Sam's a pretty cool dude, back in 2008 I went to Formula Drift for the first time at Englishtown. I've been doing photo/video work for a shop down in Cliffwood Beach called E-Shift Performance (they have a Viper in there now getting a TT build soon) and they had invited me to go with them since they had a display setup.
Well one of Mopar's media guys allowed me to hang out with them in the pits. It was way to cool. I got to talk to Sam for a bit, ask some questions and check out the car first hand.
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Sam and I met again, at Wall Speedway in June 09'. The Wall Speedway event was the last time Mopar was on the car as a main sponsor so the chrome you see on the front above was in a shade of gold. 4 months later in October, Shaun Carlson, the team manager and fabricator passed away. He built some amazing stuff.
Last year we all went back to Wall, I got to hang with the Hankook crew most of the day and for 2010, Sam started a brand new team with Dodge and they now have a Viper and a Challenger, with Sam in the Challenger and Andrew Comrie Picard in the Viper.
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I even got my car in there.
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--RS