Adam Torres and Steve Strupp discuss racing and PRI.
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Show Notes:
ECTA Motorsports is the first sanctioning body for paved Land Speed Racing.
In this episode, Adam Torres interviewed Steve Strupp, President at ECTA Motorsports. Explore racing, the “200 mph Club,” and the upcoming book Steve will be releasing with Mission Matters and Trackside Systems.
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About Steve Strupp
Steve is a multi-faceted lifelong racer, from dirt track racing, to the Pike’s Peak Hill Climb, to land speed and road rally racing in the US and internationally. He is a member of numerous land speed racing 200 MPH clubs, including the prestigious Bonneville 200 MPH Club, around the world and has helped others achieve the same goal and more.
About ECTA Motorsports
The ECTA began with a dream to bring land speed racing to the eastern United States and be able to race more than just a time or two a year at the Bonneville Salt Flats.
A runway was secured in Maxton, North Carolina and concrete mile racing was born in the mid 1990’s. After the loss of the use of the Maxton facility, and then its successor in Wilmington, Ohio the ECTA no longer had a place to race.
In 2018 the ECTA found a new home with a pristine runway in Blytheville, Arkansas and new ownership with Steve and CJ Strupp. The Strupp’s brought with them a wealth of racing experience and a new vision that would strengthen and grow the ECTA.
Part of that vision to grow the ECTA has been by improving its media outreach and expanding the organization to bring the positive, fun, family friendly experience of racing with the ECTA to a broader group of racing and automotive enthusiasts. They work diligently to continually improve the organization, and the quality of every racing event. They bring with them integrity, excitement, and a goal of helping every city that hosts the ECTA reap the benefits of bringing racing to their community.
Full Unedited Transcript
Hey, I’d like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres, and I’m proud to announce we’re at Indianapolis, Indiana at PRI, the biggest motorsports event in the country. And my guest today is Steve Stroup, who I’m proud to announce is going to be an author in our soon to be released.
Mission Matters Motorsports Volume One Edition. So, pumped about that. And first off, hey Steve, I just want to say, welcome to the show. Well, thank you. I really appreciate being here. Alright Steve, so one of my goals here, one of my missions is really to give our audience a unique perspective into not just PRI, but the racing business and the racing world in general.
So first off, just to get us kicked off, how did you get started in racing and the racing world? As a young man, I got started racing literally with Pintos on dirt tracks. That’s, that is where it started. We’ve been very blessed to, we went from various forms of crew chief and business supporting and working on dirt track cars and doing all that stuff.
We’ve been very blessed as crew chief. I think every, every aspect we’ve been in at some point in what it’s like this year. And as time evolved over the years. I did a lot of general mechanic work and various things. A customer decided to buy a land speed car from Montevideo on eBay. It was a very interesting journey.
I went and inspected it and was told get it home. We’ve got 45 days to update it. We’re going. My question is can I have a rule book? And we were, no.
I like to tell people. I just remember it was a broad bank. When we were able to do that, it actually took 60 days or something like that. But, for me, it was my first trip ever to Bonneville. For a customer, it was his first trip ever. Now, we bought it, proven use, but it’s been sitting for four years. And, our first time ever there, went to learn, get licensed, and was actually able to put them over in the juvenile hall for the first time in years of the Sackville assault.
And, as he puts it, he got inoculated with the disease right there. From there, we built two more R’s picked up some other clientele, obviously, doing what we were doing. Put that down on the list with Jack Robbins. He had more than 200 clubs in the land of history. Wow. Which included Australia, USA. Blast.
Very, very blessed to have great customers. Wow. And then he decided, another eBay story. He calls me in Bonneville and tells me, Hey, get you a passport. You’re going to pick up this Mustang somewhere in Oklahoma. They’re bringing it to you. You’re going to switch trailers. I’ll meet you in Laredo. And we’re going to go with this convoy into Mexico and they run the seven day route program.
You know what I’m saying? Hey, I’m, yeah, I’m still, oh, we’ve been checking the car out. We’ve tested it. It’s great. Yeah, okay, whatever. It was a very, very stressful first week. The event is called the Walkway of America. It’s a seven day, it’s over 2, 000 miles. It closes at, it is a 50. It’s challenging. You will run the gamut of every emotion you’ve performed.
It will run the gamut of every emotion that you’ve had in your life. You will run every motion that you make, from your highest high to your lowest low, from three, to the driver, to the navigator, and end up being my boss. You will cycle through that high to low seven times a day. You don’t want to fight, cry, feel sorry, constantly.
