Jacob decided that we should install it at Grandpa Jake's house. Grandpa Jake also happened to have a neighbor with a box truck large enough to fit the parts and pieces of the lift in - and by 11 AM Monday morning everything was back in Dad's garage waiting to be assembled. We arranged for the garage door tracks to be changed and a new operator installed to clear the lift and since we all had some time off for the holidays we met there last week and put it all together.

Dad had everything laid out when we got there - doing some strategizing on our game plan



A &quot;before&quot; picture



In about 45 minutes we were able to get the framework completed





Measuring to make sure the cables are all adjusted properly



The 409 will reside here most of the time - maybe we can park the Turbo Regal underneath next winter.





Done except the installation of the concrete anchors - we wanted to verify we had all the clearances we needed on all 4 sides before we anchored it down.



It took about 4 hours for the 4 of use to assemble the lift - none of us had ever done one before.

Thank you Titan and MCACN!