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CM – Who are your sponsors and California Hot Rod Reunion, if I beat Transportation shut the freeway
are there any you particularly want him then Jason Rupert would win down and we learned the next day
to mention? the Championship. If Horan won, there were five wrecks in a half-mile
he would take home the title. Well, stretch and with one fatality.
JH – Clevite, Red Line Oil, we won and had my car and crew in
Mickey Thompson Tires, CP the winner’s circle at the same time CM – We know from your social
Carillo, Probell, Hussey Gaskets, with Jason’s. media posts that you have a lot
Original Roadhouse Grill in of non-drag racing hobbies and
Bakersfield, Three-Way Chevrolet CM – When I was racing, interests. Care to share what you
in Bakersfield, TMS Titanium occasionally there’d be something like to do on those days when
Metal Supply, CarWrap City, Pro- that happened while we were
Things and Best of Texas BBQ traveling. Got any of those “road the “One Bad Texan” stays in the
Sauce. stories” to tell us about? trailer?

CM – Tell us about your tow rig. JH – One time when we were in JH – I love to fish…all kinds.
Arizona, in the Parks area north of Flying, hunting, shooting sports,
JH – It’s a 2002 Kenworth Flagstaff, the U.S. Forestry Service RC boats, planes. Grilling and
T2000. The trailer is a 2000 53-foot was conducting a prescribed burn. smoking. Really anything outdoors!
Competition Trailer. Previously it The temperature had dropped Live music. I’ve been shooting
was the “Rockstar Energy Drink” which was keeping the smoke since I was five years old and have a
hauler belonging to Jerry Toliver. down. We came to a point where real passion for this just as I do with

CM - Any interesting, funny, or we had 10-feet of visibility and I ran drag racing.
disastrous racing stories you’d like into the back of a truck stopped in CM – We know that planes are a
to pass on to us? our lane. No one was hurt but there
was the concern about another big part of your life. What “big boy
JH – When it came down to the truck running into the back of toys” do you have parked in your
final against Dan Horan at the 2013 us. The Arizona Department of new hangar?

John standing in front of his new passion: Aerobatic-capable airplanes. Besides a 1975 Citabria and Steen Skybolt, his new hangar
also allows plenty of room for the race truck and trailer.

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