It’s challenging. But that’s how things evolve. We’ve been supporting and fueling cars for that for 15 years, and still do. So we built three more Bonneville cars. One of Mr. Roberts Camaros is the production car body. Sixty nine Camaro. I think I’ve got the records. It’s 249. Just under 250. And, there’s nothing about a 69 Camaro body that can take a lot of brute force and a lot of luck.
Now, And then from that landscape background, the various people we know, ECTA is formally the East Coast Highway Association. I mean, owner and visitor. If the previous owners of my wife and I, would be the perfect candidates to take over, they would like to get out to visit and maybe help. And that’s sort of how this evolved the new ECTA to Arkansas.
Very north east corner of Arkansas, about 50 miles north of Arkansas. So, the term Arkansas, I’ll tell you why. Because that’s a broad, broad area. You can stand in the racetrack and see what kind of desert you’re in. And this will be this year we bought it in 2018. And it’s a dream. We are one of the premier landscape events in the country.
You can run. For our last event, we had motorcycles, a farm tractor, an original Crosley, 78 miles long. Wow. Which he now owns. At our event, he can set a record of three distances. A Crosley S3. Three world records. alL the way up to We had one of the drag and drop gentlemen for the Crosley stand before his Camaro.
He bumped a track record and another gentleman bumped it again. Bumped 250 plus miles, so it’s, it’s the game. A lot of, a lot of, a lot of the very unique stuff like downhill, the one off, the innovative, a lot of small motorcycle stuff all the way up to 250 miles an hour. Turbo, high reducive, wide open, clean air.
The majority of my last five years have been devoted to refining the timing system and You know, we’re here in Trackside’s booth, and that’s been part of our journey. We’ve found somebody that can work with us because of the uniqueness of our industry. You know, there’s things that make it challenging for some companies, and it helps people understand things more than anything.
There are over 6, 000 motorcycles, and over 6, 000 cars. That many different kinds. They’re really broken up by the kind of type of vehicle it needs. Sizing motor, you know, it’s all nitrous, you know, it’s all motor, it’s blown, numbers, cylinders. Well, that’s cool, I’ll be out there just trying to make this list.
I mean, like, this is everything. And, you know, it ended somewhere a little over 6, 000. And, you get to be on the cutting edge of a lot of technology. Like, a few years ago, we had great, you know, we had some odds. Fuel categories for business. As a gentleman, I started a company, it’s a liquid propane conversion to production vehicles.
So we didn’t have propane as a fuel. Okay? 6, 001. Yeah, yeah, here we go. Here’s another one. But it’s, the innovation leading it to power is what makes it work. So cool. The other segment of my life is being a rally car. Rallies in Mexico and Newfoundland and places like that. And those can vary from a 1950 van, a 1965 Mustang, to a 2016 van.
Yeah. It’s just, it’s not a fun job. It has tons of challenges.
A group of us are service guys. We’ve been here for years now. We’ve got to aggregate everything. How many years have you been in the U. S.? We have driven over 60, 000 miles. Wow. We’ve been 200 miles from Guam. You know, we’ve been South America. We’ve been South America. We’ve got to see what we can do. I’ve got just a whole lot of the world like this.
With shitcars, one clients and shit, semis, racecars, everything goes together. Took all that out today. Softbox with the directions on. Go to this point, turn off the page load. You’ve seen 110 miles, have you? Yeah. When they say off the paved road, we’re talking about desert roads. You’re from the west coast, you know what the roads are like.
That’s the north board, just braided out and drawn on the sides. 110 miles out is 79, 000 miles. Oh, that was not set up for, you know, basically a mask on all right, you’re looking dry. I said, like, 80 inches off the ground. This is not going to be a good idea today. But Grace and I are going to make it happen.
We’re going to be able to, we’re going to invite people over. And we’re not announcing out of here. Wow. So, so Steve, a lot of entrepreneurs, executives, business owners, so people, various businesses, whether it’s. in the race car business or otherwise that watch this program. And I just have to ask you, I mean, your story’s amazing.
First off, like the types of experiences that you’ve had, the places you’ve been, but as an entrepreneur, what keeps you in the game of Motorday? This, I could say, Motorday Challenge. I have, my wife’s exactly what it was for me. A lot of customers. I want to keep both of them. I’m like, why? He looks at the others and says, You all say you can’t afford it, we won’t say we can’t.
He’s like, I’m going to ship both of them. You’ve got to quit. I’m like, no. The experience.
