There were on-board air jacks that instantly lifted the car, and there was a tunnel under the car that sucked the car down to the track. It was red and the nicest race car I had ever seen.

Dave White leased a grenade-engine to qualify with and Friday we swapped out the engine for one that was supposed to last for the 12 hours. A few hours into the Saturday 12 hour race, the race engine expired. The grenade engine that had gone into another car? ....it finished the race!

We were next to the pits of the factory Coca-Cola Porsches and our tent was beside their huge trailers. They had astroturf-covered plywood floors, windowed walls and lighting in the roof that sheltered their mechanics. After their sponsors and dignitaries had a catered lunch, we were told to help ourselves to some food since the caterers would take it away in ten minutes. We ate quickly and went back to swapping the engines.

It was longer than ten minutes, though as team by team, Porsche invited EVERYBODY that was racing a Porsche that year to also have lunch. We had worked a 23 hour (or 25 hour) day but the car was totally prepped before we left the track that night. We ate at a real restaurant and got 6 hours of sleep. The next day the crew was dragging but I was fired up! I had been going to USF plus working and getting 4 hours sleep nightly, so 6 hours to me was like sleeping all weekend!

I had also been helping a fatherless kid, Eric Hartley, with his Awana Scouts pine wood derby car. That Friday night when I called Brandon from the hotel, he had passed the weigh-in. The official scales were a little off but we had carved a "gas tank" into the body just in case, and Eric added lead shot under the "gas cap" until it was weight-legal.

Dave White's Crew Chief was Craig Peroutka and the team Publicist was John Bradley. I didn't know a lot about Porsches, but I could do what I was told to do. In 2014 Craig Peroutka was working at a machine shop in Sarasota County and helping Craig Ross with his Mustangs and a factory aluminum bodied Austin Healy 3000 race car.

When Dave White went out of the race early, we loaned the Coca-Cola Porsches our superior pit lighting and I want to think that helped them to win when it got dark.

Dave White's 935 had a slightly different body, more like the Martini car, although the side profile and the wing was the same. At one time, the rules in Europe said that the original rear window must be installed, but the original glass was located under the plastic window for streamlining. At that time, the rules said the body had to have the proper side profile but were pretty loose otherwise. You could look under the plastic rear window and see where the original glass window once was.

I saw Dave White about 2013 at Reeves Porsche Cars and Coffee in Tampa. Dave White Motorsports had become Vortex Motorsports and Dave was associated in some way with some of his former mechanics at a shop called Chilli's Motorsports.