Race Car Pic's
(Plus Others)

Son Don's first race car in 1970 which was this Quarter Midget with a Continental motor.  He did well in this car for about 2 years until he outgrew it. 

Son Don on his gocart about 1974.  Has a "box stock" Macullogh Motor, quick change gear box and ran on 10th mile dirt track.  He was very competitve and won regularly until he outgrew it and got too heavy according to the weight rules.

Coker family business.  Converted Shell ranch type 3 bay service station we leased in 1975 and purchased in 1981.  It was remodeled upon purchase into what it is in this picture.  Building still looks the same today.  We averaged 5000 service orders per year in this shop up until Son Don took over the business in about 1993.  Since he works it by himself, the number of work orders going into the computer has fallen some.  

Spook was our first cat and the picutre was taken in 1970.  I brought her home from the Sun Electric Corp Branch Office where I was a Sun Man at the time.  She would run around the house and act "Spooky" a lot so I named her Spook.  She was a very pretty cat with medium long silky hair.  Sad story about Spook though.  Spook got out one night when one of our girl's came home from a date without her noticing it and we never saw her again.  I must have roamed the neighborhood every time I had a chance for a at least 2 weeks looking for her but never found her. 

"Blackie" the cat at about 15 years old.  He passed away in about 1989 at age 17.  Blackie was really a nice gentle neutered male cat that was wife Gladys' favorite.  He had developed cataracts by the time this picture was taken and would bump into stuff when he would get in a hurry to get to his cat dish to eat.

There is a little story about Blackie that is a chuckle.   We had a female cat named "Spook" that was marked just like Blackie but had long hair.  I brought her home from the "Sun Electric Branch Office" where I worked at the time.  There was a male cat that used to prowl around our house that looked exactly like Blackie.  One day when Spook was in season, Gladys saw the male cat going by and went and grabbed up Spook and threw her out the front door (we never let her out otherwise) and said, "Go do your thing!!"  Spook had a litter of kittens shortly thereafter which included Blackie and Blackie became Gladys' favorite right from the beginning. 

"Snowball" the cat was mostly "Earl's" Cat.  He didn't like to be brushed and had all of his "faculties" including sharp claws, so he would have matted fur a lot except in the spring.  He died in about 1992 at about age 12.   He was found out in the street one night when I was coming home from plowing snow about 3 am.  I almost ran over him cause he looked exactly like a showball and I was about half asleep.   He had howled so much the night before when I picked him up, the next day he couldn't meow and just made a gargling sound when trying to meow.  I had to feed him with an eye dropper for about a week and teach him to drink so he must have been only 5-6 weeks old and not even  weaned yet.  

 
This is Tabbee, our present Feline.  He is about 8 years old now and is strictly an "inside" cat.  He is not too large of a cat and weighs about 8 lbs.   He was found on the doorstep of some friends (apparently abandoned) that lived "just barely" out in the country. We acquired him from them when he was about 6-8 weeks old.    He seems to be a very intelligent cat but sometimes tries to "run away" from his tail.  He will look back and see his tail wagging, bite at it and then run off somewhere and then apparently look back to see if it is still there.  When he see's his tail still back there, he will take off running again.  

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