It’s been a very interesting time. Going from being a guy with a creeper to a guy that’s supposed to be, you know, having my shirt on and staying out front. It’s been quite a journey. I look back at the lessons I had in my life that I have no idea what I was learning. But I was fortunate in the dirt track world.
These gentlemen weren’t friends of mine, so I got to watch them. One of them was Earl Moulton, who built the Gold Orchard. Tony Stewart. Another man was Bob Miller, who built the Dirt Track series for the World Mountain. That’s how the World Mountain was made. Neither one of these gentlemen are active right now.
Earl’s the first man to pay a million dollars for a garage. You know just in everything. The two big things that always stuck out to me I had to be one. I was. What we used to say was, Everybody in the world knows who Scott was. He was the owner of the heart. I remember being in the door with him.
That’s what we were doing. Scott raised me. And those girls were mine. So they let him pull off and go through the mud twice. Right in the heart. They said, It took that much time for Earl to hold him. To make it from the other end of the cliff to down. There’s a whole year ago. How many times you don’t let him try?
I will never forget. Smaller. 60 cars. Like a dirt bike model is. What happened? I’m four pounds light. Let me go through. You know, he told a story. I remember him slapping, tapping his hand on the sheet metal. And you know, this is a superstar. This is a rock star. Thanks for coming, Scott. See you next time. And he turned and walked away.
You know, that’s, that don’t bend. Rules don’t change. And the same with Bob Miller. His maximum width was almost two inches narrower than than the other stars. And the guys were all crying when they filmed it, you know, terrible. We got to pin the bodies in, beat the noses in, you know, get us the other two inches.
He’s sitting in this old wore out Dodge van, you know, like 300, 000 miles away. You know, the old pop top Dodge van. That was his office. You know, if it hit, it was totality. You know, those boys, you know, they told me they could be 110 It doesn’t matter how wide I threw it, I was talking to him, he’ll just push it, he’ll just hold his own.
He’s got a point. You know, I’m a great chief, I build them, whatever you give me, I’m going to try to squeeze it. I’m going to try to squeeze it, just a little part. And not knowing, not knowing what I was supposed to be learning from back there. You’ve got to look back on those things and what’s helped us and it’s caused a few hard feelings.
But, you know, there’s people challenging them out of fieldwork safety. Why does it got to be that way? It’s just, it’s the modern world. You wouldn’t agree. There’s no committee, I am the president, and I am open. You can feel free to vote. We’ll fix it. If there’s no reason to do it other than he thinks it’s something bad he needs to do.
No, we’re not. We’re the team to have fun. It’s true. I’m a commercial sports director. You’re racing to get a certificate. That’s what you do. So, and, like, you can run a few thousand miles, you know, for lots of dollars. Or you can run up to 100, 000. That’s what you do. Half of the 10, 000, there was a huge change in the tax plan, you know.
So a couple of balls thrown. But it allows, like the everyday copy of us, or the little business owners that drive. Or a dude’s, like, that’s got his toys in the garage, he can get them out and come home. When he’s trapped, he’s gonna come home. And that’s, we’ve got to move along.
It’s a little bit of a, but yet we, having been all over this area, I feel very serious about it. There’s a lot of work involved. I feel comfortable for the modern cars. You know, it’s easy for us. It’s not complicated. Our, our roofing process is simple. It’s not complex. But yet I have reached the streamliners, belly tankers, farm track roofing.
I don’t care what level of support, the bikes and the tire warmers. We have everything worked out to where it works for everybody. That is the challenge. It’s good to be hospitable to the very one off, special built cars. You know, it’s easy to run cars that got air conditioning and cruise control. You know, I mean, a lot of these cars are so stock and on going.
He was about 5 miles on the floor one passing day. What happened? Oh, he said, you know, I got my steering wheel controls and I can hear your announcer on the FM and I can hear my speed. So, you know, I was trying to turn the volume up because I forgot to turn it up and I missed one of my shifts. And this thing’s ever been around 175 mile an hour.
Wow. You know, so it’s, it’s from that casual, comfortable to purpose built 250 mile an hour. Wow. You can push trucks. And that was one of my challenges, making sure that we were hospitable for everybody. And, as I said, Mr. Rogers got on because he wanted to honor everyone that existed. All the two guys. I did not know back when I did that if that afforded me to see the good and the bad and ugly or everyone that existed.
