Have you ever wondered...

[Lesracing]

Have you ever wondered… what happened to some of the traders you have dealt with in the past? Over many years, I have traded with so many different people from all over the US and other countries that I can’t remember everybody’s names, although I still have trade info from allot of them (yep, I’m a cyber packrat, lol). However, I often times think about some of the great friends I have made through the years that have just “faded away” from the hobby rather then plain old giving up collecting.

Going back several years ago at a ‘wild west’ trading site, I used to trade with a teenager named Jeremy Gordon (Sedtag). Jeremy was a Jeff Gordon collector and loved making trades for cards for his collections. But he found that as a teenager trying to collect racing cards of his driver, it was time consuming and expensive. However, Jeremy had big dreams, he wanted to be a race car driver and hoped to someday make it to the Nascar Cup Series.

One day, Jeremy made his decision to try and race for one season to see how he liked it and he was hooked. While he still hung around the trading site and made a few occasional trades, all of his time and money was taken up between school, buying a car and parts so that he could race at the local tracks. Working with his father’s help building, repairing and crewing, Jeremy raced his first season and loved it. During his first season, even though Jeremy wasn’t able to make allot of trades due to his finances, he posted updates after each race he had with details about how he did and what was on the schedule for the next race. I really enjoyed reading his comments and feelings about that last race and his goals for the upcoming race. He had a passion and it showed in his posts.

Sadly, after that site closed down, I lost contact with Jeremy. I had tried to contact him on numerous occasions but he must have gotten another email address. Just by a stroke of weird luck, I was going through some racing websites reading some interesting facts and came across info concerning Jeremy. It seems as he has done pretty well in the years since the days at the old Sheriff site.

“2008 hobby stock point champion Jeremy Gordon of Sedalia faced strong competition from Ronnie Livengood, also from Sedalia. Gordon ended up first at the finish line and secured his position of highest point holder of all divisions of the 2008 season.”

I found this as well as the season standings in this racingboys.com article here: http://www.racinboys.com/home/article_view/article/r_7903

It looks like Jeremy has earned some nice accolades during the 2008 season:

2008 hobby stock point award 1st place - Jeremy Gordon - Sedalia MO - 1154 points
2008 Perfect Attendance Award Jeremy Gordon - Sedalia MO

I may have some contact info for Jeremy now thanks to the help of the website mods and just maybe I can reunite with Jeremy as a friend, as well as a card collector for old time sake. This may just be the start of finding some of my old friends that I haven’t been in contact with for years. I still look forward to seeing him come up to the big time and would definitely add him to my collections. Then I could say… “I knew him back when he was just a kid collecting racing trading cards”.

I can’t speak for each of you, but I just wanted to say that I’m very thankful for having met each of you and having you as part of my life. Sometimes we take our hobby for granted and just think we are making a trade to get a card we need for our collections. Every time I make a trade, I’m doing more then just adding a card to my collection, but rather making a new friend that is helping me to grow my collections, but be a friend now and forever.

[race crazy]

sweet story Les! Yeah some of the best people on the planet are racing card collectors I think! This site along with nuts has been nothing but a positive for me! I used to think I was the only one who even cared about racing cards haha.

[nadeau01_johnson48]

I remember Jeremy!

You know, for some reason, his screenname came to mind a couple of days ago....I'm pretty sure he's on this site. I think I recall seeing him on the Current Users Online list.

[TheXsRacer]

Awesome PI work Les, I've dealt with Jeremy before too, and your right it would be cool to one day start a collection of his cards and say the guy on this card used to trade cards with me.

Thanks for sharing that....


BTW....His ID is sedtag1 on SCF

[Lesracing]

YES... I see that Jeremy is indeed here at SCF! Of course I must have missed his posts when he first came over. Now just where is my buddy??? lol

Thanks for that heads up. I'll send him a PM now!!!

[sedtag1]

Wow, I walked into this post and it made me smile more then Ive been able to smile since that last night of racing for me during the 2008 racing season. I was informed by email I had a message waiting for me on the board, but never would I have expected this. This is just too cool. Thankyou Les! I have missed all of you guys from previous boards tremendously. Back then that was my life, was making new friends and getting to know each and every one of you. And I enjoyed getting to share these exciting changes which have come about in my life.
However, I was saddened when the old bored closed, and I lost track of everything that had to do with trading. Id gotten busy with School.. working hard to get the grades that i desired to get passed my senior year. I also took on a good job for a youngster just looking to make a little extra money working at a grocerry store. But onlooking that, It has helped finance a great racing team. Ive been having a blast. And I am learning a lot of responsibility a long the way. I would ABSOLUTELY love to share some of my racing experiences with you guys. As this last year was incredible looking back. But the hard work that went into being at the track Fridays and Sundays everyweekend was exausting. But happy to say, it all payed off. The sponsorship help I recieved was amazing, as well as the support I recieved from friends and family. They helped me put this thing together and I could have never done it without them. And wwe wont stop here.. hopefully WE can keep going. I would love to up myself a few divisions in a few years when i can build up a good fund. But man, I tell you what, with the sparkel I get in my eyes, and the thump I get in my chest before a race, it is worth every penny!

Thanks again so much for this post les! I would love to try and keep anyone who is willing to listen informed on how things are going. I have videos as well as photos out of the WAZZOU from last year and previous years of my racing experiences.. and as Les said, there are always great sources on the internet that keep up with our local racetracks.

[ashley832]

Great story, Les! Thanks for sharing it. And HI JEREMY. :)

Ashley

[sedtag1]

If youall dont mind, I would love to add these pictures to the post. They are of me and my racecar that I ran during the 2008 Season. It was a Brand New Racecar at the beginning of the year built by 14th Street Motorsports.



However, I would also like to add this picture. It was taken as a Handout for all my sponsors and supporters throughout the season. It shows my New Collection of hardware in which I recieved for all my 2008 accomplishments.




And finally, Im not sure if youall will be able to access this, but it is the link to my myspace. I dont use it a whole lot, but i do post a lot of pictures from racing, as well as all my racing videos on there. So if you can access it, go check it out!

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endID=42414539

Enjoy =)

[Brickyard Jim]

Do you remember me Les :)

[ashley832]

If youall dont mind, I would love to add these pictures to the post. They are of me and my racecar that I ran during the 2008 Season. It was a Brand New Racecar at the beginning of the year built by 14th Street Motorsports.



However, I would also like to add this picture. It was taken as a Handout for all my sponsors and supporters throughout the season. It shows my New Collection of hardware in which I recieved for all my 2008 accomplishments.




And finally, Im not sure if youall will be able to access this, but it is the link to my myspace. I dont use it a whole lot, but i do post a lot of pictures from racing, as well as all my racing videos on there. So if you can access it, go check it out!

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endID=42414539

Enjoy =)

Very nice pictures. Thanks for sharing them!

Ashley