In the early seventies Duke, Bob Reynolds, Frank Power and myself attended the show and most of the time we would be working the show in some capacity or another. For some reason we ended up with some free time on the Saturday. We decided to go to the hotel, have a few wobbly pops and decide what we should do with our time. In the late sixties and early seventies, the place to stay was the Cadillac House Motel, it was right across the street from the Cobo Centre had a great bar that was always full of car people. After a few pops Ren suggested that we should visit Gratiot Auto Supply’s new shop, so after a couple more pops we hopped in Rens car and headed to Gratiot’s I don’t remember much about Gratiots but as we were leaving I remember yelling from the back “stop the car I’m going to be sick” of course REN wouldn’t stop and it must of been quite a site with the car door open head hanging out with Duke holding me by the belt loops and yelling “that a boy Chunk!”.
Hi Gary
Not only that I am proud to call you a friend of mine, I think it’s great that you would share your life stories with everyone.
Keep up the good work.
Jim McClean
I called Duke about 40 years later and apologized, and in typical Duke “speak” he said I was a little****late! I can hear him now…the world is not the same without that man…thanks for the memories!