Wow. So it was like, alright, we’ve seen all the good and bad and ugly, let’s make the ugly list. Because that, everybody’s like, what was good? I’m not as focused on the good. What was the ugly? The bad. There’s those that we can’t do. Maybe I’m an oxymoron. What can be great? I don’t know. I will eliminate what can be bad.
If I’m getting rid of all the bad, it’s actually good. So, what other questions do you have? So, the A lot of people that are watching this, they may not even know that there’s racetracks around the world. So I’ve had this conversation with a lot of people when I was coming out here, they’re like, well, there are race tracks around us, because, okay, we know the race tracks that maybe you see on TV, right?
That’s pretty straightforward, but I tell people, do a Google search, see what’s around you. What kind of things would you tell to the, let’s just say, modern race track enthusiast that hasn’t really been out, they’ve seen it on TV a bit, they’re thinking about like, ah, is this for me? Like, what would you say to newbies, newbies to the, to the industry and to the sport?
Like you said, it’s just going to do that. But, the biggest thing is to find out what’s geographically the most convenient for you. Look up who the modifiers and tuners of your car are, the top ones in your area, because they’re the ones that are going to play. And they know where to go play. Because it’s, it’s like thinking that, you know, whether it’s car burners or whatever.
I’ve been very blessed to have a lot of success and a great network of people. As I tell people, I’m not smart, I’ve got to get rid of them. But, well, let’s just say corporate news. I can give you eight guys, and you can argue who’s best, but they’re all the same. Everybody says, who do I go to? I say, who do you want to go to?
There’s a huge benefit to something is wrong, the same as you’re going to put a trap in it. There’s no fun in picking a venue that you gotta travel to. I mean, I have people traveling for 20 hours. But still, to get started, there’s no fun in starting 20 hours in a venue. You want to find something within 3 to 4 hours, or 2 to 3.
And, you know, that’s how you get your feet wet without burning up the whole weekend sitting on the steering wheel. And the windshield time gets a little bit longer. Yeah, find your tuna shops or your family’s house or your vehicle. And ask them, where’s everybody going to have fun? What are they doing?
And once you get started, I don’t care what venue you go to, there will be guys there that do other stuff. And from there, it just sort of, the information just balloons from there. Closely, right? Whether that’s a drag strip, you know, a little backwards drag strip, or, you know, the finest rope. And don’t be afraid.
A lot of people are very nervous. And I hear it from some extremely, extremely successful people. I don’t know anything about it and I don’t want to look a fool and all that. Oh, I, believe me, I get it. I’m the guy that’s been three cars from the start and an owner decides, No, I want you to drive, jump in.
Oh, great, thanks. I guess we’ll figure it out. I Understand. Stay tuned. But you will not find that coverage, really. Everybody will help you. Everybody’s been there. And especially at our Ryan Speed Station. Because there’s no money, no purse. Everybody will help you. Because it’s all personal best. And there’s an addiction to it, because everybody’s like, Well, you can put your foot on the floor and get on the rail.
Yes, and no. Because you will find out what is in your shit point. Just, just what you can do in a seat can vary five days in a row. And as soon as somebody figures that out, well now the game is on. The game is on because I did that and I got through. And then one of the other, somebody else in the same car says, well I tried this and that got me another two.
And the game’s on. Yeah, it’s, it’s on. You’re mentally hooked. You’re just, you’ve been vaccinated. You know, and you’re just, you’re going to have to prove I I’m going to figure out something the rest of them didn’t figure out. And that’s a lot of it. The no purse makes it, the land speed side, the no purse makes it so different.
Because, you just, you get a certain feeling. But it’s, you know, all the distances are surveyed out. I mean, equipment is international quality. It’s used for our stuff, FIA events, you know, Olympic skiing, you name it. I’m pretty picky about making sure it’s on. That, there’s no fun doing it with somebody in the back.
You just keep what you did. bUt, again, like I said, find what’s closest to you. And go have fun, and just go visit. And even if you don’t think you know how to do it, guess what? There’ll be guys there that’ll say, bring your car around. Grassroots racing. This will take a minute. I’ll give an example of story.
I was on the way to Texas two, three weeks, one of to spend than right before than was right the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. I left to go to Texas to meet up with my wife at a friend’s house and help him with some stuff. I’m pulling a 38 foot open trailer behind the vehicle. Can I stop at 3 45 in the morning?
You get a gas, a little gas station, and the fuel pump goes on and off. I can’t get off the island. I’m in Little Rock, Arkansas. Oh, great. Yeah, well, yeah, we’ve been to worse states. You know, what are we going to do? There’s a motel section next to it. Call AAA. They come out, we get it off the island. And there is a vacant lot in this area.
So I get it parked there. We’re out of the way. Let’s figure out what we’re going to do. I’m going to get me a room. I’m going to get on Facebook. Make a post about, hey, who do I got close, who do I know, who do I know somebody, I got to figure out what I’m going to be, here’s the situation. How this evolved, and I knew none of these people, I knew none of them.
But they’re racers, they knew of me from ECTA and all that. By 7. 45 AM, one gentleman had picked up my trailer and took it with him, so I didn’t have to worry about moving again. And I had an appointment at the Lockheed Chevrolet dealership to be fixed that day, and I know you’re a big fan of it. And, 345 is what I used to start the truck.
The 330 I shipped to Montreal the other afternoon. And, that’s what I tell everybody. It’s a racing community. You can tell you’ve been a part of it, you don’t get it. But, it is, it is very much a brotherhood. And none of these gentlemen have ever been to my events. Never met one. And literally, you know what I’m saying?
Lord. Take the blessing. And I’ve lived in this world for a long time. Like some people, I’ve made the argument, Hey, you can bail me out if you want to. I had options, but One of my daughters saw it, a friend of hers, called me, Do you see your dad stranded in a rock? And I’m like, yeah, he’ll be fine. He’ll figure it out.
They go, yeah, we looked down at 330, we’re on the road. The embracing network, as you can see looking around the show here, Look at the diversity, and the countries, and everything else that’s here. But it’s a huge inspiration. Yeah. When I’m speaking, I’m like, Yeah. Once the adrenaline pressure hits, you can’t hide.
So really on a very good person. I don’t mean that negative. All walks of life, but everybody’s and everybody sees All, and that’s, he’s really behind us. As in motor spaces. You can’t, you can’t hide who you are when you, when you sleep, deprive your ego money, adrenaline stress, all those in. You can’t hide who you are.
Your real new comes out. Yeah. Sometimes the first time. We might blow off a little steam, but we’re still seeing current kind of power flow out of that steam room. We might blow up the gas, but that’s nothing different than starting to turn things up and being able to talk to people. And, I think that’s one of the things that keeps everybody in it.
And I guess there’s a business order. Why it’s hard to walk away because you can’t pay. Behind the scenes of a lot of other things in the book. And I look at these other people in clientele. I’m so grateful for who my network is. I can’t put up with this. I don’t have the patience. But it’s This is just a moment.
A friend of mine on his 60th birthday we actually had rehearsals for a few hours. And all these whole conferences and stuff. And I like this definition. Well, you know, in the interviews, the four of us, all his other lifelong friends, he goes, in your racing family, it’s like a fox who knows you. He says, you may not stay in close touch and you may not know the details of your life, but if you call, they’ll take the call, and if you need something, they’ll say, what do you need?
And that is, it is very true. Like, for example, me, my family, 12 miles later, I’m back on the road. You know, I’ve got an appointment at the GM’s, you know. No, no, he’s spoken yet. You know, the gentleman that grabbed my trailer is a service manager at a different brand, but he’s friends with the service manager there, so he texts him, sends him my VIN number, you know, takes a picture.
You know, like I said, he gets all these service guys out, let me have a talk with my lover, you know, get him in here, get it out of here. You know. So, Literally before 8 o’clock I got this call, AAA back here. I got my trailer going, lay flat there, grab my truck, get somewhere we’re going. But in the twist and turns of life, I just had to lie.
It’s my normal day. We hold up in the dealership in the front there. And as we pull up, the transformer out back blows up and we lose power. Ha ha! And I’m all good. They’ll get it fixed, you know what I mean? We’re going to go get some breakfast, you know what I mean? It doesn’t surprise me, you know what I mean?
It just, it won’t happen. I’m pretty much used to it. And that’s where we’ve got some of the customer base. Especially in the rallies and those stuff. And it’s not a negative comment. We get a lot of meals from all of these, We say hi to each other. Yeah, they’re brief guys. They have no idea what the conference is going to be.
You know, this thing, with Mexican rallies, I mean, it’s, it’s like Baja and Hogan. I mean, you are going to teach yourself stuff today. And they’ll be, you know, and they’ll be here at NASA, and they’re up against a wall, and a lot of our clientele has come from, you know, a competitive space. We’re broke. You know, we’re done.
We’re done. Go to bed. It’ll be ready in the morning. Well, they don’t, never mind, just go to bed. It may not be real pretty, but we got enough weapons with us. We can fix that. It may not be real pretty, but we can get you back on the road tomorrow. Look back at it. Nobody’s wasting money. It’s not, it’s not a challenge.
And here’s my perspective on it. You’ve invested 15, 000 to 30, 000 to get here. Yeah. Well, I’m going to. We gotta spend about a thousand to keep going. At this point, that’s kind of a neat point. Yeah. Let’s just fix it. We’ve learned how to get parts into Mexico overnight. That is having somebody as you back home on standby, because it takes two days to get them through customs, but you can do it.
We’ll be in Guadalupe tomorrow night. No, we’re buying your tickets. You go to the airport, you grab your parts, go to the airport, get on a plane and fly. Because you can walk in a few customers and you’ve got a box in there. But we can’t overnight in the unit much more. People, we did it one way. One year a friend of mine actually had to fly.
His engine builder flew his father down with, you know, parts for the Paris cylinder here. And it’s out there in the parking lot. And basically did a manual valve job and put a couple of guys in the center of the edge and went back on the car and went off.
But at this point, you do what you gotta do. So, how many books do you have? Oh man, Steve, we got a lot. And this has been a lot of fun, I have to tell you. Just getting an insight into your world, into racing, and also the community. So one of the things we talk about a lot at Mission Matters is community.
And that’s what we, you asked me a question earlier, which I’ll answer, is how did I get involved in this by accident? I wasn’t planning on, I was a finance guy, I wasn’t planning on on starting a book company, on starting like a media company, on, on sitting around, you know interviewing people. Now over 6, 000 users in, none of that was planned.
It was really this community built from what we were doing. The first book that I actually published, I didn’t even want to publish. I didn’t even know we were going to publish it. I put out this first book and others started asking me, Hey, how can you help us publish books? And I’m like, I don’t know how to publish books.
Like, I could run the industry myself, but I didn’t really know how to publish books. So then just this community evolved around it. And then I said, like you said in some of your earlier days, you just started saying yes, and then you say yes. And then you’re like, how did I get myself into this? We’re doing another thing and another thing.
And then I just did a lot of what you’re talking about, like same thing, just another business. But I just figured it out. I would argue that publishing a book is less complicated than putting together a book. Some of these vehicles, much less complicated in my opinion than that. But really, that’s how it started.
It was just saying yes, and then this community of individuals came around, and then more people, more people, now we publish. It’s a little over 400 authors, and we’re 6, 000 interviews in, and I’m really excited about this Motorsports book because, well, number one it’s bringing in a new community into what we’ve built, and I, I know a little bit about the Motorsports community because I grew up in that community.
My father owned an auto body shop in Michigan, so in Detroit, that’s where I’m from, and so I was always around cars my entire life. So always in my presence, this gives me the opportunity to now have an excuse to come out to events like this and to meet individuals like yourself and not again, get these stories out there.
Because in my opinion, the story is so powerful just to not only encapsulate in your legacy and what you’ve done and where you’ve been, but also so that the next generation that also wants to get involved in either racing or motorsports or otherwise, they know. Like, that’s a safe place. That’s a community.
That story that you told about the trailer? That’s like, that’s legendary. Like, to me, I’m like, I’m, I’m like, wow, I can’t, I can’t think of me being on the side of the road and anybody helping me, you know what I’m saying? Like, a stranger, and, and putting all these things together for me, like, that’s an amazing thing.
And to me, like, the community that you built around you, it’s not a, and it’s not a, I don’t think it’s an accident. I think that we attract people to ourselves and like, it’s Of course, but also same heart, you know, same heart, same vein, same type of individual, same authenticity. That’s one of the words that I like to use a lot is authenticity and bringing people together that are, you want to be with, right?
Like, who would you invite to your home for, for lunch or for dinner or who do you want to break bread with? So to me, that’s a very special thing and I want to just thank you for coming on our show, for of course being involved here. This is not going to be the last time that we talk. Any final words on how individuals, if they wanna follow up, follow your story, learn more about ECTA, like, how do people do that?
Just, you go to ECTAMILE, that’ll take you to the website, you can find links to me or whatever, whatever information you want. And I gotta add to my list here, as Pre Chief, I’ve got, I don’t know the exact number anymore, but over 200, over 20 people I’ve put in the 200 mile an hour zone. The look on their face is probably one of the greatest rewards I’ve ever gotten.
So now my question to you is, when are we doing it?
Yeah.
